As readers of young-adult science fiction eagerly await the February 2013 publication of Cory Doctorow’s novel Homeland, the sequel to 2007’s Little Brother, student teams in my Fall 2012 Internet Culture course jumped the gun a bit by reading the excerpt and then creating machinima videos that continue the narrative in the virtual world Second Life. Accompanying each video is a website analyzing a topic as it appears within and without the first novel and the excerpt. Here are three examples of the collaborative analytical hypertext projects:
Flu Bug: Government Tracking in Today’s Digital Society
Hacktivism: Hacking for Social Justice and Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother
Surveillance and Civilian Tracking: An Analysis of Little Brother and Tracking in the USA