Hypertextuality, multimedia and bidirectionality in the software for mobile devices: a critical review

Abstract

Smartphone has been consolidated as the preferred gadget to access to information, according to Digital News Report (2020). By the other side, it’s been years the media explore the potential of the apps in this kind of devices, in order to avoid people accessing to desktop versions from smartphones and tablets. In this context, it is pertinent doing a critical review about the main characteristics related to the digital media: hipertextuality, multimedia and interactivity. Specifically, about its aplication in apps designed natively for mobile devices. Do they behave in the same way? The enunciation of this three characteristics corresponds to the early stages of the digital journalism, prior to the irruption of smartphones and tablets in the tech market; many years before the media began to think in logical formats adapted to the new phisical devices. In this work, we examine this three concepts from the point of view of the the mobile-devices-journalism.