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Extraordinary Discourse 008

Applied to cultural heritage asset presentation, this non-linear, many-to-many model of communication has the potential to significantly impact the dominant modes of representation, most notably that of the linear, expository narrative. ... Of particular relevance here is the Australian Aboriginal storytelling tradition in which territory is not perceived of as a piece of land enclosed within borders but rather as "an interlocking network of 'lines' or 'ways through'" (Chatwin 1987). Sung into existence by the ancestors, these stories actually function as maps of their terrain that can be augmented by travelers to account. Interactive in the beginning with the advent of the written medium, storytelling, however, evolved into a non-interactive narrative style. ... In the primitive digital sense, technology like hyperlinking allows the weaving of myriad paths through an otherwise linear presentation... ... While having identified a problem regardi