cybertext
nounEtymology From cyber- + text, perhaps popularised by Espen J. Aarseth's 1997 "Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature"; though "The Cybertext Corporation" existed in Arcata in the 1980s.
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Text on a computer, particularly hypertext
- The sense of mystory^([sic]) opens up for academics the conceptual space of allowing students a singular journey through a cybertext.1999, Wita Wojtkowski, Systems development methods for databases, enterprise modeling, and workflow management:
- Cybertext may promote such a strong feeling of distance between readers, writers, and texts that referentiality to material conditions is downplayed. The very physical act of holding a book and turning its pages-in a sense, much more interactive than clicking a mouse[…]2002, Cheryl J Fish, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Women's studies then and now:
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Mutually interactive, technologically enhanced text as described by Aarseth.
- Procedural and generative cybertext work undermines the concept of authorship and encourages the discussion about 'cyborg authorship'2005, Eva Müller-Zettelmann, Margarete Rubik, Theory into poetry: new approaches to the lyric:
- Related terms
- hypertext