HYPERTEXT & HYPERMEDIA
How do they enhance your experience of story?
Ultimately ‘hypertexts and hypermedia’ presents us with the opportunity to broaden the content of a blog. Not only are you watching or reading infomation, but you’re interacting. You get to decide on what journey you want to take. They essentially enable you to have that agency to move through it at your own pace.
Examples of Hypertexts and/or Hypermedia on our blogs … what participation is involved?
- Hypertexts – instagram, facebook, youtube
- Links to other blogs if people want to explore further
- Option to comment
- Videos / audio / pictures (posting and sharing)
As a class, we also discussed how blogs are hypertexts / media because …
- Intertextuality: embedded media, links beyond blog to other media sources
- Participation: commenting, liking, linking
- Fragmentation: posting, categories, tags
- Nodes: Posting
- Technically: immediate access, coding, spontaneity in writing
Caitlin Min Fa 