Week 12 Journal

The relationship between print and digital media is that they focus on telling others about a particular thing. Some print media comes from printing digital media, but when it comes to sending something tangible as opposed to sending something digital, digital will always be sent faster because it does not rely on physical transportation, which can be slowed down further if there is traffic on its way to the destination. One medium will replace the other medium for the most part, meaning digital media will replace most of print media. We are in the digital age, and the fact that digital media has become an alternative for some print media can be seen in Nooks and Kindles, which are an alternative to books. However, it will not completely replace every print medium. As they said in the article, “paper enables a certain kind of thinking.” The people who took the flight strips said that they could scribble notes on the paper without damaging the information on the strip, meaning it allows them to work without having to worry about false information. For everyday writing, this means that it may become more digital with time and expansion in the digital world, but print media will likely remain more personal and desirable as tangible things, therefore print media will not go away. While it is faster to use and send something digital, print gives us the ability to learn and means more to us, meaning things like poems and letters, because they are things that can be displayed or kept in a secret box of meaningful items. Digital media allows the digital age to progress, but print media allows us to remain humbly sentimental.