Traveling in the breakdown lane: a principle of resistance for hypertext.(Media Matters: Technologies of Literary Production)

From: Mosaic (Winnipeg) | Date: December 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

The World Wide Web uses hypertext, or non-sequential writing, to present its information to its users worldwide. Despite revolutionizing the writing process and earning praise from many writers, hypertext is viewed with skepticism by some writers, particularly those in the field of literature. Critics argue that using hypertext in literature could result in complex narratives which readers would find hard to understand.

In the mid-1980s, more than two decades after Theodor Nelson first broached the subject of "hypertext" or "non-sequential writing" (0/2), computer scientists finally ...

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