Phantom Links: Filling the Gap in Link SemanticsThis paper introduces phantom links: indexical, intratextual references that point to specific elements within a text or story without providing an explicit navigational pathway.
doi
10.1145/3800935.3830888
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979-8-4007-2564-7
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Phantom Links: Filling the Gap in Link Semantics
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800935.3830888
authors
Mariusz Pisarski
doi_url
https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830888
license
CC BY 4.0
summary
This paper introduces phantom links: indexical, intratextual references that point to specific elements within a text or story without providing an explicit navigational pathway.
keywords
intratextuality; phantom links; diegetic links; hypertext theory; narrative structure; intertextuality
published
2026-09-14
conference
HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3800935.3830888
ccs_concepts
CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Hypertext / hypermedia ; • Applied computing → Interactive narrative ;
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Mariusz Pisarski
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3800935
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2026-09-14
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ACM Reference Format: Mariusz Pisarski. 2026. Phantom Links: Filling the Gap in Link Semantics. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 7 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830888