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Feral hypertext: when hypertext literature escapes control

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Feral hypertext: when hypertext literature escapes control
This paper presents a historical view of hypertext looking at preweb hypertext as a domesticated species bred in captivity, and arguing that on the web, some breeds of hypertext have gone feral. Feral hypertext is no longer tame and domesticated, but is fundamentally out of our control. In order to understand and work with feral hypertext, we need to accept this and think more as hunter-gatherers than as the farmers we have been for domesticated hypertext. The paper discusses hypertext in general with an emphasis on literary and creative hypertext practice. Categories and Subject Descriptors J.5 [Computer Applications]: Arts and Humanities – literature. General Terms Design, Human Factors, Theory. Keywords Hypertext, links, emergence, folksonomy, ethnoclassification, fiction, semantic web, literature, history, domestication.
Jill Walker
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where HT
Authors Jill Walker
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