Journal 10

Technology is the base for everyday writing and composing. It’s the most prominent tool used today for writing. We rarely get letters from people today, except the occasional birthday card from Grandma or Grandpa. Letters have turned to e-mails, birthday cards have transformed into e-cards, and thoughts are now communicated through Facebook statuses and tweets. It is so important in today’s age to have access to a computer, smartphone, or any form of technology. 

I agree with Andrew when he talks about Shirky’s point of how technology creates an “Ultimate Game”. Whether anyone will admit it, every time something is posted, whether it be a picture on Instagram or a tweet on Twitter, they are looking for the approval of anyone who see it. Most people do not simply post for intrinsic reasons, but rather to impress and seek approval from the people in their social group.

“A tool's capabilities don't completely determine its ultimate functions.” I really like this quote by Shirky, a computer is a great example too. We can have a computer, but unless we know how to use it, we don’t access it’s full potential. Technology plays a crucial role in everyday writing and composing because we all now use it on a regular basis to achieve simple everyday tasks.

Technology and everyday writing

Technology is very important for everyday writing. Especially since social media has become so prominent in everyones life.  Social Media is incorporated into cell phones now that makes it so much easier to post statuses and other things to social media sites from just about anywhere. These posts to social media are great examples of everyday writing. Not only does technology make everyday writing easier and more accessible, it also makes it much easier to share with different communities of people (i.e your friends or followers).  Technology like computers and other devices connected to the Internet allow the writer to connect to different communities through websites and other such means.  Writers can post their material and easily gain exposure.

            Technology also makes the composition of writing much easier.   Word processing applications like Microsoft Word and Pages make writing as quick as someone can type.  The use of spell check and grammar checks allow people to check their writing and make their writing more conventional.  Also with the aid of the Internet, research can be done much more efficiently than going to a library and searching through shelves on shelves of books.  The Internet has the information you need all on one screen.  The only challenge is deciding if the source is credible or not. The Internet also supports collaboration. A writer can reach out to peers and give and receive ideas. 

Journal 10

Technology serves as the basis for advancement in writing and plays a vital role in the genre of everyday writing.  With the growth of modern technologies, everyday writing is becoming a more broad and well developed form of expression.  Technology and human advancements of communication truly acted at the catalyst for writing with a pen in general.  As Tayina stated, writing became possible with the carving of images on walls and eventually advanced to the use of paper and pen.  Today, digital technologies such as the internet, word processors, type writers, and the intent have allowed for writing to expand and grow even more.  This is an important aspect of everyday writing, for as we discussed in class a characteristic of everyday writing is that it is non-institutional and can be capable of effecting large communities expanded in different areas of the world.  The advancement of technology allows ordinary, 'everyday' people to create written or communicative texts and disperse their ideas all over the world throughout the internet and social media. 

Not only has technology affected spreading everyday writing to different communities although it has also enabled enhancement in more personal texts.  For example, the prating of picture to put in scrapbooks is made possible by digital technologies.  Tattoos are also a form of everyday writing which has developed and have become increasingly safer over the years.  Getting a tattoo today is much safer, cleaner, and accurately done then it used to be.  Technology has truly allowed for the advancement of communication, and with it the advancement of everyday texts.

Journal 10

In everyday writing and composing, technology enables the creator to do certain things, but it is not the reason why they create them. For example, the senior citizens discussed in the article do not use technology just to use it, they use it because it enables them to more easily communicate with their friends and family. It is true that without certain technologies, certain compositions would not exist, however without the creators desire to create the work in the first place, the technology doesn’t matter at all. If you think about it, centuries ago, people made cave drawings and eventually created pen and paper because they had something they wanted to communicate. But if they did not wish to communicate at all, these technologies would not exist.

Technology is also the reason why writing and composing became more accessible and convenient. In the past, people would only be able to receive news from the newspaper, radio, and television at certain times of the day. People had to make time in their day to watch certain TV shows and listen to certain radio stations. Now, people can have access to news and so much more whenever they wish if they have access to the internet. As we have already discussed in other classes, technology allows people all over the world to collaborate through online communication. People with common interests can find each other online through blogs and social media. They can collaborate their ideas to form ideas which are much better than the originals.

