Critical theory and the challenge of new media / Jay David Bolter -- Seriously visible / Anne Frances Wysocki -- The dialogics of new media: video, visualization, and narrative in Red planet: scientific and cultural encounters with Mars / Helen Burgess, Jeanne Hamming, and Robert Markley -- Recovering the multimedia history of writing in the public texts of ancient Egypt / Carol S. Lipson -- Digital images and classical persuasion / Kevin LaGrandeur -- The word as image in an age of digital reproduction / Matthew G. Kirschenbaum -- Same difference: evolving conclusions about textuality and new media / Nancy Barta-Smith and Danette DiMarco -- Illusions, images, and anti-illustrations / Jan Baetens -- Cognitive and educational implications of visually rich media: images and imagination / Jennifer Wiley -- Feminist cyborgs live on the world wide web: international and not so international contexts / Gail E. Hawisher and Patricia Sullivan -- Unheimlich maneuver: self-image and identificatory practice in virtual reality environments / Alice Crawford -- Eloquent interfaces: humanities-based analysis in the age of hypermedia / Ellen Strain and Gregory VanHoosier-Carey -- Writing a story in virtual reality / Josephine Anstey