A writer in this century is definitely different than a writer in previous centuries. Lessig talks a lot about how much of an effort it is to quote someone and why an author might be mad rather than honored when a student asks to quote his work. Lessig explained this by saying it's the nature of writing that gives people the right to demand such lengths to be taken when their work wants to be quoted. It's the idea that writing is democratic. In this century, most people have a means to write. And to write, one has to take something someone has said and build upon it. He talks specifically about the difference between taking quotes from an article vs. taking quotes from a movie or song. The difference in these two types of texts are that the writing in the article anyone can do and writing a script or song lyrics is something that professionals do. Therefore, the restrictions on lyrics and scripts are much higher than your average article. I like how he talked about how getting information from text is barely seen anymore in this century. We get most of our information from either the television, internet, or radio. That is a major difference in the writing and writers that create that writing in this century.
The emergence of digital technologies and Web 2.0 allows for new ways of composing. He talks in the article about how the internet did not create new forms of writing, however it opened up these forms of media to everyone. By using technology, we can write with basically any form of text.
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