Week 12 Journal

What is the relationship between print and digital media? Will one medium replace the other medium? And what does this mean for everyday writing?

Print and digital media are the only two was that we can put out thoughts down into a text. They are both used in every day live and by basically everybody. Being that todays technology is so apparent in todays society i find that paper media is slowly coming to an end. Even looking at the difference between schooling 5 years ago and today there is a huge change. We are using less and less of paper materials and sticking more to computers and tablets. The down side to this, as said in the reading, is that when using digital media it is harder to organize  your thoughts. Also, in the writing process you start with a draft, and continue to make drafts until you come up with a final copy. When you use digital media, you are loosing all of those drafts that are important in writing. The content in drafts are very important because they are all of our thoughts scattered, but while some might not be relevant now, they may become relevant in the future. When you use digital media you simply just delete all of those thoughts into nothing, but when they're in print they are permanent. For everyday writing the control of digital media could be detrimental. Everyday writing should be permanent and not be able to just be backspaced away into existence.