How to Use hypermedia in a Sentence

hypermedia

noun
  • Online browsing is an obvious example of this new type of accessing hypermedia.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • This entry defines and discusses hypermedia and hypertext making a necessary distinction between the two terms.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • The third part explains how the nonlinear hypermedia context is defined by the personalized navigation activity of the hypertext users.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • For this purpose, hypermedia is defined here as the complex technology that enables multimedia communication through hypertexts.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Users navigate because hypertexts enable them to choose and (re)adjust their own pathways, while exploring content chunks and mentally mapping their movements across the nonlinear and manifold structures in the environment of hypermedia.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Undoubtedly, fair access to information and dialogue participation in hypermedia context can also be hindered in some countries by sheer forms of censorship or surveillance that have nothing to do with adaptive media.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Researchers will need to reassess continually both the gains and the losses related to new developments of hypertext and hypermedia in order to keep pace with and respond to the continuous, daunting, and all-encompassing changes of the communications landscape.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • This contemporary multiliterate user thus has the competency of understanding and strategically employing the multimodal interactions of these modes to create meaning in the context of hypermedia.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Being multiliterate also implies that the contemporary hypertext and hypermedia user is endowed with a capacity of discernment regarding which semiotic modes can be most efficiently employed to carry a specific communicative load.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • The tremendous impacts of hypertext and hypermedia upon contemporary communication are to be found at cognitive, semiotic, political, economic, and social levels, and therefore, a wide array of viewpoints have to be taken into consideration.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • However, enthusiastically advocating for the empowering benefits of hypertext and hypermedia or skeptically warning against their manipulative potentials might not be the only available choice.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Although the concept of multiliteracy can be considered as incorporating digital literacy too, in the context of this discussion, it should be mentioned separately because a hypertext user needs first of all digital skills in order to manage multimodal ensembles in hypermedia context.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Such adverse implications might threaten to deteriorate the democratic essence of hypertext and hypermedia, namely, the multilinear access to manifold information and the subsequent possibility of collaborative knowledge building across any kinds of boundaries and borders.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • The technological innovations that have made possible the appearance of hypertext and hypermedia have sometimes been assessed in various research communities as either emancipatory or oppressive, and the discussion of their impacts upon communication has also been polarized.
    Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026

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