Navigation Instructions

On this page, I make a few suggestions that might make life easier as you move around within this hypertext thesis. Enjoy the freedom to be a co-constructor with me of this bricolage. Remember:

This will challenge the traditional relationship between the reader and the writer. In the electronic spaces of hypertext, readers become writers, bricoleurs, who construct the text out of the bits and pieces and chunks of materials left for them by the writer.

(Denzin & Lincoln, 1994, p. 583)

When I wrote the above, I had imagined your role as like a Lego® constructor, putting together - in different ways, for your own purposes and guided by your own aesthetic sense - the pieces of text I had already molded.

I want to thank Chris Macrae for suggesting another possibility - that you, as a reader of this thesis, might also like the opportunity to take on a writer's role. For this reason, I've added a new page; a kind of 'collaboration space' in which you can add to the text. For want of a better title, I've continued the bricolage/collage metaphor, and called it the Gluing Room (not to be confused with the glue factory!) I hope you'll take the opportunity to contribute, even if it's only to introduce yourself.

Instructions

1. Whenever a footnote occurs in the text, it appears as a hyperlink (a superscript numeral in brackets⁽¹⁾). (OK, follow the link!)

2. The Table of Contents should be your 'centre' as you move through the text. All of the chapter headings and sub-headings on that page are hyperlinks to the relevant sections of the text.

3. At the top and bottom of each page is a navigation bar. This will take you to the Table of Contents, forward one chapter (or page, in the case of the abstract, acknowledgements and title pages for sections) or back one chapter from your present 'location'. (That is, from Chapter Three you can move forward to Chapter Four or back to Chapter Two, not back to the last chapter you were reading.) The bar will also bring you to this instructions page, the abstract, or the beginning of Section One, Two or Three.

4. Further, at the bottom of each chapter is a large, clear link to the next chapter. (Except this one, because I don't know when you'll read these instructions, and of course they don't have a place in the paper text. Similarly, the 'Last Chapter' and 'Next Chapter' buttons on this page are not active.)

5. You can use the 'Back' button of your browser to return you to the section you were reading before you followed a hyperlink. If you have a good browser (read 'Netscape 4'!) it will return you to very nearly the same place in the page, not just to the beginning of the same chapter.

1. For each footnote, there is a link under the note that says (and will take you):
   Back to your place in the text.