Journal of Business and Technical Communication Oct 1998

Selling Possibilities: Hypertext, Freedom, and Direction

LISA R. CRAIG ; ANDREW FLOOD

Abstract

Hypertext, in its most available manifestation, the World Wide Web, is being sold as a force for liberation. One must differentiate the varieties of freedom to better understand how different interests manipulate the freedom mythology to achieve different ends. This study examines the scholars who have framed the hypertext debate and the rhetoric employed by the companies that want to sell it to locate a more complex picture of how these interests use the freedom myth. Such consideration leads to discussion of what might shape hypertext's emergence as more than an information-dispersal system.

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Journal of Business and Technical Communication
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1998-10-01
DOI
10.1177/1050651998012004003
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