cybertext

plural cybertexts

1. countableuncountableText on a computer, particularly hypertext

   The sense of mystory^([sic]) opens up for academics the conceptual space of allowing students a singular journey through a cybertext.

   1999, Wita Wojtkowski, Systems development methods for databases, enterprise modeling, and workflow management

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   Cybertext may promote such a strong feeling of distance between readers, writers, and texts that referentiality to material conditions is downplayed. The very physical act of holding a book and turning its pages-in a sense, much more interactive than clicking a mouse[…]

   2002, Cheryl J Fish, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Women's studies then and now

   1. uncountableMutually interactive, technologically enhanced text as described by Aarseth.

      Procedural and generative cybertext work undermines the concept of authorship and encourages the discussion about 'cyborg authorship'

      2005, Eva Müller-Zettelmann, Margarete Rubik, Theory into poetry: new approaches to the lyric