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J. Yellowlees Douglas

April 16, 2024

Jane Yellowlees Douglas (born J. Yellowlees Douglas; June 25, 1962) is a pioneer author and scholar of hypertext fiction. She began writing about hypermedia in the late 1980s, very early in the development of the medium. Her 1993 fiction I Have Said Nothing, was one of the first published works of hypertext fiction.

J. Yellowlees Douglas
Born (1962-06-25) June 25, 1962 (age 61)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
New York University
Scientific career
FieldsManagement Communication
InstitutionsUniversity of Florida
Holy Names University

Early life and education edit

Douglas was born June 25, 1962, in Detroit, Michigan. She did not have a first name apart from the initial 'J.' but found that it was misstated so often that she adopted "Jane' as her first name.[1][2][3]

She completed her undergraduate studies in English language and literature at the University of Michigan in 1982, where she went on to get an M.A in cinema and literary theory. She received her Ph.D. in English and education from New York University in 1992.[2][3][1]

Her Ph.D. dissertation, "Print pathways and interactive labyrinths: How hypertext narratives affect the act of reading," was supervised by Gordon M. Pradl. She spent a year as a research fellow at Brunel University in London examining the ways in which hypertext affects the construction of digital technologies.[2][3][1]

Career edit

In academia, Douglas has been the director of the program in professional writing and an assistant professor of English at Lehman College. She is presently Associate Professor of Management Communication in the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida.[2][3]

Douglas was a contestant on Jeopardy! on March 8, 2013.[2] In interviews and forum postings about this experience, Douglas revealed that her godmother is the actress Maggie Smith.[1]

Douglas has founded and directed four writing programs at the University of Florida.[4]

Writings edit

Douglas has written over two dozen articles, short stories, and a book about the development, structure, and uses of hypertext. In a 1991 article—quite early in the development of hypertext as a new literary medium—she argued for hypertext as offering an alternative to an "either/or" view of reality in the form of an "and/and/and" structure.[5]

In her 2000 book, The End of Books or Books Without End, she examines how interactive fiction works and discusses the current state of hypertext criticism, arguing that hyptertext authors are the natural heirs of early 20th century experimental modernists like James Joyce.[3][6]

In "What Hypertexts Can Do That Print Narratives Cannot", Douglas goes into more detail about how hypertext fiction works as a literary form. Critics have noted acerbity as a characteristic of Douglas's writing as she "makes plain her frustration that hyperfiction works and their writers are still not considered part of the canon."[3]

Douglas is recognized for having discovered a node in Michael Joyce's hypertext novel Afternoon: a story that had no inbound links. In discussions about the novel, the node became known as "Jane's space" because she was the first to remark on its orphan status. She became implicated in revisions to this node, which originally (1987 edition) featured only a single phrase from Jung, "Man... never perceives anything", but later (1990 edition) included a second line: "and only Jane Yellowlees Douglas has read this line".[7]

Douglas's hypertext fiction I Have Said Nothing is book-ended by two car crashes and the resulting deaths. Douglas's goal was to use the fragmentations of hypertext to explore both causality and the enormous gulfs that separate people from one another. Designed in Storyspace, the work offers readers a variety of strategies for navigation: a cognitive map, links in the text, a default narrative line, and a navigation menu of available paths.[8]

