The World Wide Web
is split into two medians there are those who see internet as a source of
information and knowledge known as Structuralists. Then there are also those
who see it as a pure source of entertainment known as presentationalists. Structuralists believes that everything on
the internet is meant to ease the lives of the over stressed human beings. They
also believe in individuality, that the document and its presentation is best
left to the user itself, his interface or device. And HTML is a universal
language describing the language of the document. They view the internet as a
universal interface which is accessible anytime, anywhere.
Presentationalists
on the other hand want to have perfect control over their narratives they think
that HTML should precisely
portray the web designer’s vision pixel-for-pixel, as it is solely a medium for
art and entertainment. They see the future world wide web as a kin to some kind
of interactive super television. Although
these are the two extremes of the internet but very few users are this
extremists. Most of the users tend to be
realists. We prefer experience over information, internet these days is used
more for entertainment purposes rather than information gaining. But it does
not negate the fact that internet is not being used for information gaining.
There are many individuals and entities that are constantly searching the World
Wide Web for the sake of information gaining and sharing. Now a day’s there are
many universities present on the internet offering distant learning courses.
Distant learning and online electronic library is relatively a new concept,
let’s talk about old archives of different information entities for example,
universities, libraries, Wikipedia etc. this information bubble is growing day
by day with online blogs, video blogs, articles, TED talk, public forums etc.
there are more informational website on the internet then in the past and they
are increasing in number day by day. The debate between presentationalists and
Structuralists will go on, there might not be any limit to who won or who lost
but rather it will be a war of perception; Experience or information?
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