Hypertextual System Research Articles

Translation and Genettean Hypertextuality: Catherine Magdalen Evelyn, Catherine of Bologna, and English Franciscan Textual Production, 1618–40

Drawing on the ideas of Gérard Genette, this article argues for the value of reading translations as “hypertexts,” or as works grafted onto earlier texts (“hypotexts”), on the basis of the intriguing case study of The Admirable Life of the Holy Virgin S. Catharine of Bologna (1621), translated by Catherine Magdalen Evelyn of the Gravelines Poor Clares. Little-known today despite Evelyn’s importance as the most prolific female translator of the early Stuart period, this publication sublimates the voice of the translator through its laconic paratextual materials and its misattribution of Evelyn’s work to another nun. In spite of this carefully engineered authorial opacity, the stakes of Evelyn’s translation become clearer when it is read as part of a hypertextual system of Franciscan writings published in English, French, Italian, and Portuguese over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. An analysis of how her text is grafted onto this series of hypotexts through bibliography, intertextuality, and translation results in a detailed, albeit speculative, account of Evelyn’s motivations for reading, translating, and publishing The Admirable Life. This seemingly modest publication is thus revealed as a rich hypertext that participated in a wider European project to chronicle the history of the Franciscan order. A concluding discussion of hypertextuality in early modern England briefly gestures more broadly toward the relevance of this method for studies of Renaissance literature.

La cultura de convergencia digital y la inclusión sociocultural: Interconectando formación y práctica docente

Este artículo está basado en una investigación<br />cualitativa, del tipo estudio de caso,<br />sobre las probables implicaciones de la cultura<br />de convergencia digital y tecnológica,<br />en la construcción de los saberes docentes<br />y en el aprendizaje de la docencia digital.<br />Se sustenta en aportes teórico conceptuales,<br />interrelacionando dos ejes argumentativos:<br />la formación inicial de profesores en<br />la Universidad y la práctica docente de los<br />egresos en la Escuela Básica. El escenario<br />investigativo es el curso de licenciatura en<br />pedagogía, cuyos protagonistas se constituyen<br />profesores de la nueva generación<br />digital y los niños nacidos en el Siglo XXI.<br />Explicitar las implicaciones de la cultura de<br />convergencia digital trae nuevas perspectivas<br />a la planificación y desarrollo de los<br />procesos de enseñar y aprender, por medio<br />de ambientes pedagógicos y de coreografías<br />digitales que permiten la integración de las tecnologías digitales de la información<br />y comunicación (TDIC) y del propio Word<br />Wide Web (sistema hipertextual accionado<br />en red mundial vía Internet). Se concluye<br />que la formación universitaria en ambiente<br />pedagógico digital es fundamental para la<br />construcción de los nuevos saberes docentes<br />de las TDIC y de la Web, favoreciendo<br />la consolidación de la fluidez pedagógica y<br />tecnológica. En la escuela, tal ambiente parece<br />depender más de profesores fluentes,<br />de lo que de la transferencia de tecnologías<br />de última generación. Prácticas educativas<br />convergentes en la educación requieren<br />continuidad entre formación inicial y experiencia<br />docente, integradas a la experiencia<br />pedagógica hipermedia. En síntesis, el proceso<br />constitutivo de ser profesor envuelve<br />la apropiación de la cultura de convergencia<br />digital y tecnológica, lo que nos desafía<br />a nuevos postulados a la formación de<br />profesores.

Izvođenje umetničko/teorijskog rada u mediju hiperteksta – net art Marka Amerike / Performance of Artistic/Theoretical Work in Medium of Hypertext – Mark Amerika’s Net Art

In this study, I focus on the problem of relations between art and theoretical work when they are performed in hypertext/hypermedia Net Art environment. Mark Amerika’s hypermedia practice, produced by digital technologies and focused on the questions of status, functions and modes of art and theory productions in information and biopolitical society, is considered as a case study. Amerika uses hypertext and hypermedia for realization of research art practice and as a media of post-pedagogical and theoretical work which deviate from determined types of scholarly discourses about art and expanding the concept of writing in hypermedia direction. Referring to biopolitical theories, Amerika emphasizes the communication linkage problem between biological organism and networked, hypertextual systems which is always de/regulatory. Remixology, implemented in digital, interactive internet environment, Amerika considers as a critical metaactivity against the manipulation of behavior in mass media of communications space and system of global networking.

The 24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT2013)

This article provides a review of this year's ACM Hypertext and Social Media Conference (Hypertext). Hypertext 2013 was part of the First ACM European Computing Research Congress (ECRC 2013), which was co-located with the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013) and the ACM Web Science Conference 2013 (WebSci 2013) at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. The entire event attracted certainly around 4,000 participants from all over the world. As in 2012, this year the focus was on exploring, studying and shaping relationships between three major dimensions of links in hypertextual systems: people, data and documents. This year, Hypertext was organized by Gerd Stumme and Andreas Hotho and featured 16 full and 20 short papers oral presentations, three exciting workshops, two vibrant keynotes delivered by one of \the fathers of the Internet" Vinton Cerf (Google, USA) and by Denny Vrandečić (Wikimedia, Germany), and two social events with delicious French food and wine. This article reflects the authors personal view of Hypertext 2013 and may not represent the opinions of other individuals who attended the conference.

Calidad y equidad en el futuro de la educación: El problema de la igualdad de oportunidades sigue siendo un problema

The educational models applied, like the cultural demands of the job and career world, bring about unfair situations whose solution is society’s moral duty to deal with. It is not a question of who did not go to school or abandoned it, but of those who go and do not receive the attention the others did. This is an unfair situation as much as that of the illiterate. However, this is more immoral because they do not receive equal opportunities when going and trusting school’s responsibility. It is necessary to update new practices that permit the creation of co-operative dynamics, which guarantee a chain of the value of knowledge, of its construction and its management through integrated and hypertextual systems. I only intend to supply educational compensation ideas that act on what has been produced and is being produced by the models, contributing to avoid new types of exclusions which attempt against educational quality and equity.

Hypertextuality of the Slovenian World Wide Web

The substantial concern of this article is a question to what extent does the contemporary World Wide Web as an information retrieval system reflect key attributes of ideal hypertextual systems. The topic is relevant, since in the literature notions of hypertext and hypertextual systems are accompanied with strong implications not only for the ease and efficacy of access to information, but also for fostering democratisation, augmenting creativity and cooperativeness of human beings. After the brief presentation of the problem the paper focuses on the methodology of analysing this problem – definition of relevant dimensions of hypertext in the World Wide Web, their operationalisation and empirical verification. The latter is presented most thoroughly since it includes a procedure of generating a network of web sites in the Slovenian World Wide Web on the basis of approximately 1.8 million of web pages, identified by search system Najdi.si. After the definition of units and relations, relevant methods and their results are presented in order to assess the hypertextuality of the Slovenian World Wide Web. It is shown that a relatively great proportion of web sites do not follow the expectation of the designers of the World Wide Web technology for it to be a globally interconnected "Docuverse", however, a large minority of web sites are in aggregate reflecting the attributes of ideal hypertext systems. The results can be informative for the global World Wide Web since one of the essential characteristics of the Slovenian World Wide Web have similar distribution to the one assessed in other researches on significantly larger - although not adequate for complete network analysis - proportions of the World Wide Web.