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Resource Center A Guide to Electronic and Printed References Hypertext
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http://www.eastgate.com 
Eastgate Systems Inc
| Eastgate Systems Inc., creates new hypertext technologies, including software for interactive writing, and publishes hypertext fiction and non-fiction: Also included are case studies of hypertext use, book reviews, conference reports. Sponsors 'Hypertext Kitchen,' fresh hypertext news daily. |
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp
W3C (www-consortium) Document Format Domain
| HyperText Markup Language Home Page (last update: 2001) |
http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush.shtml
As We May Think
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The idea of hypertext dates back to this visionary article of Vannevar Bush published in the Atlantic Monthly in July 1945 which described a mechanically linked information retrieval system. The linking of documents, especially those on the World Wide Web, is now essential for accessing information and building knowledge. More recent developments such as hyperlinks that adapt to the behavior of readers (which are used in cristalla.com?s courses) may be used to support effective learning.
In hypertext the boundaries between one piece of text and another, as well as between the author and the reader are shifted. In hypertext, both elements are critical; "hyper" allows us to link or relate one piece of knowledge to another. Information, and the knowledge resulting from it, can be understood in context. "Text" is the basis of knowledge, or as Steven Johnson puts it in his book "Interface Culture": "In a world dominated by icons and visual metaphors, the role of text ? letters and words, rather than images and animations ? has come to seem like an afterthought." |
Landow, George P. Hypertext 2.0. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
| Hypertext 2.0 is one of the best books dealing with the theory and literary underpinnings of hypertext. Included are discussions of hypertext and critical theory, reconfiguring the text and also reconfiguring the author, writing, narrative, and literary education, and the politics of hypertext.
The book deals in detail with the shifting of boundaries between the text author and the reader, showing how hypertext gives increased control to the reader; allowing learners to construct their own knowledge by following and associating hypertext documents. |
Johnson, Steven P. Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create & Communicate. San Francisco, CA: Basic Books, 1997.
| Interface Culture "is an extended attempt to think about the object world of technology as though it belongs to the world of culture, or as though these two worlds were united." The underlying theme of the book is that: "In a world dominated by icons and visual metaphors, the role of text ? letters and words, rather than images and animations ? has come to seem like an afterthought." Hypertext linking should not be thought of as an electrified table of contents, or as simply a supplement to the main text, but as starting points for new exploration and learning. |
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