Agency Among Agents: Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the Algorithmic Web
This Blue Skies paper advances Hypertextual Friction—a design stance treating friction, traceability, and structure as values for reclaiming agency in algorithmically mediated web systems.
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10.1145/3720533.3750065
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979-8-4007-1533-4
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Agency Among Agents: Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the Algorithmic Web
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3720533.3750065
authors
Sophia Liu, Shm Garanganao Almeda
doi_url
https://doi.org/10.1145/3720533.3750065
license
© 2025 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
summary
This Blue Skies paper advances Hypertextual Friction—a design stance treating friction, traceability, and structure as values for reclaiming agency in algorithmically mediated web systems.
keywords
user agency, hypertext, generative AI, algorithmic interfaces, AI agents, interface friction, creative tools
arxiv_url
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23585
published
2025-09-15
conference
HT Adjunct ’25: Adjunct Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Chicago, IL, USA
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30-34
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3720533.3750065
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Human-centered computing~Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms; Human-centered computing~Hypertext / hypermedia; Computing methodologies~Philosophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence
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Sophia Liu, Shm Garanganao Almeda
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2025-09-15 to 2025-09-19
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