Journal 10

Respond to "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". After having researched and written about media, do you agree that the nature of writing, power, and knowledge is changing as technology is increasingly democratized? Does this inform your ePortfolio assignment?'

Yes, I do believe that since the rise of technology, the nature of writing and communication has changed drastically. Because of blogs, social networking sites, and even online restaurant ordering systems have stopped the communication of people face to face, and started a whole new generation of a different form of writing. No longer do people send each other long letters discussing what they have done recently in their lives, instead they write a sentence long "post" on their "wall" for them to "like." It completely changes traditional forms of writing and replaces it with a fake, public form of communication that can be viewed by all. As technology continues to increase, the value of communication and writing decreases at the same rate.