Wardrip-Fruin,+Noah.+Writing+Networks.

=**Wardrip-Fruin, Noah. Writing Networks: New Media, Potential Literature.** = //Leonardo.//Vol. 29, No. 5. "Fourth Annual New York Digital Salon." (1996). Pp. 355-73 odd.

**Abstract ** ==This article shows the process of writing for new media through an author’s point of view. It discusses the different types of writings for; the World Wide Web, the OuLiPo, and two technologies developed by the New York University Media Research Laboratory. ==

**Argument ** ==Wardrip’s argument is that there are many different types of creation for writing and communicating ideas with writing in other forms. He makes the claim that using the different types of new media is the only way to truly communicate in a world of new media and technologies. If writers do not take advantage of the new media and push the limits of new technologies then they will be stuck in an old form of communication. ==

**Key Passages ** ==“I have given some thought as to how one might seek such an effect with new media tools—these tools that allow authors to show connections, to create structures, more literally. (361)” == ==“In the electronic text, connections are as central as any other element of the undertaking, and it is the fact that makes the issue of egalitarian network access so fundamental. The freedom to write is becoming intimately intertwined with the ability to link. (371)” == ==“The reasons for connections, the overall manner of operation of connections, is what must be most closely considered. (371)” ==

**Selected Works Cited ** Please see page 373.

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