Selected publications edit

  • The Readers Brain. How Neuroscience can make you a Better Writer, Cambridge 2015.
  • “The Pleasures of Immersion and Engagement: Schemas, Scripts, and the Fifth Business.” In First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. (essay; with Andrew Hargadon)
  • The End of Books or Books Without End. University of Michigan Press, 2000 (book)
  • “The Three Paradoxes of Hypertext: How Theories of Textuality Shape Interface Design.” In The Emerging CyberCulture: Literacy, Paradigm, and Paradox. Stephanie B. Gibson and Ollie Oviedo, eds. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000. (essay)
  • "I Have Said Nothing". Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext, vol. 1, no. 2, 1993. Republished in Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology. Paula Geyh, Fred G. Lebron, and Andrew Levy, eds. New York: Norton, 1997. (short story)
  • “'But When Do I Stop?'" Closure and Indeterminacy in Interactive Narratives.” In Hyper/Text/Theory, George Landow, ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994:159–188. (essay)
  • "The Act of Reading: the WOE Beginners' Guide to Dissection". Writing on the Edge, vol. 2, no. 2, 1991. (essay)
  • “Social Impacts of Computing: The Framing of Hypertext—Revolutionary for Whom?” Social Science Computer Review 11.4 (Winter 1993): 417-429.
  • “Dipping into Possible, Plausible Worlds: the Experience of Interactivity from Virtual Reality to Interactive Fiction,” TDR, The Drama Review: The Journal of Performance Studies 37.4 (T140) Winter 1993: 18-37. (essay)
  • “Making the Audience Real: Using Hypertext in the Writing Classroom,” Educators’ Tech Exchange 1.3 (Winter 1994): 17-23. (essay)
  • “Plucked from the Labyrinth: Intention, Interpretation and Interactive Narratives,” Knowledge in the Making: Challenging the Text in the Classroom. Eds. Bill Corcoran, Mike Hayhoe and Gordon M. Pradl. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994: 179-192. (book chapter)
  • “Technology, Pedagogy, or Context? A Tale of Two Classrooms,” Computers & Composition: 11 (1994): 275-282. (essay)
  • “Virtual Intimacy and the Male Gaze Cubed: Interacting with Narratives on CD-ROM.” Leonardo 29.3 (1996): 207-213. (essay)
  • “Abandoning the Either/Or for the And/And/And: Hypertext and the Art of Argumentative Writing,” Australian Journal of Language and Literacy 19.4 (1997): 305-316. (essay)
  • “Will the Most Reflexive Relativist Please Stand Up? Hypertext, Argument, and Relativism,” Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Age. Ed. Ilana Snyder. Sydney: Allen & Unwin and New York: Routledge, 1997: 144-162. (essay)
  • Hugh Davis, Jane Yellowlees Douglas, David Durand, Hypertext ’01: Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), January, 2001. (essay)
  • Andrew Hargadon and Yellowlees Douglas, “When Innovations Meet Institutions: Edison and the Design of Electric Light.” Administrative Science Quarterly 46 (3), September 2001: 476-502. (essay)
  • “Here Even When You’re Not: Teaching in an Internet Degree Program.” Silicon Literacies. Ed. Ilana Snyder. New York: Routledge, 2002. (book chapter)
  • “Doing What Comes Generatively: Three Eras of Representation.” Theorizing the Matrix. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2003: 58-76. (book chapter)
  • Paul Fishwick, Yellowlees Douglas, and Timothy Davis, “Model Representation with Aesthetic Computing: Method and Empirical Study.” ACM TOMACS: Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 15 (3) 2005: 254-279. (essay)
  • “What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot,” in Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. Eds. Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005: 443-471. (essay)
