Blog Response 1

            The means of writing has changed and adapted to the technologically advancing world, however, this does not mean the writing experience has changed completely. Throughout the last couple of centuries new technologies have revolutionized the way written language is transcribed and communicated by using old technologies as a template. The experience of writing may have been altered aesthetically, but it remains mostly the same process and result.

            In What’s New About Media Gitelman and Pingree argue against the irrelevance of “old media” and supersession. They claim that at some time all media was “new media” and that every piece of “old media” has historical significance in the pathway to the technologies we currently use. They also claim that the media used constructs perception of the world, which means that the message and the media are interrelated. Jim Porter tends to feel that the process of writing has changed over his personal career due to the advancements in typing and computer technology. I feel that writing itself has remained the same, although the audience has changed greatly. Social networking most noticeably has created an audience for anyone who has anything to write. The audience a rhetor is writing to may change what and how they write, but this has always been the case since written language was invented.