Writing is the act of communicating through words or symbols on the surface of some material. Technology is the application of knowledge to create innovative tools or means that makes a process easier or more efficient. Circulation is the continuous flow or distribution of texts across many locations and mediums.The relationship between these three is that they all somewhat depend on each other and also enhance one another. For instance, one of the main purposes of writing is to communicate. If a text, letter, or other written document meant to be communicated could not get to other people, it would have no purpose. Therefore, it needs to circulate to other people to get the message across. Although many people do not see it in this way, writing is technology. Writing is a means of making communication easier, and it is therefore a tool to to make that process more efficient. Therefore, writing, technology, and circulation depend one each other, because one without the other two would be pointless. These three also enhance one another. Through technological advancement, circulation is easier than ever before. Before computers, there was circulation of texts, but it was not as efficient as present day technology makes it. With the internet and smartphones, sending a message to someone or posting an article can be done instantaneously. With social media like twitter and Facebook, articles and other written documents can be “retweeted” and “shared” over and over again, reaching a large amount of people. Writing, too, enhances technology. Without writing, there would be no way for computer scientists and inventors to communicate with one another, and there would be little if any technological advancement. Therefore, writing, technology, and circulation are closely connected with each other and in some way depend on one another.
What is the difference between, writing, technology, and circulation?
Writing, now-a-days, is circulated by technology. We use technology obsessively. To do homework, check social media, state opinions, and communicate. We are almost always using some form of technology. I think these three terms are completely intertwined. We write something, lets say a tweet, as Penney and Dadas talk about, which is mainly used for “quick communication. We not only are writing a quick form of communication, but we are writing it using technology and to circulate our opinion, statement, or response with other people. Technology is a main form of circulation today. That’s where we are informed with news, all newspapers are written online with advertisements linking to them circulating throughout other websites. That’s where we communicate with one another, like commenting on a status on Facebook, responding to a tweet, or “liking” a photo on Instagram. Each time a photo is liked, it is bumped to the top of the newsfeed to recirculate to make sure everyone else sees it. However, these three terms could not operate without one another. As Ong stated, writing is “alone” in a text. Although I disagree with this, if you are writing a text with no one to share it with, to keep to yourself, then you are not circulating this text, and communicating the information. These days, unless you’re sending a pigeon with a letter, if you do not communicate through technology, nothing you say is going to be heard. Currently I write for an online article database, and no one would know who we were or what we wrote about if it weren’t for mediums such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. The differences between these words are what they do FOR a text. Meaning, writing is just writing to yourself without sharing, Technology is just technology without the use of communication along with it. And communication between one and another is just a conversation, unless it is circulated throughout the world for everyone else to listen to and chime in on.
Writing, technology, and circulation are all very closely related. In some situations, they are even dependent on each other. For instance, a piece of writing can be circulated using technology. In last week's journal, I gave an example of Facebook comments. A comment on Facebook is a piece of writing, Facebook being the way it's circulated, and because you need technology (iPad, iPhone, a computer, etc.) to use Facebook, the three work together in order to get a message out.
In Edbauer’s article, we read an argument that Margaret Syverson made about writing that is spot on to the relationship between writing, technology, and circulation. She explains how writing is a distributed act, not just an isolated act of creation among individuals. She brings up the idea that rhetoric has a reputation of holding a triangular position of writer, text, and audience. However, technology makes it possible for us to distribute writing, or circulate it, across physical, social, psychological, spatial, and temperal dimensions, greatly widening the reach that the triangular model allows for.
Technology plays a huge role in this. If not for technology, the reach of a message is limited. Technology allows messages to be communicated quickly, as well as to a large audience. If I send an email, it reaches another inbox in minutes. Text messages, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, seconds. This directly impacts how the writing is circulated and strengthens the chances of it being received.
Technology can mean something different, however, when it comes to writing and circulation. It is not necessarily about gadgets we use to do things and communicate. Writing is a technology in itself because technology is an innovation that makes doing something easier. So, writing is a way to make communicating a message easier. If something is written, it's preserved, and because so, it can be circulated many many more times than if it were just spoken. I think this is important because no one really thinks of writing as being a form of technology. This approach opens a lot of different ways of thinking about it and can lead to a whole different way in which writing, technology, and circulation are interdependent.
Writing, technology, and circulation are a linear process, easily simplified to these three terms in order= creation, sharing, and awareness. When one writes something, they take it upon themselves to let their thoughts be known, whether personal or factual. They take a certain courageous approach, deciding to work hard and convert their knowledge and wisdom into the written word, but other than a dictionary which is solely meant for your personal life, what is writing meant to do? Well, taking a page off of Bitzer's ideology though I may not agree with all of them, one of writings main goals should be to make an audience think, feel, and above all, take action. That's when technology steps in.
With so many innovations happening nearly every minute of our cyber age, search engines and social sites such as Facebook, Buzzfeed, Tumblr, Twitter, the list is nearly endless, have made our lives far more aware. Even when automatically opening your MSN, the news articles immediately pop up in your face. Had it only been the television (which I believe is gradually losing its purpose) and newspaper's purpose to tell the news or books that are only published to let the public know about another person's thought process, I do not believe the world will be as curious nor aware as we are now. Smartphones, computers, the cloud, the internet, all of technology aids in limitless ways. Someone can post their own thesis on what makes television obsolete without needing to go through the crazy process of publishing it, now everyone can read it simply on a webpage. Now sharing writing is one thing, but what makes writing have more credibility? That is, what makes it popular?
Circulation is the key to making everyone stay on the same platform as the rest. When people make something go viral, this could either be really good or really bad considering the "what" in this situation. For example, making an internet meme go viral is simple harmless stupid fun. But making the meme go viral above an article that was about the Black Lives Matter movement is very toxic. We as a people should make it a priority to circulate the most crucial things in terms of our society since, even though the internet is fun, it's still the most powerful tool to circulate important things. Now what makes something important in comparison to another is subjective, but I believe we can all agree that another Kim Kardashian scandal can wait in comparison to a recent bombing in Manhattan that I had not heard about if it weren't for my mother hearing on Facebook and then calling me on my smartphone. Technology is the best tool for sharing writing and it is up to the people to decide whether it spreads or not.
