[Air-L] Research on hypertext

[Jacqueline Vickery]

Here is an article that might be helpful to you and provide a nice
bibliography of other possible sources.

Eveland, W.P., Marton, K, Seo, M.(Feb. 2004). Moving Beyond 'Just the
Facts': The influence of online news content structure of public affairs
knowledge. *Communication Research.*

Available online: http://crx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/31/1/82

Abstract: *The increasing use of online news, particularly by young
Americans, pointsto the importance of understanding what users learn from this
form of news and whether features of online news encourage or discourage
various types of learning. This experimental study demonstrates that online
news that takes advantage of one of the key characteristics of the Web—the
use of in-text hyperlinks—may actually discourage learning of the facts that
make up many news stories. But this same linking structure apparently
encourages those who commonly use the Web to have more densely
interconnected knowledge structures for public affairs topics. However,
those who rarely use the Webfor news do not gain such advantages and may
even suffer disadvantages. These findings point to limitations in most past
online news learning research, which has been limited to "just the facts" in
its measurement of learning from the news.
*
Best,
Jacqueline

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Jacqueline Vickery
Co-Coordinating Editor, FlowTV.org
Department of Radio-Television-Film
University of Texas - Austin



On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:55 AM, KMV <cuuixsilver at gmail.com> wrote:

> This book may be of interest:
>
> http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=297291
>
> Here's the descriptive blurb:
>
> "Links" are among the most basic—and most unexamined—features of
> online life. Bringing together a prominent array of thinkers from
> industry and the academy, The Hyperlinked Society addresses a
> provocative series of questions about the ways in which hyperlinks
> organize behavior online. How do media producers' considerations of
> links change the way they approach their work, and how do these
> considerations in turn affect the ways that audiences consume news and
> entertainment? What role do economic and political considerations play
> in information producers' creation of links? How do links shape the
> size and scope of the public sphere in the digital age? Are hyperlinks
> "bridging" mechanisms that encourage people to see beyond their
> personal beliefs to a broader and more diverse world? Or do they
> simply reinforce existing bonds by encouraging people to ignore social
> and political perspectives that conflict with their existing interests
> and beliefs?
>
> Best,
>
> Kim
>
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:39 AM, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:
> > Have you checked the proceedings of the Hypertext conferences?   It seems
> a
> > likely place to find this sort of thing.
> > On Nov 23, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Øystein Pedersen Dahlen wrote:
> >
> >> Dear colleagues,
> >>
> >> Is there anybody out there who knows about research on hyperlinks in
> >> web news outlets that goes beyond counting the number of hyperlinks?
> >> More precisely: content analysis of interlinked texts that gives a
> >> better understanding of the connection between the primary and linked
> >> texts, like answering question if the linked texts give the reader more
> >> knowledge and understanding of the news by using these hyperlinks.
> >>
> >> Best wishes
> >> Øystein Pedersen Dahlen
> >> Volda University College
> >> Norway
> >>
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