The advent of the digital revolution--specifically the Internet--apparently confirms both Jean Luc Godard's belief in the "end of cinema" and other critics' claims that we have entered a "post-television age" owing to the VCR, cable and satellite technologies. Moreover, the recent arrival of the laser disk, CD-ROM, DVD and virtual reality imagining systems present even more formidable challenges not only to traditional media industries, but to film studies' pedagogical methodologies. To keep pace with this unprecedented paradigm shift in media production and consumption, the field of cinema and TV studies must reinvent itself and confront some of its primary assumptions. This paper will explore my concept of "digitextuality" as one means of theorizing, analyzing and teaching this transformed media landscape currently being described as the "convergence industries." 

By using Cyberperformance as a creative combination of cyberspace, metaspace, and deepspace, the organic professor on the inorganic net seeks to develop a theatrical ritual with students as performers that fulfills a pedagogical objective, ritualizes conflicts in the academic community, and heals the breaches with catharsis and redressive action. The paper will document Cyberperformance I: Humans and Nature, Cyberperformance II: Self versus State, Cyberperformance III: Educational versus Commercial Web Development, Cyberperformance IV: Heat Wave 99: Characters Sizzling in Time, and Cyberperformance V: The Century: Laugh!! From 2000 Years of Jokes and Mistakes. Cyberperformance will be discussed as a genre-in-transition which helps create performative strategies and arenas for online and cyber-enhanced learning.