At Buenos Aires University my senior research thesis was the design and production of a hypermedia version of the first part of Genesis. This interactive hypertext was motivated by the belief that the Bible is an open and dynamic story-telling book that can be navigated according to a socio-historical context and by cognitive styles and exploratory instincts of the learner.

My main goal was to design a technological tool that can help people get a sense of their religious identity as a constructed everyday process and not as a given, static fact. The hypertext system, which I've called "Genesis to build up", was incorporated by Rabbi Sergio Bergman, into Emanu-El Reform Jewish Community where I have worked for more than five years as a volunteer educator.

In Memory of the victims of the terrorist attack to the AMIA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the 18 th July 1994.


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Marina Umaschi Bersmarinau@media.mit.edu