HYPERTEXT AND HYPERMEDIA

HYPERTEXT :

Hypertext is text which contains links to other texts.

HYPERMEDIA:

HyperMedia is a term used for hypertext which is not constrained to be text: it can include graphics, video and sound ,

EXAMPLE OF HYPERTEXT :

Hypertext fiction is interactive with often intricate paths to different threads of the story and related graphics.  With some hypertect fiction, just by clicking on a word, the reader experiences the story in a way that is not easily repeatable, given the numerous possibliities to approaching the story. Some stories are designed to not allow the the reader to have the same experience twice. 

Hypertext poetry links different passages of the poem that stem from the primary text. Some hypertext poetry does not have a primary text.  By selecting random paths to create her or his own version of the fiction and poetry, the reader creates his or her version of the story/poem.  Although the author has created a set number of paths, the linking pattern the reader chooses determines the version of the story. Some hypertext literary works do provide an overall map of the structure. An early fiction work, Afternoon, a Story, by Michael Joyce (1991, Cambridge, Mass: Eastgate Press, on computer disk) does not provide the readers with the overall structure. Some sections have few links, while others have numerous links. The effect when reading the story is that the reader is creating the story as she/he proceeds, even though Joyce has written all of the possible narrative threads.

CONCEPT OF HYPERMEDIA:

There is an example of hyperlink:
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