Database as a Genre of New Media by Lev Manovich

Lev Manovich thinks that it is important to discuss databases because they are so abundant in our lives. As explained in the article, "the world appears to us as an endless and unstructured collection of images, texts, and other data records, it is only appropriate that we will be moved to model it as a database". The world wide web is simply a collection of databases, like flickr and any search engine (i.e, google, yahoo). These search engines navigate you to other databases that in turn have even more links, that link to other databases.
The problem with a narrative a narrative is that a database is not a story or a linear progression, it is a collection of material (Manovich).
I am going to go out on a limb and say that every website that contained art that we have looked at in class has been apart of a database. I think that a website, as long as it has any sort of link or collection of information could be considered a database.
If a website has only a linear way of navagation, without choice by the audience then it could be considered a narrative and a database. The only problem with that is the back button on the top of web browsers gives that option to venture backwards. This wouldn't happen if you were reading a book.... but I guess you could filp the back the pages and re-read parts... soooooo basically that's hard to say.
I think certain computer games can be narratives, like ones that you need to beat each level to conquer a a final villain or level. The article uses Tetris, which is a video game, as an example of a algorithm rather than a narrative.