We write as musicians and fans who are also writing teachers; we feel we have contributions to make in the form of "sympathetic resonances" we have observed between music and writing, most especially as we consider ways both music and writing can be harnessed to question and subvert power, to understand and complicate genres and expectations, to foster community, and to project and shape identity.

This webtext explores the educational and social potential of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) by describing and analyzing the design, curriculum, and objectives of an ARG entitled S.E.E.D. This webtext uses some of the transmedia assets that made the game itself possible, as well as video documentation of the game, to provide an account of this genre and its affordances.

This multivocal webtext details one graduate class’s experiences creating Gregory L. Ulmer’s "mystory" projects fromInternet Invention(2003). As a result of their experiences, the authors find the mystory genre reveals to us the ways in which different discursive networks influence what we do, and do not, see both inside and outside the classroom.