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Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization

George P. Landow

abstract

George Landow's widely acclaimed Hypertext was the first book to bring together the worlds of literary theory and computer technology. Landow was one of the first scholars to explore the implications of giving readers instant, easy access to a virtual library of sources as well as unprecedented control of what and how they read. In hypermedia, Landow saw a strikingly literal embodiment of many major points of contemporary literary theory, particularly Derrida's idea of «de-centering» and Barthes's conception of the «readerly» versus «writerly» text. From Intermedia to Microcosm, Storyspace, and the World Wide Web, Landow offers specific information about the kinds of hypertext, different modes of linking, attitudes toward technology, and the proliferation of pornography and gambling on the Internet. For the third edition he includes new material on developing Internet-related technologies, considering in particular their increasingly global reach and the social and political implications of this trend as viewed from a postcolonial perspective. He also discusses blogs, interactive film, and the relation of hypermedia to games. Thoroughly expanded and updated, this pioneering work continues to be the «ur-text» of hypertext studies.

keywords

blogs, computer technology, hypertext, literary theory, storyspace, technology, World Wide Web

catalogue card

Title: Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization
Author: George P. Landow
Publication: Baltimore; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, cop. 2006
ISBN: 0-8018-8256-7

index

Preface: Why Hypertext 3.0?
Acknowledgments
1 Hypertext: an introduction
2 Hypertext and critical theory
3 Reconfiguring the text
4 Reconfiguring the author
5 Reconfiguring writing
6 Reconfiguring narrative
7 Reconfiguring literary education
8 The politics of hypertext: who controls the text?

Editorial

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Innaugural lecture of the UOC's 2006-2007 academic year
Learning to live together, by Mustapha Cherif
The primary condition for peace, presentation by the rector Imma Tubella
Counterpoint, by Xavier Rubert de Ventós

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The Barcelona model of e-administration: adoption and institutionalisation, by José Ramón Rodríguez

The influence of the knowledge society on the modernisation of the Public Administration, de J.Á. Martínez, P. Lara-Navarra and P. Beltrán

The 2.0 teacher: teaching and research from the Web, by I. Peña, C. Córcoles and C. Casado

Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, by Bruno Latour.
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