The main impact of new media technologies on story and narrative is the fact that they offer more interactivity, mainly through hypertext and hypermedia. Hypertext can be defined as

‘Words, images and sounds linked by multiple paths in an open-ended perpetually unfinished form (Hypertext, 3)…Words and images are not only a part of the "page" in front of you but can serve as a link to another page and so on and so forth.’ (Davidson, 2001)

‘Dynamic multimedia objects that have hyper textual aspects. As Landow and Delany note, hypermedia is a multimedia extension of hypertext that is more complex and interactive, integrating visual and auditory experiences as well as texts and link

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