Cyborg dreams: from ergodics to electracy

This paper speculatively explores some of wider ramifications of introducing computer-based media into the academy, both as a teaching tool and as a type of media for study in its own right. It focuses on the experience of computer-induced liminal space and some of the psychological affects that result, including q-phasing and attention-deficit-type behaviour, and ponders what affect they have on learners. The paper postulates that use of this media may result in a new for of computer-based literacy, which Ulmer has called electracy. Such questions have broader implications for concepts of humanity and culture which the paper points towards.