12.1 The notion of digital text
12.2 The reader
12.2.1 Perceptual discontinuity
12.2.2 The persons: user vs. reader
12.2.3 The actions: consulting vs. studying
12.2.4 Hyperlinks - informational and thematic
12.2.5 Reading and digital reading
12.3 The author
12.3.1 Structural discontinuity
12.3.2 The merging of the three levels
12.3.3 The new continuity
12.4 Digital discourse
12.4.1 "One long argument"
12.4.2 Tensionality
12.4.3 Reconfiguration
12.4.4 Centering and grammaticality
12.4.5 Self-declaration
12.5 The heightened perception
12.6 Compositional mechanisms
12.6.1 Pointers to compositional structure
12.6.2 The outer limits
12.6.3 The frame
12.6.4 Titled segmentation
12.6.5 Markers
12.6.6 Hyperlinks
12.6.7 The extended evidentiary basis
12.7 Bibliographical status
12.2.2 The persons: user vs. reader
For survey of the studies related to the different ways humans (and the human brain) react to reading paper compared to reading on a screen, see Jabr 2013 Paper Vs Screens.
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12.2.5 Reading and digital reading
How the internet changes the way we read: Carr N 2008 Internet To Our Brains, Jabr 2013 Paper Vs Screens and Cull 2011 Reading Revolutions.
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12.4.1 "One long argument"
The quotes from Darwin are on p. 492 of Darwin 1861 Origin (Origin, online at darwin-online.org.uk) and p. 140 of the Darwin 1958 Autobiography (Autobiography, online at darwin-online.org.uk).
The phrase “one long argument” has been used by Mayr 1991 Long as the title of his book on Charles Darwin.
Cf. reading online: Carr N 2008 Internet To Our Brains.
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12.5 The heightened perception
I argue for a precategorial sense of structure see Buccellati G 2016 Transcendental and Buccellati G X X X X Four.
On the disembodied dimension of the digital text see Hayles 1999 Posthuman and Hayles 2005 Mother.
Digitality affecting perception: Snyder 1998 Page To Screen.
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12.6.2 The outer limits
As an example of a website that is “partially concluded” see the Ebla texts in Cybernetica Mesopotamica. Linguistic Analysis of Akkadian.
Refer to “Ephemerides” in UGR - here or in ch. 14 (cf. also page “Ephemeris”); look also at Wayback Machine.
12.6.3 The frame
The Preface and the Introduction to this website serve as examples. The effect may be considered slightly provocative, in that encountering these terms in a website may at first blush seem anachronistic. In fact, the intent is precisely to stimulate (“provoke”) attention to the significance of the frame as enclosing a coherent whole.
12.6.6 Hyperlinks
Sokolowski 2008 Phenomenology: phenomenological concept of “manifold” relates to concept of hyperlinks.
Cf. hyperlinks in Carr N 2008 Internet To Our Brains.
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12.6.7 The extended evidentiary basis
The interweaving of evidence in this website illustrates the way in which the evidentiary basis can be managed beyond the limits of traditional footnoting. See the brief comments in the Introduction to the website; one should note in particular the way in which the annotated bibliography is integrated with the rest of the website.
12.7 Bibliographical status
For the notion of “punctuated equilibrium” see Eldredge & Gould 1972 Punctuated.
The term “ephemeris” was used in 1611 by Galileo to refer to the record of observations of the positions of the moons of Jupiter. For a recent popular presentation of this effort see Sobel 1995 Longitude, pp. 24-27. The term is in current use today in astronomy, but it was also used in the field of Semitic linguistics by M. Lidzbarski, Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik, 3 vols., Giessen 1902-1915, to refer to a collection of occasional papers (understood as journal entries).
For a similar concept implemented in other websites, see the Stanford Encyclopedia’s “Fixed Editions”.
For the notion of authority see the Asch conformity paradigm in psychology: S.E. Asch, ‘studies in the principles of judgments and attitudes: II. Determination of judgments by group and by ego-standards,” in Journal of Social Psychology, 12 (1940) 433-465; “The doctrine of suggestion, prestige and imitation in social psychology,” Psychological Review, 55 (1948) 250-276; “Effects of group pressure on the modification and distortion of judgments,” in H. Guetzkow (Ed.), Groups, leadership and men Pittsburgh: Carnegie Press, 1951, pp. 177-190.
The notion of “provenance” is linked to that of “authorship,” see also the notion of a “ladder of authority” (Berners- Lee &al 2008 Semantic).