Chartier's conception of the author, object and text can be reconfigured for MU*s.
The new dynamic puts the student in the subject author's position. The MUSHspace itself
becomes object, and the text remains the same subject text.
The discourse remains the same, but students are forced out of their fourth point position and put into the authorial position. They have a vested interest as they are creators with a new object..a computer. The substitution of object computer encourages the student touch, read, and *interact* differently than with a object linear book. Students are not only responsible for what they read, but what and *how* they write.
This new relationship demands that the students interact to make the MUSH space work. Their creations, their participation, their dialogue, their persona, the rooms--all of these combine to envelop the students in a space where they cannot escape the requirements of dealing with text. In doing so, they become authors of a sort, they help to further along an ever-developing text, based on a text from the course.