Writing is a form of communication or self-expression by use of words or symbols represented through some form of medium. Technology is just a term we use to represent a new applied knowledge or invention that has been created to solve a previous problem. Circulation is the flow of writing, texts, and media throughout the public. All of these terms are connected and our current world relies on all of them to convey information and conversation to a large number of people. I think technology is kind of a relative term because I think most people think only of computers when they think of technology; however, thousands of years ago writing was considered a new technology just like computers are today. However, when it comes to technology in the modern world computers and the Internet play a pivotal role in writing and circulation. In the past decade our world has been introduced to a new and more efficient way of circulating thoughts, ideas, and information to a vast number of people and that new technology is called social media. Before social media, we had e-mail and before that people would only communicate with writing through letters. The only other way to inform the public on something or express an opinion was to become a magazine and newspaper writer. Nowadays through social media everyone can be a writer because just one tweet or Facebook post could go viral and millions of people could see it. Before social media, the media could only guess what the majority of people wanted to talk about or how they felt about a particular topic. However, now the media knows exactly what people want to talk about and how they feel about it due to what is trending on twitter or how many likes a video or post receives. Technology has become the most substantial form of circulating thoughts and information throughout the world. Although mediums such as Youtube are a more visual way of conveying thoughts and information, some of the most popular social media sites feature writing as the primary form of communication. So in that way all three terms are connected in our new social media world. We use writing, either through a post in Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr, to convey information or an opinion and the technology of the social media allows that post to be circulated throughout the media across the world.
Writing, technology, and circulation, while being three completely different things, are very much connected to each other. Writing is a system of symbols and shapes that represent words in a common language that a multitude of people can understand, and therefore use to record and communicate information. Technology is defined as the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. In the case of writing, this can mean a variety of things, including the medium or platform of the writing, and even the means by which it was written. The most obvious example would include the use of computers and the Internet to write and communicate with other people through writing. The invention of the Internet makes it possible to quickly pass information between people in very different geographical locations. This is where circulation comes into play. Circulation refers to who knowledge- or writing in this case- reaches, or the pubic availability of information. Because of the technology we have today, it is easier than ever before to share information and writing with people all over the world. Everything from Internet search engines, social media sites, and personal messaging, makes the virtually instant wide spread sharing of information possible. Technology helps to dictate the effectiveness of the circulation. Even before the Internet existed, information and writing was still spread through the invention of newspapers, books, magazines, and other paper-based technologies. The advancement of technology has allowed an even larger variety of mediums to be possible for connecting people. Video, film, music, and radio, are just a few other examples of how technology determines how widespread circulation can be over a multitude of platforms.
Writing is a means of using personal style and quality to make particular words coherent. Technology is the creation of equipment made available to people to exercise and grasp knowledge. Circulation is the velocity of movement in which facts are made aware the public eye. The relationship between writing, technology, and circulation is that they are interdependent of one another due to the fact that each one supports and allows the others to flourish.
In regards to writing, Penney and Dadas state that “…language should be studied within a social context.” Meaning, that your writing should adhere somewhat to the outlet that you mean to have your words promoted onto. Whether it’s personal emotional writing in your journal, or the limited 140 character sentence you’ve composed to “tweet” via Twitter. I support both Penney and Dadas’ thoughts on the fact that “…circulation and composition are inextricably linked,” because no matter what, your composed writing is meant for a particular specialized purpose. The purpose of your writing can be for any reason and can address any situation.
Even Bitzer believed that, “rhetorical discourse is called into existence by situation; the situation which the rhetor perceives amounts to an invitation to create and present discourse” (Bitzer, 9). He feels that rhetorical situations correlates to invited utterances that are necessary to complete the situational activity. For example, Bitzers’ words support the idea that because the movement known as Occupy Wall Street (OWS) needed a media output to sensor their movement, networked technologies such as Twitter helped protestors to digitally communicate with each other efficiently and effectively. OWS is a perfect showcase of how a community who all supported one another in their beliefs came together to create a media output to quickly circulate and protest their thoughts. The protestors of this movement are proof that writing can be circulated instantaneously through the assistance of technology. Further than that, the media outlets, for example their Twitter circulation that is advocating their views daily not only helps coordinate their attendance of these protest but also opens the platform to reach potential audiences in support of their cause. The circulation of their written words through the technological social media network Twitter allows for their theories to influence individuals everywhere without delay. Therefore not only does technology allow writing reach various audiences but it’s abrupt circulation allows for the broadening of audiences as well.
The relationship between writing, technology, and circulation in today's society are closely intertwined. Each are very important and depend on each other for the cycle to be completely processed. If I had to make a graph or mapping of the three terms I would place writing at the head of the triangle and technology and circulation at the base of the triangle's two points. In my eyes, it begins with writing and the content behind an article or journal because I think its important to aim for a niche or specific audience that will want to take interest in what you have to write before anything. In other words it places a tone that will set up circulation through the use of technology. I am an avid tumblr user so when I post collective writings and/ or poems (lyrics), I am aiming for a specific bunch. I may use hashtags to try to branch out my work to a specific crowd, and I may attach photos to make my post more appealing (just examples); but through the process of circulation and posting, technology is constantly being used throughout the whole process. It takes an iPhone app for me to use Tumblr or I log onto my Apple computer to post. Tumblr within its self is a technological social media app that thrives on people like me and you who enjoy writing and posting. So with that being said all three terms use and need each other to complete the process. Back when there weren't phones and computers, technologies like newspapers and radio news broadcasts circulated what was being written at the time. Writing and Technology have always been present throughout history, and as technology only advances, I ask myself, will the art of writing have to keep up with all the evolutionary technologies today and in the future or do these technologies have to keep up with the writings of today? Hmm, perhaps a silly question, perhaps not.
