Monday, February 1, 2016

Journal 2


            I believe networks, writing, and materiality all must be used in unison in order to construct a proper form of communication. Without these three we would not be able to converse and send messages as well as we do. For example, the material we write can easily change depending on what network one is writing on. It could vastly change from a letter to now days a Facebook post or Twitter tweet. Generally you can decipher the materiality of ones writing depending what network they’re writing on. The tone in a letter could be more serious while if writing a Facebook post you are able to add emoticons to emphasize your emotions.
Furthermore, When it comes to Writing and networks these are also very important to one another. Without a network, there would be no group or people to communicate with and without writing trying to communicate with a group would be nearly impossible. The main type of networking discussed by Bazerman in his letter “in its directness of communication between two parties within a specific relationship in specific circumstances (all of which could be commented on directly), seemed to provide a flexible medium out of which many functions, relationships, and institutional practices might develop — making new uses socially intelligible at the same time as allowing the form of the communication to develop in new directions”. Through technology this form of networking has grown into bigger things such as our current post office and communicating through social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

Without networks, writing, and materiality communication would not be the same. They are essential and could not work with out one another.

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