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Editorial
Bibliography of Hypertext Criticism

Mez Breeze

Julianne Chatelain Richard E. Higgason Deena Larsen Bill Marsh Adrian Miles Jenny Weight

Author Details

Deena Larsen
Boulder, Colorado
Email: deena@acm.org
Web site: http://www.deenalarsen.net

About the Author

Deena Larsen is a technical writer by day and a hypertext addict by night. She has helped the hypertext/electronic literature/new media/online writing community of readers and writers grow by hosting chats, conducting workshops, and other subversive activities. Her works have been published from Eastgate Systems and appear in Web journals (Firefly (requires Flash 617K) in Poems that Go is her most recent work).

Larsen’s contributions form an interlinked series of comparisions between the long-standing print writing and reading communities and the growing new media communities.

In this Issue

Larsen contributes seven nodes that consider the main problems for hypertext to earn a "normality" status in relation to other media, discuss the technological requirements that set it apart from mainstream literature, the lack of a business model, and the necessity for hypertext to come out of the academic ghetto. She also stresses the importance of community building, and explains the function of writing groups and conferences in the development of readers and writers.

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