Hypermedia and comunication

Hypermedia  is used as a logical extension of the term hypertext  in which graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks are involved, being exemplified by the “World Wide Web”. 

Brian and Williams think that the “hypermedia” has affected the human communication. In their opinion it has had to face two different problems. On the one hand, the appearance of some new ways of writing, and on the other hand, some problems that the writers have to suffer everyday. The hypermedia and networks are opened to anybody, so almost anything is accepted. That’s why some writers transfer some of their bad habits from one medium to another. There ate some disadvantages too. This way, anybody is able write on the Internet without any documentation, and this could cause some problems to the user, who doesn’t know if the information is good or isn’t.

But as N. Katherine Hayles says, “electronic literature is digital born”, so everybody should take into acount the human comunication, not the hypermedia only.

 

• Hypermedia (2008, October 15). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16.30,  December 24, 2008 from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypermedia&oldid=245357554
• Electronic literature (2008, July 6). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16.31, December 24, 2008 from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Electronic_literature&oldid=223895319
• Patrick O’Brian Holt & Noel Williams (1992): Computers and Writing, the state of the art. Published by  Intellect Books ISBN 187151620X, 9781871516203 retrieved 16.33, December 24, 2008 from http://books.google.es/books?id=Q75qE4u9fEgC

hypertext

Hypertext is the name which receives the text that in the screen of a computer leads to a user to another related text. The hipertext`s most habitual way in documents is the hyperlink, which is an automatic reference that links you to other documents. If the user selects an hyperlink, the linked document will immediately appear in front of him or her. Another way of  hypertext is  the stretchiest which consists of  two indicators and one screen. The first indicator allows us to move up and down what we’ve recently written.  The second one, makes the text change its size.

Its mainly to mention that the hypertext is not only limited to facts and figures. We can also can find drawings, videos or listenings referred to the topic.  The program what we use to reed the hipertext´s documents is called “navigator” or “browser”, and when we use a link we sat that we´re surfing the web.

The hypertext is one of the ways of the hypermedia, created to design, write and redact a text in a media.

 

• Hypertext (December 9, 2008). In wikipedia. Retrieved 12.05, December 10, 2008 from: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipertexto
• .Adelaide Bianchini (June 2000). Conceptos y definiciones de hipertexto. Retrieved 12.06, December 10, 2008 from: http://www.ldc.usb.ve/~abianc/hipertexto.html
• María Jesús Lamarca Lapuente. (Actualizacion permanente)HIPERTEXTO: EL NUEVO CONCEPTO DE DOCUMENTO EN LA CULTURA DE LA IMAGEN . Retrieved 12.08., December 10, 2008 from: http://www.hipertexto.info/