Hypertextual
strategies, in their ideal manifestations,
entail an epistemological shift for all participants.
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That
is, there is a reformulation of the way we understand the function, acquisition,
and dispersal of knowledge. |
Where
before knowledge was understood as distinct sets of facts, the transfer
of which was conducted through the conduit of language and the possession
of which was demonstrated through replication, here knowledge is understood
as connections engendered in the author and reader through their interactive
discourse in the hypertextual landscape, in the network. |
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With
the shattering of the objectivist paradigm the
value of replication wanes and in its place a new vision is born (though
now only in its infancy). This emerging perception forces us to rethink
our ideas about education, knowledge, texts, and experience more generally.
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