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HYPERTEXT, HYPERMEDIA AND MULTIMEDIA

It refers to links among textual items, often indicated on a computer or website by key words set in underlined blue type, that, when highlighted by a pointer device and selected or clicked, take the reader to the referent. They are called hotlinks, hyperlinks or links. Hypertext is often used to link text to materials traditionally contained in footnotes and annotations but may also include much more. Bolder explains hypertext as: ¨Electronic text is the first text in which elements of meaning, of structure and of visual display are fundamentally unstable¨

Hypermedia It refers to similar links to those used in hypertext, but instead of simply linking text to text, hypermedia involves linking various media, such as sound, images, animation and/or video. For example: a word or picture might have a link to a sound file giving its pronunciation.

Multimedia

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It tends to feature several media types including text, images, sound, video, and/or animations. The term multimedia is used to encompass the non-linear organization of text in hypertext and the non-linear and multiple information formats referred to in hypermedia.