Monday, March 21, 2016

      With the invention of technology and the enhancement and expansion of it over time, new mediums and vehicles have been created through which writing has changed. Technology has given writing a mobility which has caused it to be less personal and thoughtful but at the some time more accessible and widespread. Now that writing has mobility, and can move through huge groups of people, it can now almost take on a living form. It can be changed and be added to and then even remixed or assembled. This is very much unlike before writing had mobility. Before the age of technology, writing was created by hand-writing something out or printing one copy at a time. Each letter/copy took time and effort. If a mistake was made, one would have to start all over. The concept of it being changed was impossible because before technology and mobility, there were only physical copies of writing and there was usually only one. The beauty of mobility is that one can change writing while still having access to the original text. Before mobility, if something would have been changed or remixed, then the original copy would've been gone. Also, before technology people didn't really have the correct tools to take texts and change them. Mobility shows us that writing isn't stationary. It isn't just one singular thing, it's many and it can always grow. Mobility shows us that writing can be as infinite as we want it to be.
      Mobility has also shown us different ways we can write something. We can use pictures instead of words, or hashtags to connect us to a movement, or we can be less formal in the way we say things. We can adapt our writing to the platform we are making it for and to the people we wish to reach with it. Mobility has also taught us that we can say what we want to in many different ways and it is also taught us how easy writing can actually be. Mobility has made writing much less difficult. It also has inspired people who may not have had the desire to create text before mobility because they thought it took too much effort or was pointless because no one would see it. Now with mobility, it is guaranteed that people will see it.

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