Hypertext: reading
& writing
Discussion Board issues
4. On borders and boundaries... (Shelley Babich)
| Are the boundaries we see between texts merely an artifact of outdated critical assumptions? |
Hypertext may blur boundaries; but readers bring boundaries to the texts they read (September 21) Text boundaries should be dissolved; but our generation still brings assumptions of textual autonomy to our reading.[1] What will happen with children now being raised on hypertext? Children are actually doing very little reading, compared with time spent on multimedia (games, etc.). |
[1] Figure/ground, i.e., the gestalt principles of completeness, suggest that boundaries may be an intrinsic property of human perception. |