One of the main thrusts hypertexts theorists of recent years have emphasized is that the medium is not the message. The notion that working in one format will be an enlightening experience by itself is dubious...

Through critically reading and questioning and juxtaposing texts in hypermedia format, students may see more clearly those aspects of society that they would seek to change. But ... even though the electronic space may support critical constructivist, empowering, negotiating thought, the pedagogical context and the authoring traditions students bring to hypermedia may result in the use of the electronic space to reproduce culturally dominant meanings about the world. (McKillop & Myers 66)