Issues of Sequence in Converging Media: Studying World Wide Web documentaries
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The paper reports on a study where three print articles, three television documentaries, and three Web sites by the National Geographic Society were compared, to see what constitutes linearity, and whether nonlinearity takes the place of linearity in Web media.Devices of transition, disposition, and linking are studied, as well as aspects of narration. The Web sites proved to be linked in a manner that most of the time only allows a linear reading.
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