Interactive vs Cybertext - What's the difference?
interactive | cybertext |
Acting with each other.
(computer science) Responding to the user.
A feature (as in a museum) that can be interacted with.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 26, author=Laurel Graeber, title=Spare Times: For Children, work=New York Times
, passage=The show includes computer interactives , animation, models and live parakeets (for an exercise in species identification). }}
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(uncountable) text on a computer, particularly hypertext
* {{quote-book, 2002, title=Women's studies then and now, author=Cheryl J Fish, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin
, passage=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
(uncountable) mutually interactive, technologically enhanced text as described by Aareth.
* {{quote-book, 2005, title=Theory into poetry: new approaches to the lyric, author=Eva Müller-Zettelmann, Margarete Rubik
, passage=Procedural and generative cybertext work undermines the concept of authorship and encourages the discussion about 'cyborg authorship'}}
(countable) A specific example of cybertext.
* {{quote-book, 1999, title=Systems development methods for databases, enterprise modeling, and workflow management, author=Wita Wojtkowski
, passage=The sense of mystory[sic] opens up for academics the conceptual space of allowing students a singular journey through a cybertext.}}
As nouns the difference between interactive and cybertext
is that interactive is a feature (as in a museum) that can be interacted with while cybertext is (uncountable) text on a computer, particularly hypertext.As an adjective interactive
is acting with each other.interactive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Two interactive systems.
- Interactive user interface
Derived terms
* interaction * interactivityNoun
(en noun)citation