Cyberdiscursivity is a theory of computer-mediated communication (CMC) that extends Walter J. Ong's concept of orality, literacy and secondary orality to hypertexts. The prefix "cyber" suggests that CMC is computer-based or "virtual", which means unrelated to print. "Discursivity" offers a double meaning: that of "discourse" as in a type of communication, and that of "discursive" meaning random (see "dynamic," "emergent," and "" below).

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  • Cyberdiscursivity is a theory of computer-mediated communication (CMC) that extends Walter J. Ong's concept of orality, literacy and secondary orality to hypertexts. The prefix "cyber" suggests that CMC is computer-based or "virtual", which means unrelated to print. "Discursivity" offers a double meaning: that of "discourse" as in a type of communication, and that of "discursive" meaning random (see "dynamic," "emergent," and "" below). A User of a CMC system experiences cyberdiscursivity when experience with reading printed material does not prepare the user for the differences encountered in a hypertext environment, such as failed sites, denied access, or confusing text (ex. text that looks like a link but is not one, called an Escher Effect). The instant changeability of CMC challenges the literate mindset by being dynamic (the source immediately displays new, usually disparate, material), emergent (the structure develops as the pages are accessed), and ' (the user determines some of the organization). These elements mimic the reading process to a point, but the process of hypertext violates the expected outcome. The hypertext looks like a print text but does not "act" like one. These challenges create the epistemological state of cyberdiscursivity.
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  • Cyberdiscursivity is a theory of computer-mediated communication (CMC) that extends Walter J. Ong's concept of orality, literacy and secondary orality to hypertexts. The prefix "cyber" suggests that CMC is computer-based or "virtual", which means unrelated to print. "Discursivity" offers a double meaning: that of "discourse" as in a type of communication, and that of "discursive" meaning random (see "dynamic," "emergent," and "" below).
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  • Cyberdiscursivity
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