Saturday, December 13, 2008

42. Siren Shapes, Joyce, 1995

  • Web-version of "hypertext" is much more limited then Nelson or Engelbart's ideas of hypertext were
  • There is still a lot of potential for what hypertext can do, will be used to do, in the future
  • Joyce thought of hypertext in two different environments:  "exploratory" and "constructive"
  • Constructive hypertext are "flexible representations of thoughts, stories, arguments, and everything else for which we use media."
  • Exploratory hypertexts are "former constructive hypertexts, now being experienced by a user/reader who is not an author of the work."  In other words, it is what the constructive is created for.

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