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The World-Wide Web has greatly increased the number of hypermedia designers and practitioners—the people who read and write, and otherwise use, hypermedia in their day-to-day activities. Through practice, they have developed new communicative forms: a set of hypermedia document genres. We examine the genres that are arising on the World-Wide Web as a foil for discussing the interaction between hypermedia design practice, hypermedia technology, and the types of hyperdocuments that evolve. The Web creates a particularly fertile environment for looking at such interactions, since the technology is familiar, examples abound, and evolution is rapid.
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Furuta, R., Marshall, C.C. (1996). Genre as Reflection of Technology in the World-Wide Web. In: Fraïssé, S., Garzotto, F., Isakowitz, T., Nanard, J., Nanard, M. (eds) Hypermedia Design. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3082-6_19
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