ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS
Interactive Reading, Early Modern Texts and Hypertext: A Lesson from the Past by Tatjana Chorney, St. Mary's University (Nova Scotia)
We hear a lot these days about the empowering shifts in readers' abilities to construct meaning and to change the "original" text made possible by new technology. But the phenomenon is at least as old as the early modern period, when it was used to good effect by writers like John Donne. Tatjana Chorney argues that "studying the dynamic of interactive reading is. . .not only a look back on past practice but also a model for studying integrative teaching and learning in a global world." 

Technology as Epistemology by Peter Schilling, Amherst College
Peter Schilling acknowledges that "To say 'new technology is changing the way we think' is as obvious as it is ambiguous." But he also probes