Networking Narratives

Jordan Ashby

Image One: Open Source Software Defined Networking Projects to Know 

New networked narratives allow for many new and different possibilities within the realm of expectation. “Changes in digital technology have also changed certain qualities of networked narratives, these changes raise questions about the real and the virtual” (PowerPoint Lecture, 2017). Networked narratives are an open connected course of digital storytelling, world building, civic imagination and a bit of digital alchemy (Mark, 2017). We as a society focus so much on just the space where we share the photos we post and the captures we right we don’t go into depths about whether the area we are sharing them in is safe. We get so caught up in the moment we forget about the real we forgot about the virtual reality we have just shared and who out there is watching. As times have moved on and up the realm of the internet has gotten exceptionally bigger but we don’t know whether that is for the better. There is this certain power in the space and place we share whether it be real or not and we truly don’t know who has that power or whether it can be passed onto different kinds of people. It’s really scary to think that the images I share are going to a vastly larger space and place then what I intend or even know.

I could post a slightly revealing image and place a hashtag on it which opens it up to a much bigger audience and then how do I monitor it to know exactly where it goes. The question is I can’t. I don’t know where it goes or how far it goes or how many screens it is shown upon and I guess that’s the beauty of the Internet or Instagram I could get my image to somebody in England or just somebody down the road. It really is amazing. There are many different narratives you could be entangled in but it depends what audience you want to portray. Life narrative itself is both heavily invested in the humanist subject (McNeill, Laura, 2012). We are here to say keep your blogs idling, your twitter accounts revved and your bots still going because there will be a new round of networked narratives (#netnarr, n/a).

One of the central sources of online auto/biographical production has become the now-ubiquitous social networking site (McNeill, Laura, 2012). It’s important to know the networking narrative you want to portray and then portray that. Instagram is a great virtual reality network which allows for many people to be represented in either a real or virtual way whatever you want to show on your profile you get the opportunity to do it within respect to the Instagram rules.

References:

Dean, Sam. (2017). 5 Open Source Software Defined Networking Projects to Know. Retrieved from https://www.linux.com/news/open-cloud-report/2016/5-open-source-software-defined-networking-projects-know

McNeill, Laurie. (2012). There Is No "I" in Network: Social Networking Sites and Posthuman Auto/Biography. Lecture 6: Networked Narratives [Readings]. Retrieved from https://masterfile.jcu.edu.au/masterfile6/jsp/viewfile.jsp?as_session_id=32231121C36E5CC17D535FF1EF864DC62DD15CB&as_id_nr=65005&as_page_nr=1&file_type=.pdf&as_acknowledge=Y

Netnarr. (n/a). Elements of Networked Narratives. Retrieved from http://netnarr.arganee.world/