On Links: Exercises in Style
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Links are the most important new punctuation mark since the invention of the comma, but it has been years since the last in-depth discussions of link poetics. Taking inspiration Raymond Queneau'sExercices De Style, we explore the poetics of contemporary link usage by offering exercises in which the same piece of text is divided and linked in different ways. We present three different exercises---varying the division of a text into lexia, varying links among lexia, and varying links within lexia---while pointing toward potential aesthetic considerations of each variation. Our exercises are intended descriptively, not prescriptively, as a conversational starting point for analysis and as a compendium of useful techniques upon which artists might build.
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The structure of nodes and their link connections can affect how a piece of hypertext is read as much as the contents of those nodes.
“The structure of nodes and their link connections can have just as much of an effect on how a piece of hypertext is read as the contents of those nodes.”
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The paper says in “Dividing Lexia” that how text is divided has a great impact on the reader’s experience, and in “Links Among Lexia” that link placement and destinations create meaning (page numbers unavailable). It supports the importance of structure and links, but does not establish the claim’s comparison that they can affect reading just as much as node contents. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredLinks also connect their departure and arrival nodes semantically.
“But links also connect their departure and arrival nodes semantically, and literary research in hypertext theory has explored the meaning links create in addition to the way they move a reader through the text.”
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“Mason and Bernstein (2019) use a short, paragraph-long story to demonstrate how variations of dividing text into nodes and stylistic changes to links change the aesthetic effects and affect the meaning of the text.”
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- Mason, S., & Bernstein, M.
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- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- Watertown City School District (US)
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- Bernstein, Mark
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- Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media
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- ACM
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- 2019-09-12
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- 103-110
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Artistic and Creative Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Art, Technology, and Culture
- Keywords
- links, punctuation, Raymond Queneau, Exercices de style, text segmentation, Lexias, stylistic variation, poetic form
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