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Hypertext and the Evolution of Modern English Language

Explore the concept of hypertext and its impact on the evolution of the English language. Discuss interactivity, intertextuality, de-centering, accessibility, and multimedia in relation to hypertext. Learn how hypertext has revolutionized communication and empowered users.

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Hypertext and the Evolution of Modern English Language

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  1. Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart, the center cannot hold.Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. - W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”

  2. Hypertextand the Evolution of theModern English Language Nerd Night Presentation May 12, 2011 By Jenna Duncan Writer, Instructor @ GCC

  3. What is Hypertext? A term coined by theorist Theodor H. Nelson in the 1960s: “Non-sequential writing—text that branches and allows choices to the reader, best read at an interactive screen…” Text chunks that lead the reader down different pathways. Example: “New Perverse Logics” http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/body/dgmt/main.html

  4. What is Hypertext? VannevarBush’s concept: “Chains of links might themselves comprise a new form of scholarly writing.” Interactivity Intertextuality De-centering (of power) Accessibility Multi-platform Multimedia

  5. What is intertextuality? • The relationship between texts—especially literary ones! Heteroglossia (many meanings within one text) - Bakhtin Postmodern Literature

  6. Convergence Culture

  7. Convergence Culture

  8. Evolution of Texting: From Cuneiform to OMG

  9. Acronym-ity

  10. De-Centering the Text Derrida – Abandon our conceptual system! Rethink ideas of: Center Margins Hierarchy Linearity

  11. De-Centering the Text Replace with: Multilinearity Nodes Links Networks “All texts have variable applications and purposes” (Jenkins 106)

  12. Revolution! - Hypertext changes how we speak and how we are spoken to. - Levels the playing field; democratizes texts “Almost all are party to this paradigm shift…” - Jenkins We are all connected, we are all “textual,” we are all empowered, we are all user/generators!* * with some exceptions: ie. Third World, victims of oppressive regimes, the incarcerated

  13. Revolution/Evolution But it comes with some warnings… Impersonal – everyone sitting around, privately using; a “denaturing” of language Validity – Instant info. = good info.? A deprecation of the language:If the rules change too fast, we no longer have a common ground upon which to stand; we no longer have a base of language to understand one another. “Things fall apart, the center does not hold…”

  14. Be Empowered - Use Hypertext “The Machine is Us/ing Us” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

  15. Works Cited “Desertion.” Wikipedia.org. 24 April 2011. Web. 10 May 2011.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWOL#Absence_without_leave> Eyal, Segal, et al. "The Intertextual Thread: A Newcultural Unit in Hypertext." Leonardo Electronic Almanac 12.9 (2004): N.PAG. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 28 Apr. 2011. “Is English Changing?” ed. Betty Birner. Linguistic Society of America.nd. Web. 28 Apr. 2011. <www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/Is_English_Changing.pdf> Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York UP. 2006. Print. Landow, George P. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in a Global Era. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Print. Google Books. Web. 28 Apr. 2011. Language. Films Media Group, 1999. Films On Demand. Web. 10 May 2011. <http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=8949&xtid=10177>.

  16. Works Cited 2.0 Lanham, Richard A. "What's Next for Text?." Education, Communication and Information 1.1 (2001): 15-36. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 1 May 2011. Levy, Pierre. Collective Intelligence: Mankind’s Emerging World in Cyberspace. Cambridge, Mass: Perseus Books. 1997. Print. Robertson, Stephen. "What's Wrong with Online Readings? Text, Hypertext, and the History Web." History Teacher 39.4 (2006): 441-454. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 1 May 2011. “Scrabble.” Wikipedia.org. 4 May 2011. Web. 10 May 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble Writing. Films Media Group, 1998. Films On Demand. Web. 10 May 2011. <http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=8949&xtid=10178>.

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