Journal #3

Writing, technology, and circulation can all not exist without the continuation of one another.  To write, technology must be utilized for the simple act (be it a pencil or keyboard) and circulation is required for the writing to reach an audience.  Technology exists and develops because instructions, studies, and the like are all written and circulated amongst users and developers.  Circulation requires a medium in need of transport (writing) and uses technology for this travel.

As all of these concepts coordinate and coexist, they also develop simultaneously.  Technology is what will typically lead this development.  When a new form of technology is introduced, it expands circulation and provides a new media for writing.  This allows the platform to reach a larger audience, thus expanding the target goal of the writer.  In addition to technology as the main tripod, increased circulation often allows the writer to use their skill more often and usually brings them access to better technology, and increased writing I would say leads to more circulation and a greater interest for new technologies geared towards this trade.

Additionally, the purposeful regression of this triage will often lend a great significance to the message being offered.  Hand-writing a letter and sending it through the mail is going to seem more effortful, and thereby more genuine, than using Snapchat.  We mail graduation announcements, thank you notes, and holiday cards not just for formality and tradition, but for the fact that it makes it seem like we might really care.

House of Cards is a great example of this.  After a fallout with the president, VP Frank Underwood uses a typewriter (archaic technology) to send a letter by page/bodyguard (decreased speed of circulation), with the letter discussing a boyhood tale (personal writing vs quick note).  The president is more easily swayed by this gesture; although he has been ignoring phone calls and emails, the sheer effort of a letter is enough to make him pause and reconsider the situations.

I suppose rather than it being regression, it is effort that has a greater significance.  Taking additional time instead of utilizing the simplifying triumvirate means that the intended audience might actually mean something to you, because you are devoting 60 seconds to 1 message instead of 1 minute to 60 messages.