| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 新聞研究所 === 94 === Writing is considered the embodiment of human thought, and writing interface is merely a tool. Since the birth of computer and Internet, online writing has attracted academic attention because computers offer entirely different functions and ways of writing from pen and paper. Can tools, besides assisting, to some extent, decide the form and content of writing and, perhaps, direct our thoughts？
Between humanist’s transparent tool point of view and technology determinism, we have Haas conducting research on how computer affects writing, and Michael Heim discusses the meaning of computer-generated text from ontology. I would like to take what they have accomplished and put it into the field of internet. Because Internet has made the computer-generated text break through the boundary of time and space, and further challenged the concepts that writing is a single person behavior. So, is it possible to develop an internet writing theory which take tool into consideration？
Researcher has observed and interviewed eight internet writers. I found within the internet interface the traces of man and tool writing together. Writers, from inspiration to the process of thinking and writing, even the interaction with readers after writing, have closely connected to internet writing interface. Internet writing interface is not just a tool, but an environment for thinking and a partner we write with.
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