Introduction to the Special Issue on Hypermedia Systems

This special issue brings together six contributions that explore the Web as a space where meaning is produced, negotiated, and preserved. Spanning topics such as digital archiving, generative AI, accessibility, and interactive narrative, the articles reflect a diversity of approaches while converging on a shared concern with how digital infrastructures shape expression and interpretation. Rather than offering a unified framework, the issue highlights key tensions—between scale and situated practices, human authorship and algorithmic generation, and inclusion and exclusion in digital memory—inviting a reconsideration of the Web as a sociotechnical system of meaning-making.