Espen J. Aarseth is associate professor in the Department of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway.
精彩摘录
"During the cybertextual process, the user will have effectuated a semiotic sequence, and this selective movement is a work of physical construction that the various concepts of "reading" do not account for. This phenomenon I call ergodic..."
As Aarseth argues, hypertext reading can be as limiting as, or, may be more limiting than, linear reading. Readers have to scrutinise every word in hypertext in order to avoid missing electronic links or meeting same links repeatedly.