Jane relives her high school days of playing the ‘Wikipedia game’ – a game where you use the hyperlinks on Wikipedia to navigate between two different Wikipedia pages regarding two completely separate subjects. This demonstrates the continuous linkages between elements of web 2.0 and the unique affordances of hypertext.

Amy discusses the relationship between online databases and the web of networked media. She shows that new media objects do not tell stories due to their lack of a beginning, middle and end. However is it possibly more that network media changes the way stories are structured and the endless linkages between the narrative elements of network media enable a continuous flow of stories?

Evan refers to Matt Kulesza‘s efforts to interact with all 1,000 of his Facebook friends in reality, in order to remove the definite distinction between human interaction online and in ‘the real world’. It is interesting to evaluate your own online friendship network in comparison to the people you surround yourself with in person, to identify the amount of unnecessary content evident in a medium that contemporary socialising surrounds itself with.