Week 15 Journal

What role does technology play in everyday writing and composing?

Whether it is printed media or digital media, technology is present in all types of writing and composing. If it weren't for technology, writing wouldn't exist. The technology does not need to be digital, it can merely be a pen and a piece of paper. Technology aids the process of writing; it allows humans to communicate amongst each other and it also allows the distribution of ideas to happen easily. When it comes to everyday writing this is especially true. The purpose behind everyday writing is to communicate between two or more people or groups of people, and the writing itself has a purpose. With technology, especially digital technology, people can express their ideas and compose easily and spread their ideas to the people that they want to communicate whether that is one person or the whole world (i.e. spam).

Technology not only aides everyday writing and composing, but it also creates new genres within everyday writing as well. Letters became phone calls which then became e-mails and then Facebook then Twitter and Snapchat which are all new forms of everyday "writing". Friends in reality became followers digitally who then became internet celebrities who could influence far more people than you as one person could because they became models for our culture. What was a person who couldn't afford new clothes then became someone who was thrifty after the crash of the Stock Market who then became a "hipster" in modern ages. Technology allows everyday "texts" to circulate and spread ideas and connect people who choose to be a part of those ideas. Technology doesn't just have a role in everyday writing and composing, it has become everyday writing itself as well as being a person's aide in composing that writing.