Text/Hypertext
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18939433 |
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| Authors | Gregory L Ulmer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeost017 |
| OpenAlex | W4252631890 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Hypertext refers to a network of nodes or lexias (units of content) connected non‐sequentially by links, forming a docuverse that includes users in a feedback loop, usually in a computer medium. The first description of hypertext as a concept was by Vannevar Bush, in an article entitled “As We May Think,” published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1945. Bush imagined a machine‐desk called “memex” that could solve the problem of storage and retrieval created by the modern information explosion. Merging the functions of a library and a personal filing system, memex proposed to support and augment an associative indexing corresponding to the actual processes of human thought, memory, and imagination. Individuals researching the branching paths of information related to an inquiry would build trails of connections through the collective archive of recorded information, and these trails would be preserved, shared, and cross‐referenced, establishing possibly a new profession of knowledge “trailblazers.”
Associative property · Desk · Hypertext · Information retrieval · Search engine indexing · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Multimedia Communication and Technology
| Highly cited | No |
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