Introduction

The hypertext I’m going to analyze is called “The Color of Television” , it is written by Moulthrop a hypertext writer, teacher and Web designer, and by Sean Choen, a perpetual student. This piece looks like a labyrinth: you know where it begins but then you can lose yourself through its links, it looks so confused and it makes the reader disorientated. In my view a receiver, in order to understand its meaning, has to read it more times. It has a color-based structure and you don’t realize it at first approach to the text. The piece is based on different stories but the main one is about Harry and Lorrain. They are homeowners, nonsmokers, Presbyterians, aged 43 and 38, married for six years and seven months next Thursday.

In this hypertext the stories, the places and also the spaces change , so that the user is led through them.

Besides zapping is the main element , this because it gives a sense to the confusion that the user feels: in fact reading the hypertext you can follow a path thanks to nodes that are between the text’s words. Therefore, reading The color of television hypertext you can feel the sensation that you are channel-surfing.

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Academic year 2008/2009
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