The hypertext news and the links: a case study

Abstract

The present article aims to analyze the role of the links in online news. The objective is to show that these connections act as coherence factors. Besides they are strategic constructed to contextualize the electronic text through the referent selection. Two journalistic institutions, the Brazilian Folha Online and the German FAZ.Net were chosen for a contrastiv analysis. This make possible the viewing of differences not only concerned to the hypertext construction, but also in respect to the journalistic practice.