Add to ORKGThe purpose of this paper is to examine characteristics of the hypertext, In extending Innis and McLuhan's perspective on media, it discusses three characteristics of the hypertext; nonlinearity, seamlessness, borderlessness. It argues that hypertext creates the changes in traditional power relations between writer and reader, and maker arxl audience. It also suggests that hypertext exempIify forms of transition between textuality and hypertextuality. Hypertext system links passages of verbal text and images as easily as they links more verbal passages, Hypertext linking situates the present text as the center of the textual universe, thus creating a new links of hierarchy in which power of the center dominates that of the infinite peripher...
