Journal#6 - Eric Calderon

The main way that I think mobility has changed writing is by how the author approaches how he or she will write the piece to begin with. With the emergence of the internet and social media, it is now a lot easier than probably ever before to get a writing piece out to the public. We no longer have to depend on paper exclusively to get a large audience to see either scholarly articles, short stories, or novels, since we live in a world that has several types of mediums that we can now look at writing on anywhere that internet connection is relatively available. Even now, with the emergence with e readers like the Kindle, you can now download entire novels to this device and read it anytime you chose to. Also, our internet dominant society has allowed the audience for a writing piece to expand drastically, to say the very least. When a writer posts his or her writing piece to either a magazine website, or a social media website like Facebook or Twitter, within seconds, it can be shared across thousands all the way to millions of people .The restrictions that existed twenty years ago are much different than the ones that existed one hundred years ago, costs and ability to not only spread writing to a large amount of people, was extremely more difficult than it is today. Now, we no longer have to worry about the ability to spread writing to the entire world, since it is now far easier to spread the This can be a good thing and a bad thing, in the sense that many people can have an opinion on this topic, which can create dialogue if the article requires or implies it. However, there is a great chance that a large audience can take a writing piece heavily out of context, which can hinder the overall perception of the wiring piece and ruin the intention of the writing piece. Overall, there are significant advantages of the mobility of a piece of writing being exploited to its maximum potential. The amount of people who can access the given piece of writing can both help and hurt the writing piece.