Ch.6 - Network Writing

Networks are both platform and material in electronic literature. Readers need to visit multiple sites to experience the full narrative. The main component of the networking experience is the text but video, audio, images, animations are also included in the process. Network writing also aims to tell a story across its platforms. They often involve writing, solving puzzles and included many forms of social networking. A big aspect involved in network writing is the collaboration. Having group narratives where people can add on different parts of the story creates for a collective activity rather than having one single narrator. Twitter fiction is really interesting to me. It is a pretty new form of story writing that people can come up with a short story in 140 characters of less in a tweet. It's a new way for authors to be more engaged with their readers and can get feedback through the comments It allows for authors to challenge themselves artistically and I really liked this idea.


Sofia