Journal 10

   Technology has helped to advance the composing of everyday writing in many ways.  I agree with Taylor and believe that the majority of today’s everyday writing occurs online.  Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social media mediums have helped to revolutionize the way that we all compose.  These online mediums allow for direct feedback and a more collaborative way of writing.  This means that there is now a much larger and broader audience that has potential to see what you are composing.  This relationship between the reader and writer is completely new to the previous methods used for everyday writing.  Shirky makes a point to point out and identify the “Ultimate Game.”  In this Shirky says that subjects now feel a greater need for commutative approval.  I believe that this tends to be true in many cases.  Whenever someone makes a Facebook status, or posts a picture on Instagram, they are all looking for approval from others in the form of “likes,” or “comments.

            I believe that this need for approval from others correlates directly with the fact that we all strive for acceptance.  If not everyone then just from the people that belong to our social groups.  This article also points out that this new form of everyday writing which seems to rely heavily on technology and the use of the internet, does not allow for the same kind of personal attachment that a print text could, but that we still use it because it is more readily available.  I believe that this is definitely true and that it is almost human nature to find the fastest and easiest way to solve a problem correctly.

Blog Post 10

Technology has been around for forever. Technology doesn't have to be digital or computerized. Technology can be as simple as a pencil or as complex as a computer. My definition of technology is the use of a tool to perform a specific function. So technology is the tool used to create everyday writing. Without technology we wouldn't have a written form of communication, only spoken words. We would have no books, papers, or ways of preserving information. The improvements in technology have increased the role technology plays in everyday writing. Now, we can write whenever and wherever we want as long as we have internet connection or service. I like the example they used about having to used to memorize phone numbers. We used to have to memorize phone numbers to be able to get in contact with someone. Now, with improved technology, all the contacts we want can be stored in our phones or devices for easy access to their numbers. Without the advances in technology a lot of what has been discovered, made, and invented would not have been. As we discussed last week, once somethings out there, one can "remix" it into whatever they like. Shirky explains that technology enables that, yet it doesn't cause them.

Journal #10

I consider technology the product of innovation that allows for tasks to be completed or problems to be solved in a faster or more efficient way than was previously possible. I'm also extremely proud that I could string those words together in a seemingly coherent sentence. I will use two journal entries from classmates that I found particularly interesting to discuss digital technology and everyday writing. I believe that Christina brings up a great point by stating the digital technology has allowed everyday writing to thrive and now you can argue that everyday writing is dependent upon technology in of itself.

I really like one topic brought up by the article in particular, and that is the phenomena of social production. The author makes the case that social production enhances the level of writing in democratic countries by using the knowledge to combine. Combining ideas to create writing is a wonderful and fascinating process, that is exponentially enhanced by the ability to communicate with people instantaneously, through means of social media. Like Tayina mentions in her entry, "Each platform has a definite community, and everyone has the chance to contribute." This is no more evident than social media sites like Facebook or Twitter, where it is easy to share thoughts, comments, and ideas about topics almost immediately. Even this blog is an example of others (Tayina and Christina) contributing to the ideas I am currently writing about. Technology has enhanced everyday writing by adding the instant collaboration element, and would not be able to exist without it.

Journal #10

In todays time the role that technology plays in everyday writing and composing is vastly important. The enhancement of technology has allowed for people produce or compose a piece of everyday writing almost anywhere. The biggest contributor to everyday writing in the 21st century I would have to say are social medias. Social media's haven given millions of people the capability to be a active participant in everyday writing. Social media's such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have give the 21st centuries generation a new way to be writers. Being a writer in modern time doesn't require everything it once thought to be needed. I believe that a writer in todays time can be anyone who can produce a form of digital text, even if it is just a simple status on Facebook or a tweet on Twitter.

Technology is the only way possible our journals for this class are capable to be composed. We are able to access the internet and compose a journal on a blogging website that is strictly for the use of our class. We can read each others thoughts on discussions and produce our own points of views. I like how Lonnie's post said, "Technology and writing will both evolve to a point where writing is considered completely "in sync" with everyone everyday lives."Its crazy to think how far we've come in both technology and writing that this is inevitable. Technology has become one of if not the biggest contributor of everyday writing and will continue to in the future. 

We talked about technology and its relation to writing in class a few weeks ago. I said that I believe writing is contingent upon technology, as without technologies such as carvings or paper and pen, there would be no way to write. I also believe writing in itself is a technology. This technology allows for interactions and the exchanging of ideas. more modern/digital technologies allow us to do this on a much more rapid and grander scale.
In "Opportunity", Shirky elaborates on this, calling the internet an "opportunity machine." Here, opinions that would have never before gotten the light of day, are shared, and sometimes made famous. Communities are formed. People share ideas over facebook, instagram, twitter, tumblr, reddit, and plenty of other social platforms. Each platform has a definite community, and everyone has the chance to contribute. I believe that now our socialization is becoming more and more reliant of digital technologies. It is harder to remain out of social media sites like Facebook, because so much of peoples interactions are happening there,  and if one were to only do their interacting in the physical world they would be left out. This is a bit like what Jami and Cristina wrote: technology shapes everyday writing and now everyday writing cannot thrive without these technologies.

Journal #10

Technology plays a very large role in everyday writing now in the 21^st century than it ever did before. Like Jami had mentioned, people created everyday writing in the form of scrapbooks. Besides actually having written words in scrapbooks, pictures are used from a camera, which is a form of technology.  People have also used typewriters and computers as a form of technology that creates everyday writing, but there are more technologies nowadays that makes everyday writing more prevalent. Technology has given people the ability to write basically anywhere and everywhere they choose to. With the emergence and use of technology, people can be constantly writing all of the time without even knowing that they are doing so. Cellphones for example have changed everyday writing. This form of ever-changing technology has led to the use of apps such as Snapchat or Instagram as a way of communicating with one another. The development and advancement of the internet with the emergence of things such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs has widened the range of forms that everyday writing can take place in. As we have learned throughout the semester, technology can lead to collaboration and remixing of ones ideas in order to create your own.  Some people believe that this use of technology in everyday writing has only circulated and reused the same ideas, but in Shirky’s article titled Cognitive Surplus, he mentions that “technology enables those ideas, but does not necessarily cause them.” From this statement, I agree with Shirky because although people now have a better ability of creating new forms of writing from someone else’s old, that is not necessarily happening.Technology has made everyday writing the most prevalent than it has ever been, and I do not think that the massive success of everyday writing would have been possible without it. 

Journal #10

Everyday writing, similar to our current modern technologies has evolved over time. As technology has grown and advanced to the point where we basically carry around personal notebooks on our phones through apps, or through tablets everyday writing has evolved as well. I feel technology has given everyday writing as more "normal" feel. What I mean when I say this is, we use writing so much in technology now its so natural and we never stop to think about what we are really doing. Through technology writing can be presented in many new ways, social media,blogs, and personal websites that can define our new sense of everyday. As one of my classmates said there is now this "feedback loop" where our writing can be seen and commented on by any who we wish to share it with.

I believe as long as technology continues to evolve, with things such as smartwatches, Google Glass, Smart TV's and the like, writing will become even more commonplace than it currently is. Technology and writing will both evolve to a point where writing is considered completely "in sync" with everyone everyday lives. This "sync" will provide a whole new wave of everyday genre, and it maybe will evolve as well. Everyday writing, much like technology, applies to the individual so as long as our technological needs and uses increase I see writing doing the same in direct relation due to the ease of access.

Journal # 10

Technology plays a vital role in writing. With out it, a lot of the texts or information we view would not be as readily available. The internet is a huge network with lots of writing used for a multitude of different things. Twitter, for example, is used to "tweet" or write short, messages about anything. While a blog, an online journal, can be used to write longer more informative texts. The internet in relation to everyday writing is very helpful. With out it, there wouldn't be as many readers. One specific thing technology allows us to do is collaborate. With out collaboration many of the texts we know and love would not be possible. The internet is truly amazing. I still don't quite understand how it works, and I don't think I ever will. However, having it available at our fingertips (use of mobile devices) makes sharing everyday writing even easier! I think the quote Taylor pulled, which was stated by Shirky, is worth sharing. That is, "People behave as if their relationship matters, even if they are told it doesn't, even id they are assured it doesn't , even id they have only one interaction with a known person." With this, he starts to talk about how the population strives for "community approval" which I agree with. A lot of us strive for acceptance, although we don't fully know the reason why. It's confusing, but true.
Over this course, we have now talked about several examples of everyday writing and why they are everyday. This article was very interesting and gave us yet another persepctive of everyday writing. I think technological writing (tweets, email, instagram, blogs, facebook, etc. etc.) might not be the most valuable, in that they are shown across the border, so they don't have as much of that personal attachment, yet they are the most readily available.

