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The Study of Meta context

Lee Yong Wook 1

1전주대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper is an introduction to the future of texts triggered by hypertext theory. Since the publication of George P. Landow's 『Hypertext 2.0 - The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology』 in 1997, hypertext has become a keyword that symbolizes literary aesthetics in the digital era. But twenty years later, hypertext theory no longer produces meaningful discourse. Now Hypertext became hypermedia. The change from text to media means that we have been liberated from the centrality of character centrism that has dominated us for centuries. Although hypertext (non-mediated) uses digital technology called link and node, the visual representation style is displayed in the form of old medium called book, which makes text attention to technology rather than technology, but hypermedia Focus on technology rather than text, where levels are determined by understanding, intimacy, and proficiency. Hypertext is no longer valid as a keyword. It does not produce any aesthetic value or artistic meaning, only to the technical concept of electronic linking of text through links and nodes. With the advancement of digital technology, we no longer recognize hypertext as an unfamiliar, odd, and new form. As technology evolves, text in hypertext becomes blurred. This researcher proposes the concept of meta - context as a new aesthetic keyword to replace hypertext. The meta-context, which means "the total reproduction of the context that encompasses everything beyond boundaries and distinctions," restores self-reflection through the restoration of the totality and by using hypertext technology as a means of improving literacy, It is the outcome of the recognition conversion that overcomes the boundaries and exclusions that have been.

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