This week’s reading, by George P. Landow explained hypertext and it’s uses within blogs and other network literature.
Hypertext can create links to documents on the same, as well as on other websites.
Take for example, this picture on my blog of the Grand Canyon or this article about my dear friend Jan.
Or, my fellow professional communications student, Carlie’s post about the monkey-selfie.
Images and Graphics can also be used as hypertext. For example, click the button for some fresh royalty free clip-art.
Anyone reading the above text will not be bound to a particular sequence or section of the text and thus, may browse through the information, following what interests them most by clicking one of the highlighted pieces of text, or the button, which will open a separate, associated text.
As Landow explains, electronic linking can also be used within e-books. This allows readers to navigate a text with ease and efficiency, such as skipping to a specific chapter of a novel at the touch of a button. Or, in some instances, to other texts entirely.
This creates an incredible world of endless interconnected texts, displacing the traditional beginning and end structure that confines print literacy.