  • Writing As A Survival Skill: How Neuroscience Can Improve Writing In Organizations,” American Journal of Business Education 5 (6), September/October 2012: 597-608. (essay)
  • “How Plain Language Fails to Improve Organizational Communication: A Neuro-cognitive Basis for Readability,” Journal of International Management Studies 7(2), October, 2012. (essay)
  • John Petersen and Yellowlees Douglas, “Tenascin-X, Collagen, and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: Tenascin-X Gene Defects Can Protect against Adverse Cardiovascular Events.” Medical Hypotheses 81 (3) (September 2013): 443-447. (essay)
  • “Producing Something from Nothing: The First Conversation of Innovation—with Yourself,” The Journal of Global Business Management, Vol. 10 (1), April 2014: 107-120. (essay)
  • Yellowlees Douglas and Samantha Miller, “Availability Bias Can Improve Women’s Propensity to Negotiate,” International Journal of Business Administration 6(2) 2015: 86-95. (essay)
  • Yellowlees Douglas and Samantha Miller, “Syntactic Complexity of Reading Content Directly Impacts Complexity of Mature Students’ Writing,” International Journal Business Administration 7 (3) (May 2016): 62-71. (essay)
  • “The Real Malady of Marcel Proust and What It Reveals about Diagnostic Errors in Medicine,” Medical Hypotheses 90 (16) 2016: 14-18.
  • “Top-Down Research, Generalists, and Google Scholar: Does Google Scholar Facilitate Breakthrough Research?” Open Access Library Journal 3 (May) 2016: 1-8. (essay)
  • Yellowlees Douglas and Samantha Miller, “Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of Reading Correlates with Complexity of Writing in Adults,” International Journal Business Administration 7 (4) (June 2016): 1-10. (essay)
  • “The Power of Paradox: How Oppositional Schemas Enhance Recall in Organizational Communication,” International Journal Business Administration 8 (3) (May) 2017: 45-55. (essay)
  • Yellowlees Douglas and Andrew Hargadon, “From Domestication to Differentiation and Back Again: How Design Spurs and also Limits Innovation,” The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Eds. Sebastian Henn, Harald Bathelt, Patrick Cohendet, and Laurent Simon. London, UK: Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 2017. (book chapter)
  • Yellowlees Douglas and Maria B. Grant, The Biomedical Writer: What You Need to Succeed in Academic Medicine. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. (book)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Friday, March 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion, jboard.tv; accessed December 14, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e Mescon, Jenna (March 5, 2013). "UF professor to be 'Jeopardy!' contestant". University of Florida.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Pullinger, Kate. "The End of Books 1" July 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, trAce Online Writing Center, August 16, 2002.
  4. ^ "Yellowlees Douglas, PhD". Holy Names University. March 1, 2023. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
  5. ^ Joyce, Michael. "Notes Toward an Unwritten Non-Linear Electronic Text, "The Ends of Print Culture" (a work in progress)". Postmodern Culture 2.1 (1991); accessed December 14, 2017.
  6. ^ "The End of Books by J. Yellowlees Douglas". Eastgate.com. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  7. ^ Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, MIT Press, 2012.
  8. ^ Yellowlees Douglas, Jane. "Are We Reading Yet? A few suggestions for navigation". I Have Said Nothing. Norton. Retrieved October 23, 2017.

