VI. Findings

Based on my data collected from digital autoethnographic recordings, interviews, and process narratives, I suggest that “tools” exert five major types of influences on webtext invention: rethink, engage, adapt, afford, and limit (Table 4). Additionally, they exert these influences on webtext design in six main capacities: as tools for image-editing, presentation, web-editing, text-editing, audio-editing, and video-editing (Table 5), with differing degrees of effect on the invention process based on the differing nuances of their effects.

Figures 28-29 identify the icon-codes, and Tables 13-14 define these codes. Figures 30, 32, and 34 display the triads in table form to compare patterns in relationship across tools, pieces, and influences across autoethnographic, published, and interview narratives. Figures 31, 33, and 35 count the number of influences appearing in each narrative set.

Figure 28: Types of Tool-Based Influences

Table 13: Definitions of Tool-Based Influences

Figure 29: Types of Tools

Table 14: Examples of Tools

Figure 30: Tools, Pieces, and Influences in Autoethnographic Narratives

Figure 31: Autoethnographic Narrative Tools Totals

Figure 32: Tools, Pieces, and Influences in Published Narratives

Figure 33: Published Narrative Tools Totals

Figure 34: Tools, Pieces, and Influences in Interview Narratives

Figure 35: Interview Narrative Tools Totals