I blog and therefore I am. Not a strange statement within the contemporary digitalised era in which we all have to twitter, facebook or blog. Why? To show the world that we are important enough, that we matter? I would say there is more going on in this practice of computer mediated communication than merely showing off. As any basic theory on digitial media would say, interaction with a computer is merely a way for us to deal with ourselves through a different medium (see Lister et. al or Lev Manovich on new media). A newer way to understand and gaze at the self through the other.
Then, what is this tendency of writing or better said: inscribing oneself onto the world wide web? The practice of novelisation, would be my answer. As we have seen in the past, literature has adapted itself to move and mutate along with rising new media. And the internet is merely a new and different technology that the practice of literature has mutate along with. While the internet brings us the possibility to participate and the publicise our own life writing, it is logical to see that it leads to us actually parttaking of such an endeavour.
More answers and insights to this question, soon. Fanfiction, convergence culture and the text in the day and age of the visual will not go unmentioned.