Essentially I think all three of these things are crucial to spreading a message or your thoughts. Writing is the physical action of recording your thoughts and/or feelings in general or in response to someone/something. We use technology such as our phones, computers, and tablets to communicate and share our thoughts. This circulation can be done through various mediums and platforms. Circulation is spreading a message, idea, thought, or even a product around your immediate community or a broader community. Now in 2016, the easiest and fastest way in order to circulate a message is to post it online. The Internet has made everything we write, post, share, etc. easily accessible from anywhere in the world at any time. They can be completely independent from eachother, but in respect to circulation theses three things are intertwined. You can write for yourself and not share it with anyone. Technology will always be present even if you don’t use it to share, comment, and communicate.
Today the only way to successfully circulate a photo, video, message is to post it online on your preferred platform. Whether that be Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, etc. posting what you want to circulate online will always be more effective than printing it out, saying it out loud, or giving out physical copies. Technology makes circulation possible, effective, and efficient. Messages can be sent in seconds through email, text, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. Technology also extends the reach of the writing/message because it can reach a huge number of people through circulation. For example, online publications have Facebook pages where they post all of their content. If a reader likes their content like an article or video, then they’ll most likely share it so their Facebook friends can read/see it. This is a domino effect and then results in circulation. Some articles and videos have millions of views, likes, comments, and shares because of the fact that users are sharing the content with their communities, therefore creating circulation. Social media platforms have given us, companies, and publications the ability to circulate our opinions, thoughts, and ideas easily.
The relationship between writing, technology and circulation has been ever evolving throughout history. Without one another, writing for communication would be almost useless. Writing is in itself a technology created by humans. Writing was created to help humans communicate with one another more efficiently and as a human we have a natural need to communicate with one another and through the advancement of technology we have been able to more effective communicate and circulate messages with one another. When one writes, they write to document a message for further observation and possible to share with others. Writing can be used to portray a message or simply just to communicate with others, but without any kind of audience to observe said message, the message becomes useless. In order for a writing message to reach and audience, there needs to be some form of circulation. Throughout history the way we circulate our messages has evolved as our technology has advanced. For example, Jolly talk about how letter writing was a main form of political campaigning and still is today, though a group of women in the 1980s were effectively able to create a community of letter writers to lobby political action and become a form of protest. It became so effective because of how well they were able to circulate their messages as well as the vast amount of messages they were able to circulate without the use of modern technology. Penny and Dadas talked about how technology has helped the velocity of the circulation of a message. The OWS group has been able to communicate with an extremely large audience just through a 140-character message via twitter. They can update their followers in real time about their protests and keep everyone informed on what their message is and how and where they’re going to organize protest events so more people can participate. As technology has advanced it has become easier for humans to put a message into circulation as well as widen their audience. Without circulation, depending on the exigence of the writing, a written message would be useless and without technology there would be no way for a writing message to reach and audience and effectively communicate a message.
When it comes to writing, technology, and circulation, they are all essential in spreading a message throughout various mediums and reaching a variety of audiences. Together, they form the base of communication between author and reader, and connect/inform individuals. In the reading from Margaretta Jolly we get an insight in how writing and circulation came together during the time of the Women’s Peace Movement. Through the writing and interchanging of letters, people who shared the same common goal and beliefs were able to easily communicate with one another and form friendships while at the same time expanding the campaign. Without the use circulation, the message that they were trying to spread across would not have been achieved, since their writing would be limited to their surrounding locations.
In today’s modern world, technology helps to make circulation easier. Unlike the form that the Women’s Peace Movement used, technology eases the way in which writing can reach others. What would have once taken days to reach just one individual now takes a matter of seconds and has the ability to reach thousands of others in one instance. The reading from Joel Penney and Caroline Dadas talks about this subject, and gives the example of Occupy Wall Street. Just like the other reading, it touches base on how writing, circulation, and/or technology come together to help fuel a political/social movement. The platform we have all come to know—Twitter—helped begin this “modern-day revolution” through the use of hashtags; activities were closely coordinated and thoughts were freely expressed and seen by users from around the world.
With the ever-growing development of technology, spreading messages has become as easy as logging into a social media platform and posting a status or tweet. With Jolly’s writing we are able to understand just how circulation worked prior to the development of the technology we have today, while also highlighting the importance of it. Meanwhile, Penney’s and Dada’s brought forth the use of technology and how it has vastly improved the way writing can circulate at a much faster pace and have the ability to reach anyone worldwide, thus establishing the connection between writing, circulation, and technology.
Writing is the the activity or skill of marking coherent words on paper or composing text. Writing is used to transmit ideas or thoughts. But how do we as a people come to see those ideas? With the rise of different technologies throughout the past few centuries, our potential audience has grown from the members of a small town to numbers upwards of billions. Without technology, writing wouldn’t be here today but without writing, certain technologies also wouldn't be where they are today. Technically, we have reached a point in human history where, theoretically, paper does not have to exist in first world countries. The rise of the personal computer and smartphone have also given rise to different platforms that allow a shmuck to be heard. I’m writing this journal entry on a public online blog that has the potential to give access to anyone with a computer and internet. The previous sentences describes how writing, technology, and circulation all relate in my life currently. But let’s talk about something that more people might actually see…like a CNN news article. “US Preliminary Conclusion Finds Russian Warplanes Hit Aid Convoy” was the first headline I saw on their website. I admit, it’s a mouth full but it was a very interesting article about how the Russians are breaking basic human rights laws for the benefit of the Syrian government by bombing an aid convoy. This was an aid convoy ran by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent which is basically the Red Cross of Syria. It was going to go help civilians who had lost their homes in the government bombings. This gets me HEATED. Anyways, instead of having to either grab the morning paper from my front lawn or sliding by a ‘New York Times’ paper stand to see the latest news, I was able to see the absolute latest news and read about the atrocities happening across the globe. The last time this article was updated was 3:37 pm. It is currently 4:10. It has been a total of twenty-three minutes from when this article was either published or amended to when my eyes grazed its lushes information. Technology allows for ideas and thoughts to be heard instantaneously on any part of the globe.
