{{Short description|2014 netprov}} {{Infobox book | author = Mark Marino and Rob Wittig | pub_date = 2014 | genre = Web fiction, Netprov, Electronic literature | URL = | image = | language = English | caption = | name = #1WkNoTech | country = US | award = | publisher = | exclude_cover = yes }}
'''''#1WkNoTech''''' was a netprov run in 2014 and 2015, led by Mark Marino and Rob Wittig.
== Content == Participants "pretended to use no technology for a week and documented the 'experiment' obsessively in social media".<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wittig |first1=Rob |last2=Marino |first2=Mark C. |date=2017 |title=Occupy the Emotional Stock Exchange, Resisting the Quantifying of Affection in Social Media |journal=Humanities |language=en |volume=6 |issue=2 |page=33 |doi=10.3390/h6020033 |issn=2076-0787 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Makaila |date=2014-03-14 |title=A week without technology |url=http://www.theumdstatesman.com/blog/2014/12/03/week-without-technology |access-date=2023-04-29 |website=The Statesman |language=en-US}}</ref> Participants used Twitter, a fictional organisational website, a fictional Facebook page and private google docs to organise the storytelling.
<nowiki>#</nowiki>1WkNoTech has been described as a parody of "a situation that often occurs on social media where a Facebook or Twitter user loudly declares that they have had enough of the information overload and are going offline for a while to recuperate".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rettberg |first=Scott |title=Electronic literature |date=2019 |isbn=978-1-5095-1681-0 |location=Cambridge, UK | publisher = Polity Press | oclc=1038024013}}</ref> Instead of going offline, the participants of #1WkNoTech spend time on the very sites they have disavowed.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Skains |first=R. Lyle |title=Neverending stories: the popular emergence of digital fiction |date=2023 |isbn=978-1-5013-6491-4 |location=New York | publisher = Bloomsbury Academic | page=153 |oclc=1341268134}}</ref> The netprov was well-suited for "partial reading" since its aesthetic experience depended on the mass of tweets rather than a particular storyline.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The community and the algorithm : a digital interactive poetics |date=2021 |editor-first=Andrew |editor-last=Klobucar |isbn=978-1-64889-311-7 |location=Wilmington, Delaware |publisher = Vernon Press | page=94 |oclc=1261364273}}</ref>
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== External links == * Entry in ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base: {{Cite web |title=#1wkNoTech{{!}} ELMCIP |url=https://elmcip.net/creative-work/1wknotech |access-date=2023-04-29 |website=elmcip.net}}
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Category:2010s electronic literature works Category:2014 in Internet culture Category:Netprov Category:American electronic literature works