Ah, I think I’ve found a blogish kind of Web page that is somewhat analogous to the exploration of story/narrative I’m trying to conduct with this blog.
In 2004, Jill Walker started researching distributed narratives. She uses this page to track her progress on the project.
Her paper, Distributed Narrative: Telling Stories Across Networks, which I admit I haven’t totally digested yet, is available in a 10-page version, a 20-page version (these first two are PDFs; you can download them at her page above), and as a Web version of slides.
Walker writes:
“Distributed narratives don’t bring media together to make a total artwork. Distributed narratives explode the work altogether, sending fragments and shards across media, through the network and sometimes into the physical spaces that we live in. This project explores this new narrative trend, looking at how narrative is spun across the network and into our lives.”