Journal #10

In everyday writing, technology allows for social opportunities while also providing communication among individuals. Through technology, we are given various opportunities to become a member of a group. Based on that group, we can offer feedback to other members. This feedback loop, in the case of everyday writing, improves the competence and autonomy of writers who actively participate in the group. If the group is noticeably strong in working and learning together, it can attract more members that can contribute even more to the group. Thus, technology is a key supporting factor for our social participation with others. It affords us the opportunities to work with others (maybe on everyday writing) and to better our skills from our interactions. Shirky makes the argument in “Opportunity” that “the internet is an opportunity machine, a way for small groups to create new opportunities” efficiently and with an audience that extends “to the largest set of potential participants in history.” The internet affords anyone the opportunity to create a piece of everyday writing, become a member of a group with similar interests in everyday writing, find others who can offer advice and suggestions for that piece of everyday writing, and finally circulate that piece to a wide expanse of internet users.

After reading Jami’s journal, I realized that I had forgotten that everyday writing has grown to include and incorporate elements of technology due to technology's current prominence in today’s society. Composers of everyday writing unconsciously use technology to create their pieces of everyday writing, like using pictures taken by cameras in scrapbooks as Jami pointed out. As of today, technology has become such an important aspect of everyday writing that I believe everyday writing could not thrive without it.

Journal #10

 Technology plays a huge role in everyday writing and composing especially as when it comes to modern day. Everyday writing use to be composed just from paper and pens in other decades but now when people look at different examples of everyday writing almost every example includes some use of technology. For example, scrapbooks are composed of writing and pictures and pictures come from cameras, which are a form of technology. Another example are blogs and forms of social media like Facebook, instagram and twitter, which are all technology. With technology so involved in everyday writing it only adds to the power that everyday has in the society. Technology allows collaboration and sharing of everyday writing more than it ever did before. When one person post a form of everyday writing on social media their friends are able to share that post which spreads it into a larger community than it was in before. In technology like blogs and YouTube channels the viewers are able to comment on them adding their thoughts and ideas on the situation. Because technology allows this collaboration is becoming easier between two people and more efficient which Skirky brings out in “Opportunity” like Simone talked about in her blog about the idea of the hothouse environment. I believe that if technology did not advance and grow as much as it has in the past years than everyday writing would not be as prevalent in the world as it is today. The most everyday writing that people would see would be written letter or books composed of letters. Technology has been able to shape the success of everyday writing. 

Journal #10

Technology is a tool that enables writing. More advanced technology like computers and their access to the internet can help spread ideas and thoughts, creating a community that can collaborate with and improve upon the original idea or thought. Without sharing the writing one creates, that text is subject only to a small group's opinions. Out in the open however, anyone can see and respond to a text, adding upon it or critiquing it. In "Opportunity" Shirky states that "the hothouse environment of a collaborative circle can make the ideas and achievements of the participants develop faster than if the participants were all pursuing the identical goals without sharing." This is seen when people publish their findings in experiments and they are tested by others. The collaboration involved spreads the idea and allows for others to think about the theories proposed, potentially leading to new experiments derived from the original.

Without technology, there would be no way of writing. Technology such as a paper and pen or a computer keyboard are what allow us to write. Without them the only way we can spread ideas is through spoken word. Technology allows for a larger potential audience and allows for texts to be preserved in their original form rather than being paraphrased by whatever people remember of it. Technology is beneficial because people can use it to constantly improve and bounce ideas off each other. It creates a community that can come together and build upon itself.

