How does hypertext change literacy practices? ...the relation between author and reader? ...the relation between writing and reading? ...the concept of text?
chip bruce
(chip@uiuc.edu)
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Subject Areas
| Educational Technology, Information Science, Language Arts, Social Studies |
Grade Levels
Unit Keywords
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hypertext, hypermedia,text,newlit |
Open Directory Category
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Reference/Knowledge_Management/Information_Overload/Hypertext/ |
Rationale of the Unit
Hyperlinks make possible new forms of text. For example, Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus , and now, The Complete Maus , on CD-ROM, says,
I think CD-ROMs imply a new kind of narrative...Instead of just moving through time, all of a sudden stories now move through space, so that architecture becomes the reigning metaphor". (Voyager,1994: 3Sixty [Catalog], Irvington, NY. |
Background and Resources
BACKGROUND
McEneaney, John E. (2000, November). A hypertext history in 36 nodes. Reading Online .
From Reading Online : This article, the first of an occasional invited series, is intended as a participatory exploration of online reading and writing. Ink to Link: A Hypertext History in 36 Nodes provides a broad overview of the 50-year history of hypertext. The article puts special emphasis on recent work in hypertext research, development, and authorship that has not typically been part of the numerous histories posted to the Web. A grid-like organizational network allows readers to follow conceptual themes (people, places, things, events, systems, and applications) or historical periods. READINGS -- texts, slides, audio/video
Bush, Vannevar (1945, July). As we may think. The Atlantic Monthly.
Charney, D. (1994). The impact of hypertext on processes of reading and writing. In S. J. Hilligoss & C. Selfe (Eds.), Computers and literacy (pp. 238-263). New York, NY: Modern Languages Association.
WEB SITES -- sites for exploration and interaction.
Joyce, M. (1987). Afternoon, a story.Cambridge, MA: Eastgate Press [Computer program].
Landow, George P. The Victorian Web
RESOURCES AND SUPPLEMENT MATERIALS
Beeman, W. O., Anderson, K. T., Bader, G. ,Larkin, J., McClard, A. P., McQuillan, P., & Shields, M. (1987). Intermedia: A case study of innovation in higher education. Providence, RI: Office of Program Analysis, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University.
Birkerts,S. (1994). The Gutenberg elegies: The fate of reading in an electronic age. Boston: Faber and Faber.
Bolter, J. (1991). Writing space: The computer, hypertext and the history of writing.
Landow, George P. (1989). Hypertext in literary education, criticism, and scholarship. Computers and the Humanities, 23, 173-198.
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