Wow, that was a long one. This article (chapter?) is a good overview of some of the ways artists have adapted the storytelling process to the internet. While these new mediums—blogs and Twitter, for example—storytelling has been able to be community-driven in a way that was never really possible before the internet. Even stories that aren’t outright collaborative generate real-time discussion in comment sections and on forums. In addition, the ability of web-published stories to instantaneously reach their audience allows for frequent updates. All these things represent ways in which the internet has changed storytelling.

However, that doesn’t mean these are all entirely new means of storytelling. More than anything, the internet has expanded upon traditional storytelling by making it more accessible. Real-time republication, for instance, could’ve been achieved in a pre-internet context via newspapers. Discussion and audience input could happen after an author reads a part of their serial story to fans. To collaborate, a bunch of artists could get together in a room. The examples given by the article seem to me to be the digital extensions of traditional means of storytelling.

Due to the internet’s widespread nature, these types of storytelling are much easier and accessible than they were before the internet. They aren’t entirely new, but they might as well be, since the difficult associated with them would’ve discouraged such storytelling before.