External links edit

  • J. Yellowlees Douglas Biography
  • Jane Y. Douglas Contact Information at Readersbrain.com
  • "I Have Said Nothing" by J. Yellowlees Douglas

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Jane Yellowlees Douglas born J Yellowlees Douglas June 25 1962 is a pioneer author and scholar of hypertext fiction She began writing about hypermedia in the late 1980s very early in the development of the medium Her 1993 fiction I Have Said Nothing was one of the first published works of hypertext fiction J Yellowlees DouglasBorn 1962 06 25 June 25 1962 age 61 Detroit Michigan U S Alma materUniversity of MichiganNew York UniversityScientific careerFieldsManagement CommunicationInstitutionsUniversity of FloridaHoly Names University Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Writings 3 Selected publications 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksEarly life and education editDouglas was born June 25 1962 in Detroit Michigan She did not have a first name apart from the initial J but found that it was misstated so often that she adopted Jane as her first name 1 2 3 She completed her undergraduate studies in English language and literature at the University of Michigan in 1982 where she went on to get an M A in cinema and literary theory She received her Ph D in English and education from New York University in 1992 2 3 1 Her Ph D dissertation Print pathways and interactive labyrinths How hypertext narratives affect the act of reading was supervised by Gordon M Pradl She spent a year as a research fellow at Brunel University in London examining the ways in which hypertext affects the construction of digital technologies 2 3 1 Career editIn academia Douglas has been the director of the program in professional writing and an assistant professor of English at Lehman College She is presently Associate Professor of Management Communication in the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida 2 3 Douglas was a contestant on Jeopardy on March 8 2013 2 In interviews and forum postings about this experience Douglas revealed that her godmother is the actress Maggie Smith 1 Douglas has founded and directed four writing programs at the University of Florida 4 Writings edit Douglas has written over two dozen articles short stories and a book about the development structure and uses of hypertext In a 1991 article quite early in the development of hypertext as a new literary medium she argued for hypertext as offering an alternative to an either or view of reality in the form of an and and and structure 5 In her 2000 book The End of Books or Books Without End she examines how interactive fiction works and discusses the current state of hypertext criticism arguing that hyptertext authors are the natural heirs of early 20th century experimental modernists like James Joyce 3 6 In What Hypertexts Can Do That Print Narratives Cannot Douglas goes into more detail about how hypertext fiction works as a literary form Critics have noted acerbity as a characteristic of Douglas s writing as she makes plain her frustration that hyperfiction works and their writers are still not considered part of the canon 3 Douglas is recognized for having discovered a node in Michael Joyce s hypertext novel Afternoon a story that had no inbound links In discussions about the novel the node became known as Jane s space because she was the first to remark on its orphan status She became implicated in revisions to this node which originally 1987 edition featured only a single phrase from Jung Man never perceives anything but later 1990 edition included a second line and only Jane Yellowlees Douglas has read this line 7 Douglas s hypertext fiction I Have Said Nothing is book ended by two car crashes and the resulting deaths Douglas s goal was to use the fragmentations of hypertext to explore both causality and the enormous gulfs that separate people from one another Designed in Storyspace the work offers readers a variety of strategies for navigation a cognitive map links in the text a default narrative line and a navigation menu of available paths 8 Selected publications editThe Readers Brain How Neuroscience can make you a Better Writer Cambridge 2015 The Pleasures of Immersion and Engagement Schemas Scripts and the Fifth Business In First Person New Media as Story Performance and Game Noah Wardrip Fruin and Pat Harrigan eds Cambridge MA MIT Press 2004 essay with Andrew Hargadon The End of Books or Books Without End University of Michigan Press 2000 book The Three Paradoxes of Hypertext How Theories of Textuality Shape Interface Design In The Emerging CyberCulture Literacy Paradigm and Paradox Stephanie B Gibson and Ollie Oviedo eds Cresskill NJ Hampton Press 2000 essay I Have Said Nothing Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext vol 1 no 2 1993 Republished in Postmodern American Fiction A Norton Anthology Paula Geyh Fred G Lebron and Andrew Levy eds New York Norton 1997 short story But When Do I Stop Closure and Indeterminacy in Interactive Narratives In Hyper Text Theory George Landow ed Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 1994 159 188 essay The Act of Reading the WOE Beginners Guide to Dissection Writing on the Edge vol 2 no 2 1991 essay Social Impacts of Computing The Framing of Hypertext Revolutionary for Whom Social Science Computer Review 11 4 Winter 1993 417 429 Dipping into Possible Plausible Worlds the Experience of Interactivity from Virtual Reality to Interactive Fiction TDR The Drama Review The Journal of Performance Studies 37 4 T140 