The Society of Text: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information

By: Michael Lesk

Book Overview

This collection of essays continues Barrett's investigations into implementing networked online systems described in his first book Text, ConText, and HyperText, with a more focused emphasis on specific hypermedia systems. In four parts the 22 essays take up designing hypertext and hypermedia systems for the online user; textual intervention and collaboration; new roles for writers; and sensemaking and learning in the online environment.In his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026252161X
• ISBN13: 9780262521611
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher