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An informand is the object-event produced by an interactive communications technology in its social application. A hypertext at work in its discourse community (i.e. one that is being read, discussed, criticized, and rewritten) is an informand. The contours of an invidual hypertext (the momentary structures of coherence and possibility apparent to the reader as she interacts with the structure) are also informands.
However, this document is an object, not an object-event. It is therefore like the shadow of a three-dimensional object, simply a planar approximation, flat and obscure. If you are reading this discourse in print you are reading the shadow of a shade, as Borges or Nabokov or somebody like that might have said.