How to Use hypertext in a Sentence

hypertext

noun

• The web, by contrast, was free, easy to use, and, thanks to hypertext, infinitely flexible.
  — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
• From Text to Hypertext Briefly, hypertext cannot be defined as just an electronic format of text.
  — Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• Berners-Lee’s more pragmatic idea was to use hypertext to enhance online collaboration.
  — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
• On the other hand, the users of hypertext can also build knowledge by designing their own hypertext when editing or adding (networks of) links or content chunks to an existing hypertext.
  — Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• Additionally, reading via social media or online hypertext can cause the body to follow a dopamine cycle, rather than allowing the body to relax, Helmick said.
  — Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
• The first part outlines the transition from text to hypertext, highlighting the dynamic and hypermodal character of hypertext.
  — 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
• This dynamic character of hypertext generates a more or less permanent state of ephemerality, which cannot be encountered in any traditional text.
  — Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• Obviously, the users can also opt for surfing’s rapid digressions due to the overwhelming and disorienting number of choices that they are confronted with when accessing a hypertext.
  — 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
• The linear and hierarchical progression of a traditional text is replaced in hypertext by a series of alternative pathways that allow access to content chunks or nodes by means of electronic links.
  — Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• These texts can include a wide range of hybrid generic structures from interactive websites, wikis, and blogs to interactive fiction and games, which would not have been possible to design before the appearance of hypertext affordances.
  — Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• Scholars define hypertext as an array of meaning-making practices and suggest that its dynamic and interactive character is related to how it can be accessed and how it can be continuously assembled.
  — Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• These empowering opportunities provoke an unprecedented blurring of boundaries between them and the hypertext’s designers as far as authorship is concerned.
  — 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
• The second part addresses the hypertext’s multilinear, multiauthored, and multimodal character in order to explain the transition from text readers to hypertext users.
  — Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• Hypermedia can thus be described 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
• The networking and collaboration activities that can take place when accessing and designing hypertext are also able to give birth to heterogeneous communities dispersed across geopolitical, cultural, and social borders too.
  — 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
• 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, in hypertext environment, the interplay of modes has been accelerated and intensified by technological developments that allow new multimodal configurations to appear.
  — Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• From Reading to Navigating Another consequence of the transition from text to hypertext is related to the fact that the action performed by a user interacting with hypertext can no longer be labeled as simple reading but as hyperreading or navigating.
  — 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
• From Text Readers to Hypertext Users The quantum leap from linear traditional text to hypertext has a series of far-reaching consequences related to hypertext’s multilinear, multiauthored, and multimodal character.
  — Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026