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In "Public Secrets," a hypertext essay by Sharon Daniels, we can see Delagrange's idea of remediation, Gilmore's trauma narrative, and Anzaldúa's "mestiza consciousness" very clearly. "Public Secrets" has the ultimate goal of abolishing prison systems a whole, by bringing the audience into the walls of a prison and listening the voices of the incarcerated women. This is meant to help the audience see the violence and corruption that really takes place in prisons, while attempting to eliminate many common beliefs and stereotypes regarding the incarcerated and personalize their stories. Delegrange's idea of remediation is present in the hypertext essay in that this essay is taking multimedia tools and using them as a platform to teach and inform. Delegrange strongly believes that the transformation of digital media and remediation, when used properly, can be strongly influential in this new digital age. In this essay, we are taught these wo...

Landon Gay Class 4/5/18 Preparation Hypertext Sharon Daniels “Public Secrets” highlights the narratives of women in the public justice system and some of the violence experienced in this system. There was a specific quote that stated how women are giving lengthier sentences for committing the same crimes as a man. Other women state how dehumanized and objectified they felt. One quote in particular states that a woman’s name is Genea and she would like to be known as that. This implies the naming system of inmates and how dehumanizing a number can be as if that individual is known as nothing more than the crime she committed that placed her into a cell. Thinking about Anzaldua’s “Mestiza way”, these women are citizens of their own country, in a justice system that is meant to correct and not purely imprison for the sake of imprisoning and the overall tone I get from this hypertexts is the alienated feeling these women are experiencing. As a prisoner in ...

Gilmore's idea of "trauma discourse" can envelop many different kinds of trauma across the world. The hypertext project BeyondPrison brings to light the traumas that those in prison go through, as well as the traumas caused by those who have been incarcerated and then released, causing more traumas and crimes to occur. By using programs likes GRIP (Guiding Rage Into Power), inmates' traumas can be redirected, lessening the trauma to themselves and those around them. Those who have participated in projects like this that seek to lessen trauma have improved substantially and most have not returned to prison for follow-up crimes, clearly showing a decrease in traumas for all those involved. A trauma narrative explains the trauma a group or individual goes through and how they can overcome it by sharing discourse around, usually through a published text so the circulation allows for others to understand their trauma narrative. Projects like BeyondPrison can educate thos...

“Public Secrets” by Sharon Daniels and “The Mestiza Way” by Gloria Anzaldúa: a new race of all colors and a new gaze within the matrix of incarceration             Sharon’s Daniel’s prison project deals with a complete deconstruction of the prison system as a social system for isolating and compartmentalizing individuals through social death. She reveals this by creating a maze-like framework that visitors can use to explore a web-based interface that is based off of her case study of three prisons within the Chowchilla area. This is where she examines two of the largest female prisons within the state of California. Her web based interface is set up in which she has set up her own voice interviews for thirty other people. Through maneuvering the complex framework people can explore the interior levels and exterior overlays of the prison system itself and be navigated towards its cells and interact with inmates through...

In "Public Secrets," a hypertext essay by Sharon Daniel, we can observe Delagrange's ideas of remediation in media at work in Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practice in a Digital World . She values digital platforms as enhanced learning tools, saying that "Digital multimedia provide a public space where traditional alphabetic textual authority bumps up against embodied, sensory, pedagogical performance" (Delagrange 22). This hypertext essay incorporates both hypertext and essay, melding two genres into one on a unique program. Delagrange says that this will change the way we look at both original mediums as we combine them. "The process of remediation is bi-directional; not only are the design, structure, and use of a new medium initially patterned on it's predecessor, but as the new medium evolves, it in turn influences (re-mediates) the design, structure, and use of the previous medium" (Delagrange 23). By using this enhanced form of delive...

BeyondPrison is a website that presents a human rights discussion on the prison system in America. They highlight seven programs who function to assist with rehabilitation of those are incarcerated and at risk youths. The targeted audiences of these programs are generally specific to a particular gender/age group. This range of audience includes incarcerated men, incarcerated women, youth in detention centers and alternative high schools. This webpage incorporates text with interactive scrolling, videos, images, and audio. This allows for an engaging interaction with whoever decides to explore  BeyondPrison .  This platforms seems to want to bring attention to these rehabilitation programs while highlighting the need for more empathy when dealing with the individuals who fall victim to circumstance that lead them to the potential entrapment of the prison system. Susan Delagrange discuses Embodiment in chapter three of Technologies of Wonder: Digital Practic...