No-Linealidad

Algunas citas (en inglés) que leí este fin de semana sobre el tema tratado última clase. En clase lo discutimos para asegurar que los que no dominen el idioma lo entiendan:

Aarseth defines a non-linear text as ‘one in which the words or sequences of words may differ from reading to reading because of the shape, conventions or mechanism of the text’ (1994:51). Therefore a linear text is then seen as a specific case of non-linear text that is by convention read from the beginning to the end. Importantly, he makes a distinction between (non-)linearity of the narrative, in this case a story that a reader constructs from a text, and (non-)linearity of the text structure itself. (p. 44)

Texts form through a system of references, whether by clicking on links that appear on the screen of a media device or by activating previous knowledge, tradition and prejudice in the reader – the active process of choice making and evaluating those references is the same. (p. 44-5)

Extraído de:
Bilandzic, H.; Patriarche, G.; Traudt, P. (2012) The Social Use of Media: Cultural and Social Scientific Perspectives on Audience Research. Chicago: Intellect.