'It's a curious exercise, a nearly impossible swim, to attempt to describe digital writing to a traditional print writer/reader. Even the words used - 'traditional', 'print', 'digital', or the seemingly ubiquitous and central notions of 'writer' and 'reader' - only result in a murky mess of genres and caged descriptors. And even those who bark up, loudly proclaiming and spreading digital-mediated literature, cannot agree on a common definition. They banter about like sociologists searching for farmable theories, using such titles as 'electronic literature', 'digital poetry', 'trans media writing', coded-text, hypertext and on and on.' (Introduction)
