Hypertext device for forensic text in courtroom context
In a hypertext device for forensic text in courtroom context, the anchor rarely defines the nature of the link which it maintains with the target, the information to which it points. But navigation cannot be reduced to successive actions carried out on links. It is a rich and complex activity made up for the reader of defined waiting horizons, of cognitive patterns which are sometimes largely implicit and which function as frameworks of coherence. Thus, the hypertext link, which generates so much disorientation in an activity of information research and in the exploitation of documents with informative, explanatory or argumentative value, can turn out to be a formidable narrative efficiency in a narrative interactive. The interactive narrative is a particularly relevant object for understanding the way in which the frames inherited from a traditional form of reading are invested in the digital field, which are a source of coherence but which are simultaneously seen to be profoundly renewed by the exploitation of certain properties of hypertext devices for forensic text in courtroom context.