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| Note: | From node: | Context (one of the sentences that uses this footnote. |
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Location | If visible, then the decoration becomes akin to italics or upper CASE or bold in a text work. |
| anchor | Embedded | read read read <anchor > (metaread: Why is this emphasized? What is the connection to other text? This is grey, indicating a footnote or side thought.) |
| anchornielsen | Definition | For the purposes of this text, we are using the term "anchor" to refer to that portion of the link that the reader uses to activate the link. |
| anchorthoughts | Definition Afternoon What We Will In The Changing Room Joe's Heartbeat in Budapest Same Day Test |
Other writers have visualized anchors in surprisingly different ways. |
| available | Dickey | Wlliam Dickey's works are in HyperCard and are not readily available |
| bolter1 | Location | “ At the end of each episode, the author inserts a set of links to other episodes . . . [111, p. 122] “ |
| bringsyou | Definition | This becomes a shorthand for a complicated process: a link is presented as a trigger on a screen, consists of instructions for presenting other content when triggered--thus the trigger is what yields, what brings you to new story lines. |
| business | Animated | However, business ads are not always concerned with providing information, but with extracting money. |
| card | Nondistinguished Diagrams Series 5 Storyspace Patchwork Girl True North |
Diagrams Series 5 [57]
uses a layered series of transparent cards. Storyspace's default view is a map view with anchors that represent nodes |
| cheating | Joyce | However, the only way to determine whether the word you clicked on was "highlighted" as a textured text or was a default link is to jiggle back and forth on one page to test all possibilities. |
| control | Selective Patchwork Girl Notes Toward Absolute Zero Victory Garden |
This key combination provides a treasure map of all the anchors, revealing the anchors on each node. |
| defpopup | Definition | As a result, many sites discuss the anchor as the tag in an html document that creates the link, the <a> and </a>, while the piece of the node that yields is simply called the “ link” or “linked text.” |
| drinking | Decoration Moderate Modest Taxonomy FirstGov.gov In The Changing Room Reach Morrissey Six Sex Scenes Saturn |
Text links are blue. Visited links are purple. Active links are red. |
| dunno | Bankrate Brand |
While the issue of increased traffic is beyond the scope of this paper, these anchors function very differently from Bankrate. |
| easter
eggsNon-distinguished Primary Larsen easter eggs |
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| eye | Animated Bzzpopups |
Appear on the screen, play around a bit to distract the reader, and settle into a corner, waiting to be clicked. These are usually advertisements, working to catch the user's attention eye. |
| fabula | Graphic Map Samplers Ferris Wheels |
Ferris Wheels 's [34] introductory graphic provides a map to the fabula. |
| fat-her | Embedded Format |
"My father was watching" |
| fatherword | Embedded Location Ambiguous |
"my father was watching our every move." |
| father phrase | Embedded | "As she got dressed, I looked up and knew that my father was watching our every move." |
| finished | Menu | In aesthetic sites, menus are frequently on the bottom of the node--to present choices after the reader has finished the episode. |
| flashover | Selectively animated |
This can be either a mouseover that reveals more anchors, or a flashover where the act of mousing over an anchor triggers a longer event ont he same screen |
| format | Metacommentary | The anchor repetition is deliberate to elicit reader thought on reactions to the same anchors in different formats (and to provide accessible links for Jaws readers). |
| Guide | Moderate Metacommentary |
The web has underlined words, while other systems such as Guide provide bold and italics. |
| interact | Decoration | The depth of interaction required to manipulate an anchor is a primary indication of how much time will be required to view and interact with a piece and how important the interpretation of the anchor is to the content of the piece. |
| intertwingled | Conclusion Metacommentary |
Anchor properties are deeply intertwingled |
| look | Modest | Modest decorations can be a variation on a theme, such as The Pines at Walden Pond [39] (green links with green text) or part of the overall graphical characteristics, as Him [9] 's modest anchors (merely grey radio buttons on the side of a grey box) contribute to the austere and structured look. |
| meme | Embedded Icons Numbers Memmott Mez |
Talan Memmott and [mez] [breeze]] take this to extremes. |
| montage | Menu Garnier Fructis Memmott Patchwork Girl |
Memmott presents a montage that as Bernstein [70] notes about montage in general "appear simultaneously, reinforcing each other while retaining their separate identities. Here the anchors reinforce each other as they crowd over and occlude each other. |
| mysterymeat | Nondistinguished Brand Fuddruckers Royal |
This site was cited in webpagesthatsuck.com [119] for its mystery meat navigation. |
| neatly | Denotative | While it is impossible to neatly separate connotation from denotation, we have found it useful to term anchors that refer to names of nodes or other portions of the hypertext "denotative." |
| node vs episode | Graphic |
This navigational emphasis brings certain words from the episode
to the forefront, either connotatively
or denotatively. |
| notanchors | Icons | The Changing Room [8] uses a series of icons to indicate which of the nine characters is speaking--and which character the default anchor will visit next. |
| Pierce | Pierce defines an icon as “a sign which is determined by its dynamic object by virtue of its own internal nature.” | |
| pine | Pines | This work uses Trellix, a software program that designed websites with map views. The map here shows the thoughts branching down a pine. |
| play2 | Reagan | As in Pax [46], his other game-like work, or War Games--Catch The LandMine!! [40], the game aspect comes alive through a selectively animated anchor |
| playful | Ley | providing the needed distance from the grisly details. |
| pun | Dickey | On this screen, the only anchor is on the bull's eye. |
| queneau | Firefly | As in Raymond Queneau's Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes [144], Firefly presents many potential readings. |
| readingforms | Abstract Conclusion Navigation density Embedded Animated Selectively animated Function Ambiguous Graphic portions Icons Format Definition Method Reference Royal |
We distinguish between efferent (informational and promotional) and aesthetic (literary) sites to shed light on the possible efficacy of various types and decorations of anchors for varying purposes. |
| silicon | Numbers | Strickland's navigation in The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot [61] relies on a series of binary anchors for links within the web poem at the bottom of each screen. Anchors in this navigational schema thus have a connotative function, as the binary functions invoke the silicon, sand, computer navigation (Sand). |
| site vs works | Abstract Animated Decoration Moderate Nondistinguished Selectively animated Format Location Maps Menu Function Ambiguous Connotative Density Dense content Dense navigation Sparse Uniformity Primary Single |
Readers tend to view anchor clusters (i.e., maps and menus) as clues to the overall site. Denotative anchors are primarily found in efferent sites and in menus or maps of aesthetic works. |
| standard | Moderate | To address reader expectation, businesses are quick to jump on a standard where artists avoid boundaries. |
| study | Density | Yet this study found that regardless of the number of anchors per site, subjects activated fewer than ten per node. |
| Trend | Decoration | Anchors are often the most decorated part of a piece and thus usually drive the "look and feel" of a hypertext. |
| trellix | Pines | This work uses Trellix, a software program that designed websites with map views. The map here shows the thoughts branching down a pine. |