English

Noun

cybertext ‎(plural cybertexts)

1. (countable, uncountable) Text on a computer, particularly hypertext
   • 1999, Wita Wojtkowski, Systems development methods for databases, enterprise modeling, and workflow management:

     The sense of mystory^[sic] opens up for academics the conceptual space of allowing students a singular journey through a cybertext.

   • 2002, Cheryl J Fish, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Women's studies then and now:

     Cybertext may promote such a strong feeling of distance between readers, writers, and texts that referentiality to material conditions is downplayed. The very physical act of holding a book and turning its pages-in a sense, much more interactive than clicking a mouse […]

2. (uncountable) Mutually interactive, technologically enhanced text as described by Aareth.
   • 2005, Eva Müller-Zettelmann, Margarete Rubik, Theory into poetry: new approaches to the lyric:

     Procedural and generative cybertext work undermines the concept of authorship and encourages the discussion about 'cyborg authorship'

See also

• hypertext
• cybertext on Wikipedia.Wikipedia