Writing is the the activity or skill of marking coherent words on paper or composing text. Writing is used to transmit ideas or thoughts. But how do we as a people come to see those ideas? With the rise of different technologies throughout the past few centuries, our potential audience has grown from the members of a small town to numbers upwards of billions. Without technology, writing wouldn’t be here today but without writing, certain technologies also wouldn't be where they are today. Technically, we have reached a point in human history where, theoretically, paper does not have to exist in first world countries. The rise of the personal computer and smartphone have also given rise to different platforms that allow a shmuck to be heard. I’m writing this journal entry on a public online blog that has the potential to give access to anyone with a computer and internet. The previous sentences describes how writing, technology, and circulation all relate in my life currently. But let’s talk about something that more people might actually see…like a CNN news article. “US Preliminary Conclusion Finds Russian Warplanes Hit Aid Convoy” was the first headline I saw on their website. I admit, it’s a mouth full but it was a very interesting article about how the Russians are breaking basic human rights laws for the benefit of the Syrian government by bombing an aid convoy. This was an aid convoy ran by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent which is basically the Red Cross of Syria. It was going to go help civilians who had lost their homes in the government bombings. This gets me HEATED. Anyways, instead of having to either grab the morning paper from my front lawn or sliding by a ‘New York Times’ paper stand to see the news, I was able to see the absolute latest news and read about the atrocities happening across the globe. The last time this article was updated was 3:37 pm. It is currently 4:10. It has been a total of twenty-three minutes from when this article was either published or amended to when my eyes grazed its luscious information. Technology allows for ideas and thoughts to be heard instantaneously on any part of the globe.
In order to describe the relationship between writing, technology, and circulation, I think it is first important to define each of the three terms. So to start, writing is the process of communication that uses symbols and letters to form words on either paper or some other outlet. Writing can be either a completely creative process or it can be used to convey facts or stories. The second term is technology. Technology is probably the most malleable term of the three. Technology is continuously changing especially in present day. But, if I were to define it I would say technology is products, devices, and methods that expedite normal processes and make human life easier. Lastly, circulation can be defined as the way people share information or connect with one another. Circulation can be letter writing, or instant messaging, or simply posting comments on a blog post. All of these things take written words and information and “circulate” them amongst multiple audiences. Now that these three terms have been adequately defined they can be compared and contrasted in order to discover relationships between the three. The first relationship I found interesting was brought to my attention through Penney and Dadas’ text Tweeting in the Service of Protest”, they discussed the idea of how twitter limits users to 140 characters. This is interesting due to the fact that Penney and Dadas came to the conclusion that “composition is directly linked to circulation”. This got me thinking a very strong relationship resides between writing, technology, and circulation. Not only does writing style and the message behind a text affect the way it is circulated, but also as Marshall McLuhan discovered, the medium through which a text is presented is as important if not more important as the message itself. Therefore, in a world with constantly evolving technology, a writer must always be aware of the most effective way to present their work so that it circulates amongst their audience properly. Writing is also directly linked to technology because with new technology comes new ways to write. Like I stated earlier one of the more interesting way of circulating and connecting ideas is the coming about of blogs and comment functions. This is a unique aspect that affects all creators of art and writers of text. This allows the audience to directly connect to the text. All of these things work together to form their own rhetorical triangle in modern day writing.
The melding of writing, technology and circulation creates an extensive variety of ways to expand the reach of writing to a wider audience across a large plane of mediums. We know that writing can only reach as far as the medium it is presented in allows. A book can only reach those who read it. However, if you have access to technology you can find many books, circulated on the Internet through various recommendations from other people. Technology allows for writing to reach a wider audience as it presents a wider range of mediums. You can write on a computer, for television and news, and write music, among other things. Through technology, the writing can also be circulated to a great degree. The existence of the Internet has allowed writing to reach anyone with access to it. The circulation of writing through the internet and social media can spread ideas and persuade others through rhetoric to induce change or start movements. The article from Penney and Dadas touches on Twitter as a device of “rhetorical circulation”; since one is limited to only 140 characters, authors who compose on twitter will try to find the best way to convey an idea to someone in a short message or series of short messages. Twitter’s structure allows for information presented in writing to circulate at an extremely quick rate. Suppose one person sends out a powerful and thought provoking tweet that is subsequently retweeted by several of their followers. Those followers will now broadcast it to their feeds, presenting this idea to their followers as well, who may retweet it to their followers, and so the chain continues. Soon enough, people may screenshot the tweet and post it to other social media sites such as Facebook, where an even wider audience will be exposed to it and circulate it even more. Writing, technology and circulation can work together to spread ideas to an even wider range of audience.
In an ever-growing technological world, information has the ability to spread and reach places that were never imagined. Now, people are able to type virtually any question into a search bar and receive an accurate response. Writing has found a way to circulate through the ages whether it be by paper or saved on a computer. Writing can virtually reach millions. Writing, circulation and technology all play very important roles in research. The three words prompt me to think of Libraries. For example: FSU students have access to a library with books full of printed words by authors from all around the world. Beyond the physical books, the FSU database online offers articles, e-books, journals, and tons of other forms of information. All of this is at every student’s fingertips because of the advances in technology that allow circulation. People can piggyback off of each other’s ideas, learn from one another and teach each other with the help of written resources. The library shows the drastic strides that technology has made from having archives of books on shelves to an internet database. Technology allows the circulation process to get easier and easier every day. With this in mind, technology also raises as a problem for this generation. Restricted information can easily leak to the entire world. This can be as serious as secret government information to a person’s private Facebook statuses being seen by a future employer. Technology created social applications like Instagram and Twitter along with things like gossip blogs and Buzzfeed articles. People’s honest opinions and feelings can be shared with the world but also fake, slanderous information is capable of spreading like rapid fire because of technology. Good and bad, writing can potentially reach just about anyone. The range that writing circulates within has grown immensely with the expansion of the internet and computer-use. The three words work together in today’s society and one does not really exist without the other. The relationship between those three has grown closer and closer and continues to do so. Connecting people and their ideas has been made possible with technology, resulting in extremely accessible information widespread throughout the world.
