Reading Week #4 – Hypertext Express

This weeks Bolter reading was really in depth and had a bunch of examples that related to the different spaces of writing and how this has evolved over time. He makes a point about how ‘each culture and age’ have its own currency or economy of writing. This is a dynamic relationship between material and technique of the culture. This has become a more uniform relationship across the world as the internet age has kicked in. Hypertext allows people to transfer from internet space to internet space at the click of a button. The text is underlined, it highlights KAPOW!

I’m not really a super fan of reading but I tend to be able to read more efficiently when it is on paper. I don’t get distracted by all the other hyperlinks that can pop out of no where. The biggest problems I think with hyperlinks is that they can send you on a never ending tangent that you can sometimes never get out of. For instance, as i was writing this i clicked on a hyperlinked and was distracted for too long.