Rosenberg (1996) A Prosody of Space / Non-Linear Time

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Rosenberg, Jim (2000) A Prosody of Space / Non-Linear Time, Postmodern Culture Vol 10, No. 3. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

This article offers a condensed explanation of Rosenberg's "Hypertext Structure Terminology", which offers some indication of what he means by "spatial hypertext":

By hypertext I mean a text that contains embedded interactive operations when considered from the reader's point of view: the text contains interactive devices that trigger activities. The most familiar of these is the hypertext link, but many other types are possible. [...] Research hypertext software has been built based on both set models and relation models, and spatial hypertexts have been constructed using such concepts as piles and lists. In all of these cases, the hypertext is operated by performing activities; these activities consist of such actions as following a link, opening up a pile or simultaneity, etc. (paragraph 9)

In other words, spatiality in 'spatial hypertext' seems to refer to a spatial logic in the internal structure of the text (that is, how the nodes are organized and linked together), not to some external space. --Anders Sundnes Løvlie 02:04, 25 November 2009 (UTC)