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Lesson 4.2 Text and Context Connections: Hypertext: What's New

The document discusses hypertextuality and how it differs from linear text. Hypertextuality allows readers to navigate text non-linearly by following links between related pieces of information. This gives readers more flexibility to determine their own path and find information relevant to their interests, as opposed to a predefined linear order. Hypertext links topics on a screen to related information, graphics, videos and music through clickable links. Readers can freely explore different directions by following links within the text.

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Lesson 4.2 Text and Context Connections: Hypertext: What's New

The document discusses hypertextuality and how it differs from linear text. Hypertextuality allows readers to navigate text non-linearly by following links between related pieces of information. This gives readers more flexibility to determine their own path and find information relevant to their interests, as opposed to a predefined linear order. Hypertext links topics on a screen to related information, graphics, videos and music through clickable links. Readers can freely explore different directions by following links within the text.

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Lesson 4.

2 Text and Context Connections: Hypertext


What’s New
Typically, a text is written in a linear fashion. This linear progression only enables the reader to read
the material the way the author designed it from the beginning to end. HYPERTEXTUALITY allows
readers to study a text in a different manner. In a hypertext, pieces of information are connected
semantically. There is an undefined beginning, middle and end. Hypertext creates a network of
materials linked because of various connections they share. This encourages and, at times, requires
readers to go through the material at their pace.

Hyper textuality according to Amaral, 2010 is simply a non-linear way of presenting information. Rather
than reading or learning about things in the order that an author, or editor, or publisher sets out for us,
readers of hypertext may follow their own path, create their own order – their own meaning out the
material. This is accomplished by creating ―links‖ between information. These links are provided so that
the readers may ―jump‖ to further information about a specific topic being discussed (which may have
more links, leading each reader off into a different direction).

Instead of reading or learning about things in the order predefined by an author, an editor or a
publisher, the readers of a hypertext can follow their own path, create their own order – their own
meaning out of the material. Hypertext is text which contains links to other texts. The term was coined
by Ted Nelson around 1965. It is when you type a word and attach a link to that word so that upon
clicking on that word, the reader is sent to the site attached. Hypertext is the foundation of the World
Wide Web enabling users to click on link to obtain more information on a subsequent page on the same
site or from website anywhere in the world. Hypertext materials include pictures, video materials
animated and audio illustrations. All those possibilities make hypertext materials content high and
suitable for educational purposes. Hypertext connects topic on a screen to related information, graphics,
videos, and music – information is not simply related to text. This information appears as links and is
usually accessed by clicking. The reader can jump to more information about a topic, which in turn may
have more links. This opens up the reader wider horizon of information to a new direction. A reader can
skim through sections of a text, freely jumping from one part to another depending on what aspect of
the text interests him/her. Thus, in reading with hypertext, you are given more flexibility and
personalization because you get to select the order in which you read the text and focus on information
that is relevant to your background and interests.

Every time you search on the web, you see words or clusters of words that are underlined and are in
blue. When you click these words, you will be transported to another site. Hypertext is a new way of
reading a text online. It collects every available data but this exhaustive inclusion exposes the reader to
a wealth of irrelevant material. While intertextuality banks on its text-generated constraints on the
reader’s perceptions, hypertextuality is a reader-generated loose web of free association. Information
directly/indirectly related to the topic written may be referenced through hyperlinks in which the reader
can access the direct source or reference through a single click. Hypertextuality, although opens up to a
wide variety of mostly irrelevant information, gives the reader the free will to personalize his or her
analysis of the text. The reader may choose to focus only on the information that is related to his/her
background, thus creating a personal meaning out of the given material.

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