Now You Can Get Lost w/ Scholarly Journals

I can admit it for my entire millenial generation. We indeed to do have the attention-span of squirrels. In a day in age where there are explosions of information popping up from everywhere, publishers and authors are finding ways to keep our brains even more scatter-brained with the use of multi-layered linked content. We already see this being done non-academically with platforms such as Youtube. Nine out of ten times when you watch a YouTube video, they will refer to even

more information in the Video Description as well as YouTube will recommend even more videos on the right side of the page. You could search "Superbowl 50 Half-Time Show" and end up watching videos about red pandas.

How do I know this? Call it "recent public experience."

Academic journals have recognized the effectivness creating hyperlinked information and have begun to implement them in academia. Cherl Ball and Douglas Eyman write in their article Editorial Workflow for Multimedia Rich Scholarship state "A webtext might have 50 interconnected files that live on a journal's web server (for archival purposes) as opposed to a word-processing document or PDF with 1-2 image files included as supplemental information that comprise one flattened document." Even the article itself is an example of this new move towards webtext, as their article is filled with external hyperlinks leading you to even more information.