Week 12 Journal

The relationship between print and digital media is rather similar. For example, you can do some of the same things on the computer that you can do writing on a piece of paper, and vice versa. I’d say that what separates our decision-making regarding whether to use on over the other often depends on the situation. At the end of the day, it essentially boils down to preference. If either medium were to take over the other, it would obviously be digital media, due to the significant advances in technology over the years we have been fortunate enough to go through. However, preference is probably going to keep that from happening for a long period of time.  I could write this journal entry on a piece of paper, but choose to do it on this computer because doing so is more time efficient for me. That is my preference. The air traffic controller could probably write his notes on Microsoft Word on a computer, but he chooses to still scribble his notes on little pieces of paper. One might call it arrogance, but an old phrase applies nicely to this situation: “If it ain’t broke, why fix it?” That air traffic controller got to his position doing things the way he had always been accustomed to. How can you blame him for sticking to what he’s most comfortable with, or what he prefers? In regards to everyday writing, digital media isn’t a better example of everyday writing than print, simply because print usually requires the use of readily available resources and is not mandated in any real sense. Computers stray more from the everyday writing because so many things are already ‘set”. Having said that, I think that typing up your own personal documents on Microsoft Word or writing e-mails to someone can be considered an example of everyday writing. Technology has made immense strides as of late, but print is just often times a more authentic and comfortable form for people to use.