Network Writing

This chapter was easier to understand than others have been. Network writing is pretty basic is when text is made specifically for the Internet. It can be interactive and collaborative like if you were posting things on social media or sending emails back and forth. I find this really cool because every day the internet has something new, it's constantly changing therefore the form of literature is too. Network writing really highlights having more than one author. The author is more of a participant instead of being the one and only creator. This form created such a huge shift in the ways people are able to create and contribute media for the public to see. Rettberg talks about how the idea of combining hypertext with the elements of digital literature. It was created with the modern day and future in mind, making it easy to process the material. The material consisted of artistic movements. For example, the artist Jackson Pollock emphasized the physical act of painting. Which showed that meaning can come from anything, including technique. One of the stories mentioned and the one I chose to look at was Flight Paths which was created by Kate Pulling and Chris Joseph & Co. It follows two characters, a man who is trying to escape from Dubai to get a job and a woman who goes to the store. When he falls out of a plane and lands on the lady's car, the stories intertwine. I thought it was an interesting creative choice to have him fall out of a plane. This story was easy to understand and piece together. I liked how the story was formatted. I didn't realize till about halfway into the story that there was sound, I think it added a cool aspect to it. 

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