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Killing the Hyperlink, Killing the Web: The Shift from Library-Internet to Television-Internet

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The Web, as envisaged by its inventors, was founded on the idea of hyperlinks. Derived from the notion of hypertext in literary theory, a hyperlink is a relation rather than an object. It is a system of connections that connects distant pieces of text, resulting in a non-linear, open, active, decentralized, and diverse space we called the World Wide Web. But in the past few years, and with the rise of closed social networks, as well as mobile apps, the hyperlink - and thereby the Web - are in serious trouble. Most social networks have created a closed, linear, centralized, sequential, passive, and homogeneous space, where users are encouraged to stay in all the time -- a space that is more like television.

The Web was imagined as an intellectual project that promoted knowledge, debate, and tolerance; as something I call library-internet. Now it has become more about entertainment and commerce; I call this tv-internet.

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Killing the Hyperlink, Killing the Web: The Shift from Library-Internet to Television-Internet
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia
      2. Web-based interaction

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HT '16: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

July 2016

354 pages

ISBN:9781450342476

DOI:10.1145/2914586

General Chairs:
Jamie Blustein
Dalhousie University, Canada
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Eelco Herder
L3S Research Center, Germany
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Jessica Rubart
OWL University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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Helen Ashman
University of South Australia

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