A spider’s web vs a knitted scarf

The very last point of the week 7 reading is my favourite, where it talks about a plot being like a knitted scarf or a spider’s web. With the scarf you can tell where the beginning and end is, and there has so be a sequence or pattern the whole way through. However with a spider’s web you wouldn’t know where the beginning or end is unless you watched the spider weave it. It could be attached to multiple places and branch out to other trees or furniture. It is up to us to interpret its patterning. This sounds a lot like Networked media, where there is not distinct beginning and end, however everything is connected to each other. I like to say it is the same as hypertext/hyperlinking.

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