Notas sobre el acto de leer y escribir a partir del hipertexto: ámbito universitario

Abstract

This essay collects some preliminaries notes about the development of an etnographic research which is carried out at the present time with undergraduate students of the Humanities and Education Faculty of the Education School of the University of the Andes, Merida-Venezuela. The general proposal of the research is to investigate and determine how some behaviors of the student as a reader and writer are characterized from the use of the hypertext within sociocultural practices realized in the academic universitary environment. Some orientated reflections about the nature of the hypertext vinculated with the behavior of the usuaries as readers and writers under a sociocultural perspective are presented. Additionally is shown, grosso modo, an angle of the significance of the alphabetization in the actual times under the light of the apparition of the new information and communication technologies.