Journal #10

     Technology is the medium in which most everyday writing is composed through. People use technology such as the internet to write about things going on in their lives; and the audience is those who are in their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. community. Everyday writing through technology also allows for a greater audience when used in blogging communities because these allow people from all over the world to see, read, and respond to. This creates a reader/writer relationship that may have been otherwise nonexistent before the creation of the internet. Technology in itself has allowed people to collaborate with others on the internet with or without their knowledge; such as the fan fictions that we read about in Jenkins paper, "Why Heather Can Write." Technology has made everyday writing the most institution dependent form of writing, in the way that even schools do not allow students to use technology in classes because they will be "everyday writing"; as opposed to learning and paying attention to the course material.
     As stated by Shirky, "people behave as if their relationship matters, even if they are told it doesn't, even if they are assured it doesn't, even if they have only one interaction with an known person." He talks about the Ultimatum Game (experiment) and how subjects show a greater need for community approval; although they may not say so. This is a large effect on how a person composes their writing, because they must keep in mind that the community/audience and whether they would approve, disapprove, like it or hate it. Technology also makes the process of composition much easier than it was before technology. There are many different ways in which you can use technology to write everyday; the internet, text messages, snapchat, apps on phone and computers, etc. 

Journal 8

After reading both articles, I think a writer in the 21st century have it a lot easier and have a lot more resources than ever before. Writers today use all sorts of technologies, anywhere from a phone, to a tablet, to a computer. All these resources are readily available to the writer, something that was never possible before. With that, writers have easy accessibility to others writing, making it easy for collaboration, something the author suggests should not be frowned upon. Writing has truly become an everyday thing, you can easily pull up whatever you want in a matter of seconds.
Web 2.0 is one of the many new resources used by 21st century writers. Unlike some critics, I think it's an amazing tool that should be taken advantage of . I believe it allows users to look up valuable information with extreme ease. The ability to look up quotes or comparisons gives the writer the opportunity to improve their writing so much more.

Journal 9

Considering both Lessig and Jenkins’ articles, I believe writers in the 21st century have more tools available to them to make their writing process easier and more unique. Some of these tools include all of the new technologies such as the internet, computers, phones, etc. Because a lot of these things were not available to writers in the 18th century, their writing process was definitely different because it was much more difficult to write. Without a lot of today’s technology, important modern ideas and works would not have been created, for the writers would not have felt they had the ability to reach their full potential. In both articles, the authors discuss how collaboration is helpful and more available for writers in this century. Lessig discusses how it is so easy to find other peoples writings nowadays that it should not be frowned upon to use these writings to strengthen one’s own idea. Jenkins inclusion of the The Daily Prophet in the article is a perfect example of how people have been given the ability to become writers through online collaboration.

The emergence of digital technologies and Web 2.0 allow for writers to explore and perfect new ideas that they never would have been able to before. For example, I just wrote a paper for a mythology class last week, comparing a modern movie to an ancient myth. Through the internet, I was able to watch the movie, obtain quotes from the movie, look up the myth, use respected professors speculations about certain things in the myth, and much more. The web opens up so many doors for writers on today’s world, and it really gives everyone a lot of opportunities to become great writers. I feel like I am finding out about new forms of writing all the time, and it’s opening me up to new ways of creating things.

Journal 9

With the dawn of the 21st century we see a new age of technology and with it a new age of writing. Now almost everybody has access to write whether it be through your phone, computer, or tablet. This has increased our literate rate as now reading has become such a present factor in our everyday lives. Now, if we would like to know something we can just search it on our iPhone and an answer will be displayed to us almost immediately. Before we would have to possess actual pieces of writing such as magazines or newspapers, things that we would have to: print, retrieve, and most of the time buy. Now with technology, writing can now be so effectively circulated through the population that it has truly become an everyday thing. This has affected writing is several ways in some negative but mostly positive ways.
Now that the circulation and retrieving of everyday writing has become so easy, writing itself has evolved. Now when we write, we often build off of other peoples work. The chances that we were the first to write about a particular subject on the web is very slim given that almost everybody has the power to do it now. It sounds rather sad and unmeaning-full, but it does make for better writing. It allows for a sort of collaboration. Now writing has become not the invention of new ideas but the improvement of existing ones. Also, with writing becoming viral, the audience for your writing has vastly increased.

