So we’ve looked at some prehistory, now the theoretical work around the first big mutlilinear shapeshifter, hypertext. Why hypertext?

It is about story and text and we already know a lot about that. It uses a nice set of post-something theories that are relevant to media, communication, cinema, radio studies. It has, theoretically, done an outstanding job of thinking about multilinearity, form, readers, and writing.

So:

Key
Extracts from: Landow, George P. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006. Print. (low rez PDF)

Extra
Extract from: Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale (N.J.): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991. Print. (low rez PDF)