In order to better understand the connection between writing, technology, and circulation, one must first learn the definitions of each term. When performing the act of writing, you are representing language(s) in a form that is either visual or tactile. The application of this method can only be achieved through the use of technology, which brings to light the first of many relationships that will be discussed. Now, it's a bit difficult to give just one definition of the word technology, for many scholars have found it to be a complex term. For this instance, one could say that technology is a method, process, or device that fulfills a human purpose. It can be material, or non-material. Writing itself could be considered a non-material technology. Writing is a method used to get a message across, tell a story, bring light to an important topic; to fulfill a human purpose. You are also using a tool or device to fulfill this purpose, which is a form of material technology. One could use a pen, pencil, marker, colored pencil, typewriter, a quill with ink, a computer; the list goes on. Technology can also be used to circulate writing, or to make it publicly available across various outlets. When you want to say something to a large amount of people, you may go to facebook for that purpose. Granted, it's not always the best idea, but you see where I'm going with this. It's a simplified way of circulating your message. Circulation can also be defined as a "movement to and fro or around something;" an Oxford dictionary definition. This can also be done through magazines, blog posts, letters, text messages, etc. So, we see that there is an on going relationship between these three terms: writing, technology, and circulation, and that it's easier to understand the connection when knowing the various definitions for each words.
I have been into Sylvia Plath references a lot lately, so I'll be somewhat unoriginal and start off with a quote, "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Not sure if there's a theme (probably isn't.) The relationship between writing, technology, and circulation is better ordered "the relationship between writing and circulation, (and how technology has changed the dynamic.)" Writing, at its most literal, is the marriage of thoughts and documentation. Although to write for oneself is fine, think Emily Dickinson or Sylvia Plath, writing also serves a heavier purpose to connect people; to communicate and relate. Writing needs to transport itself, move thoughts, and translate ideas. Dare I say, it has to circulate. Circulation is vital to any written publication. Take, for example, the Bible. The word of God has literally been reprinted in so many various shapes and sizes from the huge books featured on televised weddings to keychains they used to give out at my elementary Sunday school. In this sense, circulation is the movement of a single text. In another context, the one that is what probably first pops into people's minds when they hear "circulation" is what is in circulation at a publication, such as a newspaper or magazine. In this case, circulation is the ever changing content reaching a wide audience. Or, a library, and the book's it circulates. Like The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Technology has changed the circulation of works. So long are the days of the printing press. Hello, blogs and ebooks (where you can download the works of, yes, Sylvia Plath.) Technology makes publishing work easily accessible to a wider audience.
The three things writing, technology, and circulation are all related in some way, yet they each have their own unique properties. The first thing, writing, is the process of recording information or stories to be shared by other people. Writing is essential to information being able to be spread across the globe. As writing has evolved over time, so has our knowledge as a species, because we are able to learn more information at a faster rate. In order for writing to be impactful, it must be circulated. Circulation occurs when something is shared and repeated numerous times so that a wide range of people are exposed to it. Circulation is an essential part of the writing process, because it is responsible for a person's thoughts and stories for being shared on a large scale. However, circulation wouldn't be as efficient without the use of technology. The rise of technology has allowed writing to be circulated faster and on a larger scale. Technology has always been around. The early days of writing with quill and ink and parchment was still a form of technology. With the rise of electronic and print technology however, writing has become more and more prominent. The rise of technology has allowed people to communicate more easily with others. Writing, technology, and circulation are all related, and all of them are important to the process of sharing information.
Writing, Technology, and Circulation go hand-in-hand in my book. They all work together as a cycle. Writing is action of putting down words on paper and/or a computer. It is the material an author communicates to a reader. Circulation is the literal cycle a piece or material goes through to reach an audience. Once an author has composed a piece, in whatever manner they have chosen, they must then concentrate on how they will deliver their piece. Technology allows for materials to be easily produced, shared, etc. It is an advancement made to offer simplicity. Circulation and technology can go hand-in-hand, technology can be used as a form of circulation. Ex: The Internet. Where do people go to when they need information? Entertainment? Where do people go out of boredom?... The internet. Often, authors go to the internet to post and share their pieces. There are various forms of social media that go under the category of "circulation" because they are constantly racking up views. Technology is in my opinion a simplicity provided to boost circulation in regards to writing. If an author feels that their piece is ready for production, they must now decide how they will circulate their piece. This is where you tie in technology, exposing how the three, if properly done go hand-in-hand with delivering a successful piece of writing
Writing, technology and circulation, when used together, are the perfect tools for reaching a high rate of spreadability. As computers, media outlets, cell phones and softwares become more technologically advanced, a channel opens up for writing to travel through and circulate among mass quantities of different audiences. For example, take social media outlets that have been introduced in the past century, such as Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Through the use of computers and cell phones, you can write a tweet, a post or a status about whatever you want. Once you share what you’ve written it immediately shows to all your friends. They can then reshare what you’ve written, circulating to all of their friends and so on. Its emerging as the #1 way to circulate rhetoric and can reach international audiences very quickly and easily. Another example of the mass spreadability writing, technology and circulation achieve together are blogs. So many millennials are becoming successful through the creation of a blog, another newer technology. You can create your own website and write whatever you feel like writing; a how to blog, a personal diary blog, you name it. Now, it’s as if all notebooks and journals are digital. You can share your work on the World Wide Web with millions and millions of viewers. Like the previous example, if someone reads your blog they can share it on their social media. They can easily give the link to a friend who would be interested in it. Those shares create more shares and the possibilities are endless. As technology advances further, more and more people are using it. Almost everyone has a cell phone or a personal tablet or computer. We are constantly checking these social media cites, our texts, the news online, etc.. The constant use of these platforms allows the circulation of writing to be so successful. These mediums have morphed audiences all over the world together, allowing almost anyone in the world to see what you’ve written, all from the comfort of where ever they reside. It can be both a good or bad thing, as tweets have been marked as ruining careers and reputations within minutes. But through these advancements, communication in rhetoric has been easier than ever.
