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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Hypertext response

Playing around with the Hypertexts or Hyperlinks in the powerpoint was pretty neat, especially the hyperlink "These Waves of Girls." At first I found it to be quite obnoxious since the initial page has a sound clip of creepy, childish laughter playing on loop as the page loads. However, I found the pages/links to be interesting since there are stories behind each link. It felt like a game in a way where you hypothetically open one door [in this case, the hyperlink(s)] and find something interesting. In my case, I found a series of provocative and insightful passages.

I think coming up with various Hyperfictions are fairly simple, but what I would like to suggest or that I wish was more available are hyperlinks for lectures, articles, readings, etc. I am a psychology major from the United States and often times have to rely on a lot of articles and texts. Having hyperlinks such as the "web" in "These Waves of Girls" would provide a more colorful alternative for reading scientific articles and research papers.

2 comments:

  1. It's a very interesting idea to create lectures or lecture notes as hypertexts. I wanted to create the footnotes in my PhD dissertation as hyperlinks to a theory dictionary included in the thesis, but my supervisor wouldn't let me do it!

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  2. That sounds like a brilliant idea! Too bad you were not allowed though ...

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