For me, hypertext and the internet are so intrinsically linked that there is no separation. Without hypertext, there is no internet. Or at least, not the internet as it is today. Especially in recent years, hypertext and the internet have grown and evolved into something more than just “text”. Hypertext can accomplish things that static, linear text cannot. It creates an interactive and immediate dialogue with others, that overcomes distance, age, language barriers, and political opinions. The hypertext of the internet has even been expanded to include hypermedia as well; the use of graphics and sounds as text.
By using the different mediums of hypertext
and hypermedia, different and unique works are created that could not be
accomplished with other mediums. It is a new kind of dialogue and therefore
requires its own kind of criticism, because it does not operate within the
realms other critical works have existed in. The rules and the tools used to create
it are new and different such as with, for example, the practice of remixes
that the documentary addresses. If it is done simply for the pleasure of
working with music, if the samples used are just tools used to create something
new, to create a dialogue with the music instead of just passively consuming it,
done without monetary gain, should copyright law necessarily apply? By creating
new rules and mediums to exist within, how many of the old rules for the older
media should apply?
3 comments:
I think what you are wondering is, "Is hypertext and hypermedia some form of remediation? After all, like you said "hypertext and the internet are so intrinsically linked that there is no separation." Is there really anything original or does all knowledge just draw from generations before it? Is everything just remediation? Are we supposed to give the original creator credit and profit? Let's look at the ongoing battle between Apple and Samsung over smartphone technology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electronics_Co.,_Ltd. Can there ever really be a winner if these technologies existed before?
I agree when you said that hypertext and the upcoming generation of the internet are intertwined, because when i think of hyper text i think of html and the things that make up the internet text itself.
I also find it interesting that you find hypertext's interaction with us today is a new form of conversation, because it is true we have never been influenced by text or this type of text until recently.
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