Hypertext Typology

 

• Exploratory

  enable the audience to guide themselves through a text as interest, engagement, and curiosity dictate, and reflect the author's sense of structure
  

• Constructive
  steadily built by their audience, as part of a process of transforming the knowledge previously presented
  

   

  1.) those which feature only text presented as a series of nodes which are directly interlinked (sometimes with some sort of “map” that can be used as guidance);

  2.) those that feature significant graphical and kinetic components (i.e. hypermedia), also based on the 1:1 link-node premise;

  3.) those that present a virtual object that the user negotiates (without having to constantly “click” on links to traverse that text); and,

  4.) those that are formed through methods of aleatoric progression