When we use the term “digital writing,” we refer to a changed writing
environment—that is, to writing produced on the computer and distributed via the
Internet and World Wide Web. We are not talking about the computer as a
stand-alone machine for writing; although that particular technological
development has indeed changed the writing process, the computer itself as a
stand-alone machine is not revolutionary in the sense we mean. Rather, the
dramatic change is the networked computer connected to the Internet and the
World Wide Web. Connectivity allows writers to access and participate more
seamlessly and instantaneously within web spaces and to distribute writing to
large and widely dispersed audiences.