Journal response #2

Materials, networks, and writing are all connected to each other because all three components are needed to function as a method of communication. First there is a material, which is the physical thing that the writing is on or made out of. It is the medium through which a writing is done. This material could be a number of different things; a pen, a piece of paper, a poster, a computer etc. Usually a piece of writing can contain multiple materials, but no writing can exist without at least one material. Then, there is the actual writing itself, which is the message that the writing communicated and the physical letters of that message. If it weren’t for materials, there would be no place to put the writing, and without the writing, the materials would have no use. Now that there is writing and it exists on/in a material, the writing has to be communicated to have worth, and communication of writing couldn’t happen without networks. A network is the way that writing is communicated. A network can take many forms; an emailing list, a blog, a social network site, a group chat, a rally, etc. A network is basically any kind of communication between two or more parties. A party can be a single person or multiple people. It doesn’t matter, as long as the writing is being communicated.

  Going further, the type of material, writing, and network one uses for a piece of writing can change how the message is received, interpreted, and used. Sending a piece of mail rather than an email can get a very different response. Since mail is something that someone can physically hold in their hands and that actually takes effort to send, the receiver is more like to read it and understand/follow the message. And email takes less effort to open and is more likely to be deleted with there other fifty emails people usually think are junk mail.