Journal #9

I found some interesting thoughts in this article, as well as from some fellow classmates that I would like to elaborate on. I agree with the notion that Tayina suggests, saying that modern writing is similar to writing of past centuries, the meaning is in the context of the time period. I feel that this is a very astute observation that explains why we can analyze texts from previous generations. One topic in particular that the article mentions, and that I feel is highly controversial, concerns the opinions surrounding intellectual property and the use of items in the non-commercial sphere. The author goes on to make the argument that creativity can also stem from ideas that feature other, accomplished ones, and thus in the form of a 'remix' has a right to exist alongside other original ideas in the commercial world. Simply put, the author argues that remixing an established movie clip, symbol, etc., its own right to be considered an original work

I do not agree. I believe that anything used for the purpose of furthering one's own ambition that was stolen (or in the author's words 'remixed) from an original work, must include recognition of the previous work in whatever way the property holder sees fit. G-Eazy, one of my favorite rappers, samples a variety of old songs and includes sick beats and his own lyrical musings to produce something that I contend has musical value. However, although I would argue a majority of people are listening to the track because of his name, the fact that he features another, original work and passes it off as a remixed version demands credit to be given to the other party. Whether giving a specified sum to the artist or their estate, or mentioning them in the credits, anything given the cute, but misleading, 'remixed' title deserves to give credit to the other party.

Journal #9

Writing in the 21st century, at its core, is still the same and writing in the 18th century.  "Remix" explains this well. Everything we create is just building off of old ideas. Nothing is purely original. And writing is still about spreading ideas. 
However some characteristics have changed with the advent of digital technology. On rate at which we can spread ideas as increased. therefore, we can build off each others ideas faster. An example of this would be the fan fiction we discussed last class. The students were able to collaborate, learn, and share with each other from all over the country. 
Also, as Taylor mention referencing Jenkins writing on spam, technology has allowed writing to be more personalized, even with advertisements. Spam is "'personalized' from computer to computer, using your browsing history to figure out exactly which advertising should be showing on your Facebook page." Also, before writing was for the elite, but now anyone can gain a following with Web 2.0. 

Journal #9 Digital Technologies

With the many technical advances we live with today, things have become so much easier to accomplish. From watching TV shows through our phones, and booking trips, we can also even use different devices as our own personal life reminders. The same revolutions have brought about a new way of writing. Many of us have access to many advances such as computers, the aforementioned phones, tablets, and even E-readers that can also double as being devices used to create digital writing and share with the masses. There are now even TV's with "SmartTouch" that allow you to watch your shows and email by touching the screen.

So exactly what does this mean for writing? This means that writing has entered an evolved state where it has become a dominant part in many of our lives. Even through texting, we may not use 100% correct grammar, but  we are still doing another form of writing as a means of communication. Technology has evolved so much that writing is accessible from almost anywhere now which means anyone can write. Technology has evolved so much past expectations that many no longer consider the many ways writing happen each day, considering it just a part of life when it really has not always been like this. Writing, along with many things has evolved with our society and stands to benefit from the many technological advances we make.

Journal # 9

I think that being a writer in the 21^st century simply means that you are able to write what you want, and can accomplish getting what you want out of your writing. With that being said, I do not necessarily think that in order to be considered a writer, your writing has to come from you and you alone anymore.  I agree with Lessig when he mentions that citing another’s work helps to strengthen an argument or a point that you otherwise could not make on your own. Sometimes in writing, it is hard to figure out what to say and make your ideas flow in a way that you would want. From this blog for example, we take quotes from articles that we have read or ideas from our fellow classmates in order to strengthen our arguments and thoughts in our blog posts.

I definitely think that the emergence of digital technologies and Web 2.0 has allowed for new ways of composing writing. I agree when Simone mentioned in her journal entry that “everyone within a society has the means to write” and only needs to properly cite in order to do so.  Since many things that we do  in the 21^st century involves the internet and digital technology, it is very easy to find someone’s writing online and essentially “remix” their ideas in order to create new ones of our own. Digital technologies have made composing a written text much faster and able to reach a larger number of people much easier than before. 

Journal #9

Writing at its core has not changed significantly from the the 18th century until now; the purpose of writing is still steady in the sense that it's goal is to convey a message, idea, or emotion.  I would agree that over the past hundred years though writing has become a skill most people are taught and the actual style of writing has changed with time.  As Cristina pointed out, it is hard for us to fathom that in the 18th century writing was only a trait the elite and wealthy were taught; for now most American's are able to compose some form of the written word.  In addition, a major advancement 21st century writers have in comparison to 18th century writers is the access to uncountable amounts of information.  Search engines on the internet make it much easier for modern writers to form opinions and arguments by 'remixing' information they found on the web.