Winter 1993 18 37 essay Making the Audience Real Using Hypertext in the Writing Classroom Educators Tech Exchange 1 3 Winter 1994 17 23 essay Plucked from the Labyrinth Intention Interpretation and Interactive Narratives Knowledge in the Making Challenging the Text in the Classroom Eds Bill Corcoran Mike Hayhoe and Gordon M Pradl Portsmouth NH Boynton Cook 1994 179 192 book chapter Technology Pedagogy or Context A Tale of Two Classrooms Computers amp Composition 11 1994 275 282 essay Virtual Intimacy and the Male Gaze Cubed Interacting with Narratives on CD ROM Leonardo 29 3 1996 207 213 essay Abandoning the Either Or for the And And And Hypertext and the Art of Argumentative Writing Australian Journal of Language and Literacy 19 4 1997 305 316 essay Will the Most Reflexive Relativist Please Stand Up Hypertext Argument and Relativism Page to Screen Taking Literacy into the Electronic Age Ed Ilana Snyder Sydney Allen amp Unwin and New York Routledge 1997 144 162 essay Hugh Davis Jane Yellowlees Douglas David Durand Hypertext 01 Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia New York Association for Computing Machinery ACM January 2001 essay Andrew Hargadon and Yellowlees Douglas When Innovations Meet Institutions Edison and the Design of Electric Light Administrative Science Quarterly 46 3 September 2001 476 502 essay Here Even When You re Not Teaching in an Internet Degree Program Silicon Literacies Ed Ilana Snyder New York Routledge 2002 book chapter Doing What Comes Generatively Three Eras of Representation Theorizing the Matrix Lewisburg PA Bucknell University Press 2003 58 76 book chapter Paul Fishwick Yellowlees Douglas and Timothy Davis Model Representation with Aesthetic Computing Method and Empirical Study ACM TOMACS Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 15 3 2005 254 279 essay What Interactive Narratives Do That Print Narratives Cannot in Essentials of the Theory of Fiction Eds Michael J Hoffman and Patrick D Murphy Durham NC Duke University Press 2005 443 471 essay Writing As A Survival Skill How Neuroscience Can Improve Writing In Organizations American Journal of Business Education 5 6 September October 2012 597 608 essay How Plain Language Fails to Improve Organizational Communication A Neuro cognitive Basis for Readability Journal of International Management Studies 7 2 October 2012 essay John Petersen and Yellowlees Douglas Tenascin X Collagen and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Tenascin X Gene Defects Can Protect against Adverse Cardiovascular Events Medical Hypotheses 81 3 September 2013 443 447 essay Producing Something from Nothing The First Conversation of Innovation with Yourself The Journal of Global Business Management Vol 10 1 April 2014 107 120 essay Yellowlees Douglas and Samantha Miller Availability Bias Can Improve Women s Propensity to Negotiate International Journal of Business Administration 6 2 2015 86 95 essay Yellowlees Douglas and Samantha Miller Syntactic Complexity of Reading Content Directly Impacts Complexity of Mature Students Writing International Journal Business Administration 7 3 May 2016 62 71 essay The Real Malady of Marcel Proust and What It Reveals about Diagnostic Errors in Medicine Medical Hypotheses 90 16 2016 14 18 Top Down Research Generalists and Google Scholar Does Google Scholar Facilitate Breakthrough Research Open Access Library Journal 3 May 2016 1 8 essay Yellowlees Douglas and Samantha Miller Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of Reading Correlates with Complexity of Writing in Adults International Journal Business Administration 7 4 June 2016 1 10 essay The Power of Paradox How Oppositional Schemas Enhance Recall in Organizational Communication International Journal Business Administration 8 3 May 2017 45 55 essay Yellowlees Douglas and Andrew Hargadon From Domestication to Differentiation and Back Again How Design Spurs and also Limits Innovation The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation A Multi Disciplinary Approach Eds Sebastian Henn Harald Bathelt Patrick Cohendet and Laurent Simon London UK Elgar Publishing Ltd 2017 book chapter Yellowlees Douglas and Maria B Grant The Biomedical Writer What You Need to Succeed in Academic Medicine Cambridge UK and New York Cambridge University Press 2018 book See also editElectronic literatureReferences edit a b c d Friday March 8 2013 Game Recap amp Discussion jboard tv accessed December 14 2017 a b c d e Mescon Jenna March 5 2013 UF professor to be Jeopardy contestant University of Florida a b c d e f Pullinger Kate The End of Books 1 Archived July 6 2013 at the Wayback Machine trAce Online Writing Center August 16 2002 Yellowlees Douglas PhD Holy Names University March 1 2023 Retrieved March 1 2023 Joyce Michael Notes Toward an Unwritten Non Linear Electronic Text The Ends of Print Culture a work in progress Postmodern Culture 2 1 1991 accessed December 14 2017 The End of Books by J Yellowlees Douglas Eastgate com Retrieved March 8 2014 Kirschenbaum Matthew G Mechanisms New Media and the Forensic Imagination MIT Press 2012 Yellowlees Douglas Jane Are We Reading Yet A few suggestions for navigation I Have Said Nothing Norton Retrieved October 23 2017 External links editJ Yellowlees Douglas Biography Jane Y Douglas Contact Information at Readersbrain com I Have Said Nothing by J Yellowlees Douglas Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title J Yellowlees Douglas amp oldid 1217870202, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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