Infer: Hypertext generates a distinctive network structure that has become a new form of writing and reading. Hypertext is non-linear. It gives the reader multiple paths to choose from and allows them to move in and out of the original text they're reading from. Bolter explains electronic hypertext is not the end of print, but instead the remediation of print.
Questions:
1. What are the negatives of hypertext?
2. Do you think hypertext improves the reading experience?
3. Do you think there are cons for having "too much" information?
4. Why did you say "your mind goes blank with too much information"? With all the that information don't you have much more of a variety of choices to pick of what you are learning on the topic?
5. With all these hyperlinks, how do you know for sure if what you are clicking on contains facts?
Response to Question 5:
ReplyDeleteWith all hyperlinks and paths throughout the electronic writing space, we can never be sure that we're consuming is actually useful to a specific task. It's simply new information. Whether that information is factual or not, is a different thing entirely. However, the same could be said in regards to printed writing. How can we ever be certain that a writer does not have a bias or slanted view? Is this information as current as possible? To combat this, we need multiple sources. Second opinions, if you will. And that's the beauty of hypertext. It provides us to easily search out second, third, and fourth opinions. Different views and different presentations that allow us to discover the truth ourselves.
2. I think hypertext improves the reading experience because it opens doors to a new interaction between the reader and what he or she is reading.
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ReplyDeleteI feel that because of the endless links it is very easy to get lost and stray away from the originally intention for using the internet. I also feel that as the reader you have to pick through which information is useful and which isn't. However, I don't think that there is necessarily to much information, I feel that with the abundance of information out there you might be able to find or learn something that you would have never thought about before.