Abstract

Probably still in the computer network-based graphic writing today, hypertext writing undoubtedly determines the characteristics of network communication and expression of experience, influence and significance of the construction of the text, the author reader relationship, or even discuss the subject with knowledge of the shaping. Face hypertext, equal to verify that the computer network as a "text technology", but have no way to avoid the formation of its core technology for printing and writing text in concept and expression of the impact of literacy. In this paper, the invention of hypertext, introduction and use, as a historical event, to view the text of the printing over traditional inheritance and re-writing, writing action on the action with the audience and reshaping, and triggering concerns about the implied copyright positioning the author role. By crawls hypertext scholars prefer the text relied on the concept of post-structuralist view with the author, this article attempts to highlight the writing community context and the author's community property, and expect that the electronic whiteboard to be established based on the expression of quality of community life understanding and good social imagination. As text and graphics constitute the main fare of the Internet, hypertext technology today doubtlessly defines our web-based experiences, such as interpersonal interactions, text and meaning constructions, and even public-issue deliberations. Drawing on Walter Ong's contrast of orality vs. Literacy and post-structuralist discussions of textuality, this essay treats the Internet as "the technology of text" that, brought into being by past hypertext visions and on-going initiatives, has strong impacts on concepts such as "text", "authorship" and "literacy" with its ever boundary-blurring characteristics. The author concludes by envisioning a kind of literacy less individualized but more communalized as implied by hypertext-facilitated electronic writing