HYPERTEXT

This book by Mr. George Landow explores the technical revolution that Hypertext was in 1992 when this book was originally published.

Landow explores the main reasons as to why he believes that Hypertext is a gateway to future advances in reading and writing.

HOW IT HAS GROWN:

• It allows media to now be interactive
• The reader becomes more than just an audience
• There can be more than one author of the text
• There is no longer one ending and one beginning
• The text is not simply linear anymore

HOW IT HAS GROWN:

• Hypermedia, not only hypertext
• Hypertext is very natural
• It challenges conventions of teaching
• And conventions of learning
• It encourages self instruction

HOW IT HAS GROWN:

• It promotes exploration
• Allows access to networking
• Allows access to linking
• Requires readers to choose
• It is changing our future

There are many reasons as to why Landow sees that Hypertext is a transformation for the future of literacy. He compares it to the Gutenberg Printing Press. He believes that it is going to change the way that people read and write.

He sees Hypertext as a way of mass collaboration.

In this type of collaboration the reader can now become more than just a witness. The reader can add hypertext and/or hypermedia to the original text. They become the author as well. Now an online text can have multiple authors.

AN EXAMPLE BEING:

SOME OTHER EXAMPLES INCLUDE:

It changes not only the author but the shape of the text. It is multilinear with the different options that the reader gets to choose from by simply clicking on a hyperlink.

It allows for readers to make more decisions while they are reading a page with hypertext. They can choose where they want to go. It gives them the opportunity to learn more if they so desire.

Hypermedia changes the reader experience by adding videos, images, charts, etc. to the plain text on the web page.

IT IS CHANGING THE FUTURE

BY CASEY CORR AND REBECCA DECENZO

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