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

ISBN-10: 026252161X
ISBN-13: 9780262521611
Category: Computers
Pages: 484
Language: English
Published: 1991-10
Publisher: MIT Press
Author: Edward Barrett

Description

This collection of essays continues Barrett's investigations into implementingnetworked online systems described in his first book Text, ConText, and HyperText, with a morefocused emphasis on specific hypermedia systems. In four parts the 22 essays take up designinghypertext and hypermedia systems for the online user; textual intervention and collaboration; newroles for writers; and sensemaking and learning in the online environment.In his introduction,Barrett analyzes the design of networked online systems as part of a collaborative process,asserting that the online environment fosters collaboration by using computer technology to supportinteraction among those who design, use, and write software.The first five essays present agenealogy of hypertext development, assess various hypertext designs, discuss users' wants andneeds, and analyze the "rhetoric" of hypertext applications in light of new models for computerhuman interaction. Seven essays then take up new, important online systems for informationretrieval, document production, and training in the online environment. Included are a first timefull scale analysis of the Athena Muse hypermedia system developed at MIT, the hypertext environmentIntermedia, developed at Brown, the University of Maryland's Hyperties, and the Educational OnlineSystem for document production and training technical writers, now in its second year of use atMIT.New roles for writers and productivity gains provided by online environments are the subject ofthe next six essays. The final four essays discuss instructional efficiency and the failures ofinstructional materials. Novel proposals are described for addressing the needs and strategies oflearners, for supporting cooperative work in creating, revising, and testing a software program, forevaluating online help systems, and for eliminating ambiguity in online text.Edward Barrett isLecturer in the Writing Program at MIT. The Society of Text is included in the Information Systemsseries, edited by Michael Lesk.

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