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- If you're reading something online and there are links connected to only certain words it can be difficult to keep track of what is original text and what words are being used as a reference and are therefore linked to. Using schizophrenia as a metaphor to describe the hypertext is personifying and gives a sense that the final text, including original and hypertext references, does not know it's true identity. It's constantly switching back and forth.
-Hypertext is a confusing state bouncing between original text or referenced work. There is no clear cut identification with hypertext.
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Throughout "Stitch Bitch" Jackson uses a lot of personification when describing hypertext. In this particular sentence Jackson relates hypertext to being schizophrenic. With schizophrenia, thoughts jump around and it is hard to pay attention. Jackson relates this to hypertext because it is difficult to tell what is the original text and what is not, also with hypertext it easy to jump around through different and to get distracted.
Jackson does use a lot of ways to describe hypertext. I liked this one a lot because hypertext does send you everywhere, schizophrenic sounds like the perfect word to describe this.
ReplyDeleteI like the juxtaposition between hypertext and schizophrenia, how words seem to be all over the place. It's an interesting word choice, and works perfectly.
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