Writing is the act of communicating through words or symbols on the surface of some material. Technology is the application of knowledge to create innovative tools or means that makes a process easier or more efficient. Circulation is the continuous flow or distribution of texts across many locations and mediums.The relationship between these three is that they all somewhat depend on each other and also enhance one another. For instance, one of the main purposes of writing is to communicate. If a text, letter, or other written document meant to be communicated could not get to other people, it would have no purpose. Therefore, it needs to circulate to other people to get the message across. Although many people do not see it in this way, writing is technology. Writing is a means of making communication easier, and it is therefore a tool to to make that process more efficient. Therefore, writing, technology, and circulation depend one each other, because one without the other two would be pointless. These three also enhance one another. Through technological advancement, circulation is easier than ever before. Before computers, there was circulation of texts, but it was not as efficient as present day technology makes it. With the internet and smartphones, sending a message to someone or posting an article can be done instantaneously. With social media like twitter and Facebook, articles and other written documents can be “retweeted” and “shared” over and over again, reaching a large amount of people. Writing, too, enhances technology. Without writing, there would be no way for computer scientists and inventors to communicate with one another, and there would be little if any technological advancement. Therefore, writing, technology, and circulation are closely connected with each other and in some way depend on one another.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the difference between, writing, technology, and circulation?
ReplyDeleteWriting, now-a-days, is circulated by technology. We use technology obsessively. To do homework, check social media, state opinions, and communicate. We are almost always using some form of technology. I think these three terms are completely intertwined. We write something, lets say a tweet, as Penney and Dadas talk about, which is mainly used for “quick communication. We not only are writing a quick form of communication, but we are writing it using technology and to circulate our opinion, statement, or response with other people. Technology is a main form of circulation today. That’s where we are informed with news, all newspapers are written online with advertisements linking to them circulating throughout other websites. That’s where we communicate with one another, like commenting on a status on Facebook, responding to a tweet, or “liking” a photo on Instagram. Each time a photo is liked, it is bumped to the top of the newsfeed to recirculate to make sure everyone else sees it. However, these three terms could not operate without one another. As Ong stated, writing is “alone” in a text. Although I disagree with this, if you are writing a text with no one to share it with, to keep to yourself, then you are not circulating this text, and communicating the information. These days, unless you’re sending a pigeon with a letter, if you do not communicate through technology, nothing you say is going to be heard. Currently I write for an online article database, and no one would know who we were or what we wrote about if it weren’t for mediums such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. The differences between these words are what they do FOR a text. Meaning, writing is just writing to yourself without sharing, Technology is just technology without the use of communication along with it. And communication between one and another is just a conversation, unless it is circulated throughout the world for everyone else to listen to and chime in on.
Writing, technology, and circulation are all very closely related. In some situations, they are even dependent on each other. For instance, a piece of writing can be circulated using technology. In last week's journal, I gave an example of Facebook comments. A comment on Facebook is a piece of writing, Facebook being the way it's circulated, and because you need technology (iPad, iPhone, a computer, etc.) to use Facebook, the three work together in order to get a message out.
ReplyDeleteIn Edbauer’s article, we read an argument that Margaret Syverson made about writing that is spot on to the relationship between writing, technology, and circulation. She explains how writing is a distributed act, not just an isolated act of creation among individuals. She brings up the idea that rhetoric has a reputation of holding a triangular position of writer, text, and audience. However, technology makes it possible for us to distribute writing, or circulate it, across physical, social, psychological, spatial, and temperal dimensions, greatly widening the reach that the triangular model allows for.
Technology plays a huge role in this. If not for technology, the reach of a message is limited. Technology allows messages to be communicated quickly, as well as to a large audience. If I send an email, it reaches another inbox in minutes. Text messages, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, seconds. This directly impacts how the writing is circulated and strengthens the chances of it being received.
Technology can mean something different, however, when it comes to writing and circulation. It is not necessarily about gadgets we use to do things and communicate. Writing is a technology in itself because technology is an innovation that makes doing something easier. So, writing is a way to make communicating a message easier. If something is written, it's preserved, and because so, it can be circulated many many more times than if it were just spoken. I think this is important because no one really thinks of writing as being a form of technology. This approach opens a lot of different ways of thinking about it and can lead to a whole different way in which writing, technology, and circulation are interdependent.
Writing, technology, and circulation are a linear process, easily simplified to these three terms in order= creation, sharing, and awareness. When one writes something, they take it upon themselves to let their thoughts be known, whether personal or factual. They take a certain courageous approach, deciding to work hard and convert their knowledge and wisdom into the written word, but other than a dictionary which is solely meant for your personal life, what is writing meant to do? Well, taking a page off of Bitzer's ideology though I may not agree with all of them, one of writings main goals should be to make an audience think, feel, and above all, take action. That's when technology steps in.
ReplyDeleteWith so many innovations happening nearly every minute of our cyber age, search engines and social sites such as Facebook, Buzzfeed, Tumblr, Twitter, the list is nearly endless, have made our lives far more aware. Even when automatically opening your MSN, the news articles immediately pop up in your face. Had it only been the television (which I believe is gradually losing its purpose) and newspaper's purpose to tell the news or books that are only published to let the public know about another person's thought process, I do not believe the world will be as curious nor aware as we are now. Smartphones, computers, the cloud, the internet, all of technology aids in limitless ways. Someone can post their own thesis on what makes television obsolete without needing to go through the crazy process of publishing it, now everyone can read it simply on a webpage. Now sharing writing is one thing, but what makes writing have more credibility? That is, what makes it popular?
