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Hypermedia Online Publishing: the Transformation of the Scholarly Journal

1.4.1 Artefacts

The communications artefacts are chiefly articles and the journals that contain them. The interaction between form and function is quite a complex one. Form and function influence (but rarely determine) each other. As an example particular journal forms (such as richly hypertextual articles) predispose their readers to particular activities (in this case ready following of links to related material) in ways that alternative forms may not. The specific research questions relating to the artefacts in this thesis were:

What transformations (if any) will occur in the form of the scholarly journal as it moves into an online hypermedia environment?
Will the move into an online hypermedia environment alter the functions of the scholarly journal?

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