Digital text seems to be refashioning print.This invention of digital text has been growing yearly. Started with a fat computer sitting on a desk to a thin laptop sitting on your lap. Instead of waiting to get your paper published it can easily be publish right on a computer screen to the world instead of waiting for someone pass by it at a library or at a nail salon looking through a magazine/newspaper. It's amazing how a computer can hold a whole library. With the digital text you can easily get feedback on what you write from plenty of people. For example, Dr Lay has us write blogs daily for the whole class to see. After posting the blog, she has people comment each post for feedback on what to take out or put in. She also helps bring out our ideas to other students. Personally I read everything through the internet. Even though I may get distracted by going on Facebook or shopping online, it doesn't change the idea of what the person is writing. Maybe I'm just getting distracted because what I'm reading is boring.
I really appreciate the image you make of the fat computer sitting on a desk to a thin laptop sitting on your lap. These new technologies of writing are so close to us, yes? They claim important places (topos) in our lives; they have weight, too. Way cool.
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