Circulation is the key to making everyone stay on the same platform as the rest. When people make something go viral, this could either be really good or really bad considering the "what" in this situation. For example, making an internet meme go viral is simple harmless stupid fun. But making the meme go viral above an article that was about the Black Lives Matter movement is very toxic. We as a people should make it a priority to circulate the most crucial things in terms of our society since, even though the internet is fun, it's still the most powerful tool to circulate important things. Now what makes something important in comparison to another is subjective, but I believe we can all agree that another Kim Kardashian scandal can wait in comparison to a recent bombing in Manhattan that I had not heard about if it weren't for my mother hearing on Facebook and then calling me on my smartphone. Technology is the best tool for sharing writing and it is up to the people to decide whether it spreads or not.
Writing is a form of communication or self-expression by use of words or symbols represented through some form of medium. Technology is just a term we use to represent a new applied knowledge or invention that has been created to solve a previous problem. Circulation is the flow of writing, texts, and media throughout the public. All of these terms are connected and our current world relies on all of them to convey information and conversation to a large number of people. I think technology is kind of a relative term because I think most people think only of computers when they think of technology; however, thousands of years ago writing was considered a new technology just like computers are today. However, when it comes to technology in the modern world computers and the Internet play a pivotal role in writing and circulation. In the past decade our world has been introduced to a new and more efficient way of circulating thoughts, ideas, and information to a vast number of people and that new technology is called social media. Before social media, we had e-mail and before that people would only communicate with writing through letters. The only other way to inform the public on something or express an opinion was to become a magazine and newspaper writer. Nowadays through social media everyone can be a writer because just one tweet or Facebook post could go viral and millions of people could see it. Before social media, the media could only guess what the majority of people wanted to talk about or how they felt about a particular topic. However, now the media knows exactly what people want to talk about and how they feel about it due to what is trending on twitter or how many likes a video or post receives. Technology has become the most substantial form of circulating thoughts and information throughout the world. Although mediums such as Youtube are a more visual way of conveying thoughts and information, some of the most popular social media sites feature writing as the primary form of communication. So in that way all three terms are connected in our new social media world. We use writing, either through a post in Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr, to convey information or an opinion and the technology of the social media allows that post to be circulated throughout the media across the world.
ReplyDeleteWriting, technology, and circulation, while being three completely different things, are very much connected to each other. Writing is a system of symbols and shapes that represent words in a common language that a multitude of people can understand, and therefore use to record and communicate information. Technology is defined as the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. In the case of writing, this can mean a variety of things, including the medium or platform of the writing, and even the means by which it was written. The most obvious example would include the use of computers and the Internet to write and communicate with other people through writing. The invention of the Internet makes it possible to quickly pass information between people in very different geographical locations. This is where circulation comes into play. Circulation refers to who knowledge- or writing in this case- reaches, or the pubic availability of information. Because of the technology we have today, it is easier than ever before to share information and writing with people all over the world. Everything from Internet search engines, social media sites, and personal messaging, makes the virtually instant wide spread sharing of information possible. Technology helps to dictate the effectiveness of the circulation. Even before the Internet existed, information and writing was still spread through the invention of newspapers, books, magazines, and other paper-based technologies. The advancement of technology has allowed an even larger variety of mediums to be possible for connecting people. Video, film, music, and radio, are just a few other examples of how technology determines how widespread circulation can be over a multitude of platforms.
ReplyDeleteWriting is a means of using personal style and quality to make particular words coherent. Technology is the creation of equipment made available to people to exercise and grasp knowledge. Circulation is the velocity of movement in which facts are made aware the public eye. The relationship between writing, technology, and circulation is that they are interdependent of one another due to the fact that each one supports and allows the others to flourish.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to writing, Penney and Dadas state that “…language should be studied within a social context.” Meaning, that your writing should adhere somewhat to the outlet that you mean to have your words promoted onto. Whether it’s personal emotional writing in your journal, or the limited 140 character sentence you’ve composed to “tweet” via Twitter. I support both Penney and Dadas’ thoughts on the fact that “…circulation and composition are inextricably linked,” because no matter what, your composed writing is meant for a particular specialized purpose. The purpose of your writing can be for any reason and can address any situation.
Even Bitzer believed that, “rhetorical discourse is called into existence by situation; the situation which the rhetor perceives amounts to an invitation to create and present discourse” (Bitzer, 9). He feels that rhetorical situations correlates to invited utterances that are necessary to complete the situational activity. For example, Bitzers’ words support the idea that because the movement known as Occupy Wall Street (OWS) needed a media output to sensor their movement, networked technologies such as Twitter helped protestors to digitally communicate with each other efficiently and effectively. OWS is a perfect showcase of how a community who all supported one another in their beliefs came together to create a media output to quickly circulate and protest their thoughts. The protestors of this movement are proof that writing can be circulated instantaneously through the assistance of technology. Further than that, the media outlets, for example their Twitter circulation that is advocating their views daily not only helps coordinate their attendance of these protest but also opens the platform to reach potential audiences in support of their cause. The circulation of their written words through the technological social media network Twitter allows for their theories to influence individuals everywhere without delay. Therefore not only does technology allow writing reach various audiences but it’s abrupt circulation allows for the broadening of audiences as well.
The relationship between writing, technology, and circulation in today's society are closely intertwined. Each are very important and depend on each other for the cycle to be completely processed. If I had to make a graph or mapping of the three terms I would place writing at the head of the triangle and technology and circulation at the base of the triangle's two points. In my eyes, it begins with writing and the content behind an article or journal because I think its important to aim for a niche or specific audience that will want to take interest in what you have to write before anything. In other words it places a tone that will set up circulation through the use of technology. I am an avid tumblr user so when I post collective writings and/ or poems (lyrics), I am aiming for a specific bunch. I may use hashtags to try to branch out my work to a specific crowd, and I may attach photos to make my post more appealing (just examples); but through the process of circulation and posting, technology is constantly being used throughout the whole process. It takes an iPhone app for me to use Tumblr or I log onto my Apple computer to post. Tumblr within its self is a technological social media app that thrives on people like me and you who enjoy writing and posting. So with that being said all three terms use and need each other to complete the process. Back when there weren't phones and computers, technologies like newspapers and radio news broadcasts circulated what was being written at the time. Writing and Technology have always been present throughout history, and as technology only advances, I ask myself, will the art of writing have to keep up with all the evolutionary technologies today and in the future or do these technologies have to keep up with the writings of today? Hmm, perhaps a silly question, perhaps not.
