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| =====Hegemony and Hypertext ===== | =====Hegemony and Hypertext ===== | ||
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| - | === Hegemony is designed into objects === | ||
| * The object is discursive. | * The object is discursive. | ||
| * Designers must engage semiosis. | * Designers must engage semiosis. | ||
| * Ideologies hide in tech writing. | * Ideologies hide in tech writing. | ||
| - | * *The UX* is *the sales pitch*. | + | * //The UX// is //the sales pitch//. |
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| + | === Hegemony is designed into objects === | ||
| Consider how a device or program carries or even enforces a hegemony or ideology. The object is discursive. It makes an argument, it makes a claim, it is grounded in particular warrants. The ideology is encoded in the object, which makes the values designed into the object invisible but decipherable. Feenberg calls this the technical code - cultural hegemony design into the object. | Consider how a device or program carries or even enforces a hegemony or ideology. The object is discursive. It makes an argument, it makes a claim, it is grounded in particular warrants. The ideology is encoded in the object, which makes the values designed into the object invisible but decipherable. Feenberg calls this the technical code - cultural hegemony design into the object. | ||
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| > What then are the technical codes of hypertext and more specifically what does the history of hypertext tell us about the meaning and potential direction of such codes? Think back to the topics covered in this chapter' | > What then are the technical codes of hypertext and more specifically what does the history of hypertext tell us about the meaning and potential direction of such codes? Think back to the topics covered in this chapter' | ||
| - | > 1. The oral/ | + | > 1. The oral/ |
| - | 2. The tendency to situate the creative use of hypertext within the experimental traditions of modem and postmodem literature. | + | > 2. The tendency to situate the creative use of hypertext within the experimental traditions of modem and postmodem literature. |
| - | 3. Vannevar Bush and the memex. | + | > 3. Vannevar Bush and the memex. |
| - | 4. The visions of pioneers such as Ted Nelson, Douglas Engelbart and Andries van Dam. | + | > 4. The visions of pioneers such as Ted Nelson, Douglas Engelbart and Andries van Dam. |
| - | 5. Equally pioneering applications such as Intermedia, Storyspace, HyperCard and Mosaic. | + | > 5. Equally pioneering applications such as Intermedia, Storyspace, HyperCard and Mosaic. |
| - | 6. The use of hypertext by publishers, educators and creative writers and how such individuals describe and characterize such use. | + | > 6. The use of hypertext by publishers, educators and creative writers and how such individuals describe and characterize such use. |
| > In the first case hypertext as a technology is often linked to a particular historical trajectory that for the most part is progressive in nature. In other words, hypertext represents an important evolutionary development that is not only more appropriate for current conditions but also represents a marked improvement over previous technologies and practices.... | > In the first case hypertext as a technology is often linked to a particular historical trajectory that for the most part is progressive in nature. In other words, hypertext represents an important evolutionary development that is not only more appropriate for current conditions but also represents a marked improvement over previous technologies and practices.... | ||
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| Hypertext cannot be the revolutionary mode we want to cast it as. The augmentation of human intellect is still focused on a hegemony of commerce that defeats itself. It's a bootstrap. | Hypertext cannot be the revolutionary mode we want to cast it as. The augmentation of human intellect is still focused on a hegemony of commerce that defeats itself. It's a bootstrap. | ||
| - | Kitzmann, | + | Kitzmann, |
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| + | This means that when the hypertext is well-designed and the reader is willing, [[the hypertext reader explores]]. Until then, [[readers and writers of hypertext must resist]] the hegemony designed in. Another way of saying this is that hypertext makes necessary and possible [[A Rich Concept of the Reader]]. | ||
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| + | see also Murray, //Inventing the Medium//. | ||
| - | see also *Designing the Media*. | ||
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