Hypermedia as Media
HT '09: Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, New York, NY, USA, ACM, (July 2009)Abstract
Hypermedia community has been concerned with systems development, navigational models, and most recently, social implications of networks. As a result, it is possible to distinguish conventions of human-computer interaction, visual styles to interact and represent information, and participatory schemes of social behavior. These transformations allow for observing media in different manners. In this paper, we introduce the idea that hypermedia is not a medium because of its possibilities of linking, combining, and fragmenting several media. Hypermedia is a medium because it introduces new ways for creating media and transforming the communicative process.
