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.