Electronic Literature, Chapter 6: Network Writing
This research collection includes references from the sixth chapter of Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg (Polity, 2018), on Network Writing. Network writing is electronic literature created for and published on the Internet. It may require readers to visit multiple sites to experience the narrative, it may interrogate the nature and materiality of the network itself, it may use the Internet’s potential for collaboration, or use the network as a site for performance. For electronic literature, networks are both platform and material. As technology has led to rapid societal change, one of the most logical extensions of the project of electronic literature is to serve as a locus of reflexive critique of the position of the human within the technological apparatus.
This chapter of Electronic Literature considers various practices of network writing that share an interest in the material properties of the global network and the writing environments it affords. While this constellation of practices is admittedly less squarely defined than some of the other genres addressed in the book, as it includes several subgenres with their own specific approaches to the network, there are clearly important strands of electronic literature that primarily engage with the architecture, code, and social structures of the network itself.
People:
Name | Residency |
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Mesh Flinders |
United States
US
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Greg Goodfried |
United States
US
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Ian Bogost |
United States
US
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Teju Cole | |
Steve Tomasula |
South Bend
, IN
United States
Indiana US
|
Sue Thomas |
Leicester
United Kingdom
GB
|
Teri Hoskin |
Australia
AU
|
Noah Wardrip-Fruin |
Santa Cruz
, CA
United States
California US
|
Kate Pullinger |
London
United Kingdom
GB
|
Andy Campbell |
United Kingdom
GB
|
Brendan Howell |
Berlin
Germany
DE
|
Kathi Inman Berens |
Portland
, OR
United States
Oregon US
|
Alan Bigelow |
Buffalo
, NY
United States
New York US
|
Daniel C. Howe |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong S.A.R., China
HK
|
Mimi Cabell |
United States
US
|
Jason Huff |
United States
US
|
Helen Nissenbaum | |
Ben Grosser |
Urbana
, IL
United States
Illinois US
|
Mark Sample |
Davidson
, NC
United States
North Carolina US
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