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Hypertext and collaboration: Observations on Edward Barrett's philosophy

1992; Routledge; Volume: 1; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10572259209359511

1542-7625

Chet Hedden,

Team Dynamics and Performance

In a departure from the view that characterizes hypertext as a new writing paradigm based on old associationist ideas, Edward Barrett has proposed a model for hypertext that rejects cognitive and associationist language as both unnecessary and inaccurate. In this view, knowledge, reality, and even facts are community generated, "linguistic entities," and hypertext supports the "social interface" rather than the "deep structure" of thought. This essay considers some of the premises of Barrett's proposal. A central issue is the rejection of the "authorial imperative" of structured information in favor of a view of writing as an open‐ended ever‐changing conversation in which readers and writers collaborate to discover—or generate—reality.