Ch. 6

U found chapter 6 to be very interesting. The chapter begins describing its key topic, "Network Writing". The chapter describes this as "electronic created for and published on the internet" (Rettberg, 152). This can be summed up in a variety of things, blog posts, social media, etc. Rettberg then goes on to describe the internet today, saying that it is full of videos and posts all playing as you scroll down your timeline, stating that the main focus of our attention is about the text. Rettberg makes an interesting point that with all of these new forms of digital media, our reading and writing skills have no increased. "One need not be a Luddite or curmudgeon to recognize problems that networked communications pose: phatic likes in the place of developed interpersonal communication, memes in the place of reasoned argumentation, aimless browsing in the place of immersive reading, perhaps even dialogue with scripted bots in place of interaction of human interlocutors" (Rettberg, 153). I thought that this statement was relevant to my generation and how people go about their time on the internet. This, in my opinion, was very accurate in describing the literary pursuit of action within my generation.

Ryan Donahue