Network Writing

    Out of all the chapters in Scott Rettberg's book Electronic Literature chapter 6, Network Writing was the most interesting to me by far. Especially after working on our electronic literature analysis project, I feel like I learned a lot more about the project that I personally studied as well as my classmates. It was nice learning about the various examples of network writing visually this week through presentations, but as well as reading it in our textbook. Network writing can be found all over the Internet where it is published in various forms of electronic literature (Rettberg 152). Network writing encourages its readers and writers to collaborate with each other. It helps us analyze the way we function with networks and society (Rettberg 182). There are so many forms of network writing such as blogs, code work, email novels, twitter fiction, and collective narratives to name a few. As I read this chapter, I learned a lot more about the author of my project I am analyzing, Rob Wittig. I learned about another project he worked on called Occupy MLA where he collaborated with Mark C. Marino. They started a movement that included over three thousand tweets where they addressed issues impacting non-tenure track (NNT) and other matters. I noticed how passionate Rob is on the matter of higher education and continued to look into more of his work.

 

    From this chapter I choose to learn more about American Psycho written by Mimi Cabell and Jason Huff in 2012. The two creators published a version of American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis'. Rettberg's describes how the project was created, ".... did not include any of the text of the novel but instead a series of headlines and annotations for web-based ads on each page, which is otherwise blank." (Rettberg 180) The point of this project was to show how Google reads peoples emails and adds in specific ads based on the conversation within the email. They choose American Psycho because it is a violent book and wanted to see what Google came up with which included knife advertisements.

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  1. Dr. MMarch 26, 2023 at 4:11 PM

    That is a pretty creepy experiment. Maybe we should all use Gwen's Trackmenot!

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