By Katt on Apr 23, 2007 in Recommended Reading, Rhetoric | 0 Comments
The Problems Inherent in Creating Hypermedia for Instructional Purposes
reader is constantly aware of both the presence and absence of the author in the text
reader is constantly confronting structural choices the author established
creates randomness and an instability in the text, especially when the reader is asked to make choices about what to study and has the [...]
By Katt on Feb 3, 2007 in Blogroll | 0 Comments
What is a hypertext? If you ask Google for a definition, you get over a million websites that define hypertext. Some of these links are obviously geared more towards the extreme techno-enthusiasts we’ve been discussing in class and others are geared towards more basic explanations. So here, I will attempt to make sense of what [...]
By Katt on Jan 31, 2007 in Coffee Break | 0 Comments
In his early 1990’s article “The Rationale of Hypertext” Jerome McGann writes that scholars are no longer in need of “us[ing] books to sudy books” and I have been assigned to respond to this comment in a manner that discusses the possibilities for current and future epistemologies and methodologies and what possibilities this upgrade [...]
By Katt on Jan 31, 2007 in Pedagogy, Rhetoric | 0 Comments
In my Rhetoric of Electronic Texts class next week, we’re discussing hypertext and one of the questions we have to post on this week revolves around which theories we see hypertext supporting and destabilizing. I’ve come up with reader response (which is both supported and destabilized by hypertext), but I was having a brain [...]
