The Fourth Wall of Content
Content dealing with the subject of “us” vs. “them” in content delivery
I’ve long been interested in the concepts of how we manage the relationship between the creation and management of content and the consumption of content.
Breaking the Fourth Wall of Content
This was a discussion of concepts of “us” and “them” and to what extent we should break those rules.
What do we believe about the origins of the content we consume?
The Perennial Question of Diegetic Ludonarrative Kayfaybe
This was a definition of some weird terms that applied to the idea,.
Lately, I’ve been introduced to some fascinating words: Diegesis: this is the concept that audible noises in a narrative are sometimes “in” the story, meaning the characters can hear them, and sometimes they’re on the soundtrack, meaning only the viewers can hear them. (I wrote about this a bit…
Here are some other miscellaneous resources that relate –
The first few minutes of this talk from 2019 about how we essentially “lie for a living” because we hide the infrastructure and just show the user the output:
The Future Might Be Distributed
Some of the slides in this presentation discussing whether or not we should “pull back the curtain” and show the user the information structures that make up and manage the content they’re consuming.
Narrative Content: Storytelling Over Time
I also talked about it a bit deep into this post in the last postscript when I explained why I don’t like to process Markdown client-side: I like to hide my content source.
The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown