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Article: Hypertext: The Electronic Labyrinth.
- Article from:
- Journal of Australian Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
- Author:
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Hypertext could be described as the computer's tree of information networking
system which arranges information in a non-linear manner `enabling its readers
to construct hybrid documents based on associational links ...'. (p. 17) It can
be better understood as a web of multilayered, non-hierarchical structure which
allows readers to navigate from any point to any point within the network. This
saccadic non-linearity can be seen as technological resistance to authorial
discourse. According to Mark Poster (1994), `the familiar modern subject is