In the 18th century copywriting and citing sources was not as big of a concern, although today with eons of information and countless ideas floating around the internet it is almost vital to use them in a composition and just as vital to give the author credit. The ideology that 'nothing is new under the sun', holds much truth in this circumstance, for most concepts have been thought of before and most have been published in some form.  I think that the form of writing Ben had in the essay 'Remix', is a beautiful representation of how the style or writing will evolve.  In the 21st century, I think our goal as a writer should not be necessarily creating a new genius concept, although it should be building off of other people's concepts and brining in different ideas from great thinkers.  We should 'remix' ideas already 'under the sun' and use them as building blocks to create something perhaps 'newish' idea.

Journal #9

     Being a writer in the 21st century has many different meanings than it may have had several years ago before the internet, computers, even television. The internet has allowed anyone to become an "everyday writer." Being a writer in the 21st century is mostly based ON the internet, through blogs mostly, and this allows the writers work to be seen by a great amount of people all over the world. Everyday writing is the coherent writing of ideas to serve a purpose and are in response to an exigence. This is the backbone of all writing in the 21st century; Instagram posts, comments on someones Facebook wall, Twitter subtweets, etc. These are all ways in which to communicate your ideas to a wide variety of people throughout your community. 

     The emergence of digital technologies and Web 2.0, as I previously talked about, have allowed for new ways of composing; compare to previous time periods. It has allowed everyone to convey their ideas and respond to exigences, which makes them an everyday writer (but a writer nonetheless). Jenkins speaks about the very first "spam" that had ever happened on the internet, and people were furious; although other businesses saw this as a great way to advertise their company through the internet, so they began to make their own "spam." As we can see today, this type to advertising is everywhere on the internet. This spam is even now "personalized" from computer to computer, using your browsing history to figure out exactly which advertising should be showing on your Facebook page. Many people have problems with this because they are concerned with their privacy, which is understandable, but I think it is fascinating how far technology and the internet as gone that it has a memory to put up advertisements for Victoria's Secret, instead of Home Depot. 

Journal #9

Being a writer in the 21st century is a lot different then say being a writer in the 20th century or earlier. That being because of how writing and technology has progressed into what it is today. A writer in the 21st century can be from the common person that tweets or puts up a Facebook status to a book author. A writer in the 21st century doesn't have to write a book or anything like that to be considered a "writer" in todays time. In my opinion all they really need to do is be able to produce a form of writing that they can self publish. 

I strongly believe that the emergence of digital technologies and Web 2.0 has allowed for new way of composing. I believe this because with the continuing improvement of technology and how we use it it leaves so many different choices for everyday writers to produce a piece of work. From social medias to blogs it doesn't matter what form of technology a person is using because they are apart of the society of 21st century writers. If you think about it like Jami brought up you can find almost any printed form of writing accessible on the computer or any other form of technology. I see more and more people everyday using a Tablet or iPad to read a book rather than actually have the hard copy of the book. One of the main reason because using a form of technology to read a book for example is more convenient then carrying around a book. You can have several book in on piece of technology which is easy to carry around then several books. Technology is making it more efficient for people to read, write, and compose than it used to be. 

Journal #9

Being a writer in the 21^st century carries different meaning than being a writer in the 18^th century. First of all, much of the technology that we use today to compose our writing was not yet invented. To write, one also had to be literate and in the 18^th century that was mostly the elite and upper classes. Writing was a formal affair in the 18^th century due to the nature of the writers. Now, in the 21^st century, technological advances and a wider range of education available have enabled anyone to write. Writing has grown to consist of not only putting pen to paper but also typed writing using the latest technology. To be a writer now also means that technological tools like tagging promote collaboration in writing.

Digital technologies certainly have allowed new ways of composing and have also allowed for informal and non-professional writing. Blogging has become a prevalent form of writing recently, afforded by digital technologies and Web 2.0. Blogs allowed people of all walks of life to share in the opportunities of writing and composing. Writing can now be considered unpublished work about almost anything.

In Lessig’s “RW, Revived,” the idea is presented that citing well-respected authors can strengthen one’s argument by making a point that your words alone cannot make. As Simone pointed out in her journal, any writer is afforded the right to cite another writer using proper citations through our democratic society. However, this is often taken for granted by writers today and in other forms of media like videos and music, this democratic right is not shared. I agree that the precautions followed for obtaining permission to use another’s work should be reevaluated due to the new democratic nature of every form of expression.