Narrative/Database Question for the day
Manivoch pointed out in the article that “Database becomes the centre of the creative process in the computer age”. He argues that narratives in media are inherently derived from database. To me, he sees construction of narrative as a process in which artists and authors synthesize “data”: ideas, content etc. However, this process of creation of narratives have been around before the age of computer. Does Manovich uses the term “database” to draw attention to how narratives in digitized media content are constructed? Or does he simply uses a word created in the age of computer to understand a process that always existed?