Galin, Jeffrey R. and Joan Latchaw. «Heterotopic spaces online: A new paradigm for academic scholarship and publication». Kairos 3.1 (1998) < http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/3.1/binder2.html?coverweb/galin/index.htm> 30 January 2014.

Galin and Latchaw have explored electonic networked alternatives to the print model of academic publishing. The paper falls in three main parts, which are presented in a linear structure using buttons marked «back» and «forward.» First they discuss the working of archives in the view of Foucault’s metaphor of heterotopia. Then they describe and discuss five different online repositories of research articles, before the last section draws up four possible solutions for the future.

Each secition has sub-nodes and sub-sub-nodes, forming what is essentially a stretchtext.

Unless a reader carefully studies the page with the table of contents, this structure has to be discovered, as it is rather hidden in the text, something I find unfortunate.

The page «What is an archive», for example, has seven links in the text, underlined and set in green letters.

Three of them are to references in the list of works cited. This can be exoected, as they are in parentheses after quotes. The four other links all lead to sub-pages in this section. When following a link, the reader will find a page expanding on the theme under discussion in the paragraph s/he just left, with a «back» link at the bottom of the page. Some of these sub-pages have similar links to sub-sub pages.

The page «Heterotopic Websites» is interesting: It needs in fact to be read twice. First as a list of links to the five databases it discusses, then again, for the discussion of the databases. It is an example of the web being content and interface at the same time.