I never really thought of hypertext enabling us to shape our own experiences of the internet. Listers reading made me think about things that I had not before. Although I knew we overall decided what we read and what we didnt, I never really put much thought into the fact that by doing that I was creating my own 'unique' experience. Unique to the extent that it would be very odd if someone else was going through the exact same websites as me, in the same order, same time etc.
I think the internet would be hard to use without hypertext! It would be so hard to find anything, so it definately really shapes our experiences, it makes it a lot less stressful than what it would be if it didnt exsist.
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Does it encourage you to 'bail out' of a page before you've finished what the author assumed you might complete?
If you don't, do you think that perhaps that hyperlink means that the word(s) in blue and underlined might mean more than you thought they did?
Does it lead to a sort of feeling that everything you've found out online is 'provisional' because you haven't followed every hyperlink -and contradiction or extra insight could be lurking behind every link?
What difference might there be to reading The Bible in book form and reading it as a website?
i found out from the reading that academic books can be be technically hypertexts because they included citations and bibliography but i think the internet (WWW) made hypertext more clearer in terms of its purpose
you do sometimes feel that, if you click a link to another website, that you might not have looked at everythin at the previous website. So this creates a problem for authors of the websites.
I think it definately encourages you to bail out of the page before you have finished reading it all, I am constantly flicking back and forth through links and rarely reading the whole article. This demonstrates how different the internet is to books etc, in books you have to read it in a linear structre but online you can view it in a non-linear structure ,you can also filter what you do and dont want to read. But I do think that you do loose a lot of information by doing this, where as in a book all the information is there and you can find out that in the index, online - if you dont click on something, you dont really know what your missing out on.
I think that if people read the bible online they would miss out a lot where as reading it from the book they would not!
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