Thinking Linking |
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In his book, Interface Culture, Steven Johnson called the
link the first new form of punctuation to appear in over a hundred years.
As yet, we still have little understanding of the complexities of how
a link event (of any kind) works. Linking Exercise Part One a) From the context of the jumping-off point (visual, textual, aural, etc.) where do you expect to go if you activate your chosen link? What hypotheses are you making about what might come next? Support your hypotheses with evidence from the page.2) Now activate the link, and answer the following questions about your linking experience:- b) What are you thinking about/doing in the space between activating the link and arriving at your destination. However short the interval between the two, you are thinking about something! Part Two |
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