Welcome to the "Mix and Match Hypertext Essay". |
| This has been produced for the BComm Media first year course "Networked Media" in Semester 2, 2005 |
| It responds to an extract from Landow's Hypertext 2.0 |
| The aim of this essay is to show how a reader may become disoriented by the constant opportunities to link within and outside the essay, and more importantly, through the constant rearrangement of paragraphs on the page. While readers can initially choose which paragraphs they would like to read first and where in this essay, any link they click on will open randomly in the page; readers cannot choose where the information will appear. |
| Each paragraph deals with a theme responding to the extract, including views on authorship, centrality (and decentrality), choice and hypertext itself, with each acting as a 'node', independent of each other, but creating an 'essay' when put together. |
| The only attempt I have made at relieving reader disorientation is to colour-coordinate paragraphs, so that you will see clearly where a new paragraph has appeared. |
| Prepare to be slightly disorientated, and please use the "Start All Over Again" feature should you get a little too lost in the hypertextual realm... |
| ENTER THE MIX AND MATCH ESSAY |