Considering both Lessig and Jenkins, what does it mean to be a writer in the 21st century? Does the emergence of digital technologies and Web 2.0 allow for new ways of composing?
To be a writer in the 21st century has a completely different meaning then it did before the emergence of technology. Most people didn't have the access to material to write with that they do today. Before it was all done by hand. You'd write with the materials you had, and to get your writing out there was a process with in itself. Today you are not considered to be part "normal" society if you don't have a smartphone, computer, tablet etc... Our easy access today makes it so that any piece of our writing can be dispersed to a large number of people just by clicking "post". It gives us a number of options and easy accessibility that we didn't have even 50 years ago. Writing today, on technology, is shorter and, a lot of the time, has less meaning than it did if we were to write in text. Due to social networking our writing has become very short handed and hurried, but only in that situation. Other digital forms like blogs, emails, and Word have make so writing large amounts of text easy and fast, but still holding all the meaning it would have 50 years ago.
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