The chain of signifying, signs interpreted in, and only in, other signs. A commentary on a text will always take the form of another text. New writing supplements prior writing in a chain or expanding network. Hypermedia simply extends the notion of the text in hypertext by including visual information, sound, animation, and other forms of data. Since hypertext, which links a passage of verbal discourse to images, maps, diagrams, and sound as easily as to another verbal passage, expands the notion of text beyond the solely verbal, I do not distinguish between hypertext and hypermedia.
Hypertext denotes an information medium that links verbal and nonverbal information.
New possibilities for learning and creativity. Breakup of predetermined linearity. Dissociation of text and media from the physical constraints of objects in time and space. Critique and questions. The economic bases of textual production, or the work of cultural production.