When digital media is perceived only as a tool to deliver content the potential for
using its affordances to explore meaning is lost. Rather than seeing media only as
an access point, we can view it as a way to enhance the expressiveness of content.
Today blogs, wikis, messaging, mash-ups, and social media (Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube and others) offer authors ways to create narrative meaning that refl ects
our new media culture. We can look to the past for similarities and parallels to
better understand how to use social media as a creative tool with which to
dialogue, collaborate, and create interactive narratives.
