@Ejspark in answer to your question:
- “Bad Character: Who do We Want our Hypertexts to Be?” by Mark Bernstein. Paper, slides.
- “Docuverse Despatch: Information Farming for the Collective” by Mark Anderson. Paper, slides.
FWIW, both papers were in the ‘Blue Sky’ track so observation pieces rather than primary research. The 31 years of the ACM Hypertext conference (in the ACM Digital Library) do have a wealth of papers on/about hypertext from the purely technical through to the creative/literary side.
Unless directly related to this and to avoid thread drift, if there are questions relating to the above papers I’d suggest raising them in a new thread. 
I may yet split out your post and my reply into a new thread.