| Author | Mark Marino and Rob Wittig |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Web fiction, Netprov, Electronic literature |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Publication place | US |
#1WkNoTech was a netprov run in 2014 and 2015, led by Mark Marino and Rob Wittig.
Content
Participants "pretended to use no technology for a week and documented the 'experiment' obsessively in social media". Participants used Twitter, a fictional organisational website, a fictional Facebook page and private google docs to organise the storytelling.
#1WkNoTech has been described as a parody of "a situation that often occurs on social media where a Facebook or Twitter user loudly declares that they have had enough of the information overload and are going offline for a while to recuperate". Instead of going offline, the participants of #1WkNoTech spend time on the very sites they have disavowed. The netprov was well-suited for "partial reading" since its aesthetic experience depended on the mass of tweets rather than a particular storyline.
References
- Wittig, Rob; Marino, Mark C. (2017). "Occupy the Emotional Stock Exchange, Resisting the Quantifying of Affection in Social Media". Humanities. 6 (2): 33. doi:10.3390/h6020033. ISSN 2076-0787.
- Miller, Makaila (2014-03-14). "A week without technology". The Statesman. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
- Rettberg, Scott (2019). Electronic literature. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. ISBN 978-1-5095-1681-0. OCLC 1038024013.
- Skains, R. Lyle (2023). Neverending stories: the popular emergence of digital fiction. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-5013-6491-4. OCLC 1341268134.
- Klobucar, Andrew, ed. (2021). The community and the algorithm : a digital interactive poetics. Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-64889-311-7. OCLC 1261364273.
External links
- Entry in ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base: "#1wkNoTech| ELMCIP". elmcip.net. Retrieved 2023-04-29.