FullContact Poetry MIT Media Lab全接触诗歌MT媒体实验室.doc

Full-Contact Poetry Anindita Basu B.A. (Honors) in Computer Science and English May 2000, Wellesley College Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Planning, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology September 2002 ? Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2002. All rights reserved. ____________________________________ AuthorAnindita BasuProgram in Media Arts and Sciences August 9, 2002 ____________________________________ Certified by David Cavallo Research Associate of the Media Laboratory Thesis Advisor ____________________________________Accepted by Andrew B. Lippman Chair, Departmental Committee on Graduate Students Program in Media Arts and Sciences Full-Contact Poetry Anindita Basu Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Planning, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology abstract Full-Contact Poetry is a digital play space for childrens poetic expression.? It is a software environment in which children can express their poetic thoughts, create their interpretations of writing by others and also share these expressions.? The environment combines ideas from literary theory and analysis with constructionism to extend tools for poetic expression.? Children can experience poetry by playing with words as objects, experimenting with typographic effects, moving words through space and navigating into and through the text, while also being able to incorporate and reconfigure sound and image. In this thesis, I first describe the Full-Contact Poetry environment then continue with a discussion of a workshop I led for six weeks with a small group of teenagers from Boston. The workshop raised many important issues that fall under the interconnected themes of: finding a voice