ReplyDeleteEssentially I think all three of these things are crucial to spreading a message or your thoughts. Writing is the physical action of recording your thoughts and/or feelings in general or in response to someone/something. We use technology such as our phones, computers, and tablets to communicate and share our thoughts. This circulation can be done through various mediums and platforms. Circulation is spreading a message, idea, thought, or even a product around your immediate community or a broader community. Now in 2016, the easiest and fastest way in order to circulate a message is to post it online. The Internet has made everything we write, post, share, etc. easily accessible from anywhere in the world at any time. They can be completely independent from eachother, but in respect to circulation theses three things are intertwined. You can write for yourself and not share it with anyone. Technology will always be present even if you don’t use it to share, comment, and communicate.
ReplyDeleteToday the only way to successfully circulate a photo, video, message is to post it online on your preferred platform. Whether that be Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, etc. posting what you want to circulate online will always be more effective than printing it out, saying it out loud, or giving out physical copies. Technology makes circulation possible, effective, and efficient. Messages can be sent in seconds through email, text, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. Technology also extends the reach of the writing/message because it can reach a huge number of people through circulation. For example, online publications have Facebook pages where they post all of their content. If a reader likes their content like an article or video, then they’ll most likely share it so their Facebook friends can read/see it. This is a domino effect and then results in circulation. Some articles and videos have millions of views, likes, comments, and shares because of the fact that users are sharing the content with their communities, therefore creating circulation. Social media platforms have given us, companies, and publications the ability to circulate our opinions, thoughts, and ideas easily.
The relationship between writing, technology and circulation has been ever evolving throughout history. Without one another, writing for communication would be almost useless. Writing is in itself a technology created by humans. Writing was created to help humans communicate with one another more efficiently and as a human we have a natural need to communicate with one another and through the advancement of technology we have been able to more effective communicate and circulate messages with one another.
ReplyDeleteWhen one writes, they write to document a message for further observation and possible to share with others. Writing can be used to portray a message or simply just to communicate with others, but without any kind of audience to observe said message, the message becomes useless. In order for a writing message to reach and audience, there needs to be some form of circulation. Throughout history the way we circulate our messages has evolved as our technology has advanced. For example, Jolly talk about how letter writing was a main form of political campaigning and still is today, though a group of women in the 1980s were effectively able to create a community of letter writers to lobby political action and become a form of protest. It became so effective because of how well they were able to circulate their messages as well as the vast amount of messages they were able to circulate without the use of modern technology.
Penny and Dadas talked about how technology has helped the velocity of the circulation of a message. The OWS group has been able to communicate with an extremely large audience just through a 140-character message via twitter. They can update their followers in real time about their protests and keep everyone informed on what their message is and how and where they’re going to organize protest events so more people can participate.
As technology has advanced it has become easier for humans to put a message into circulation as well as widen their audience. Without circulation, depending on the exigence of the writing, a written message would be useless and without technology there would be no way for a writing message to reach and audience and effectively communicate a message.
When it comes to writing, technology, and circulation, they are all essential in spreading a message throughout various mediums and reaching a variety of audiences. Together, they form the base of communication between author and reader, and connect/inform individuals. In the reading from Margaretta Jolly we get an insight in how writing and circulation came together during the time of the Women’s Peace Movement. Through the writing and interchanging of letters, people who shared the same common goal and beliefs were able to easily communicate with one another and form friendships while at the same time expanding the campaign. Without the use circulation, the message that they were trying to spread across would not have been achieved, since their writing would be limited to their surrounding locations.
ReplyDeleteIn today’s modern world, technology helps to make circulation easier. Unlike the form that the Women’s Peace Movement used, technology eases the way in which writing can reach others. What would have once taken days to reach just one individual now takes a matter of seconds and has the ability to reach thousands of others in one instance. The reading from Joel Penney and Caroline Dadas talks about this subject, and gives the example of Occupy Wall Street. Just like the other reading, it touches base on how writing, circulation, and/or technology come together to help fuel a political/social movement. The platform we have all come to know—Twitter—helped begin this “modern-day revolution” through the use of hashtags; activities were closely coordinated and thoughts were freely expressed and seen by users from around the world.
With the ever-growing development of technology, spreading messages has become as easy as logging into a social media platform and posting a status or tweet. With Jolly’s writing we are able to understand just how circulation worked prior to the development of the technology we have today, while also highlighting the importance of it. Meanwhile, Penney’s and Dada’s brought forth the use of technology and how it has vastly improved the way writing can circulate at a much faster pace and have the ability to reach anyone worldwide, thus establishing the connection between writing, circulation, and technology.
Writing is the the activity or skill of marking coherent words on paper or composing text. Writing is used to transmit ideas or thoughts. But how do we as a people come to see those ideas? With the rise of different technologies throughout the past few centuries, our potential audience has grown from the members of a small town to numbers upwards of billions. Without technology, writing wouldn’t be here today but without writing, certain technologies also wouldn't be where they are today. Technically, we have reached a point in human history where, theoretically, paper does not have to exist in first world countries. The rise of the personal computer and smartphone have also given rise to different platforms that allow a shmuck to be heard. I’m writing this journal entry on a public online blog that has the potential to give access to anyone with a computer and internet. The previous sentences describes how writing, technology, and circulation all relate in my life currently.
ReplyDeleteBut let’s talk about something that more people might actually see…like a CNN news article. “US Preliminary Conclusion Finds Russian Warplanes Hit Aid Convoy” was the first headline I saw on their website. I admit, it’s a mouth full but it was a very interesting article about how the Russians are breaking basic human rights laws for the benefit of the Syrian government by bombing an aid convoy. This was an aid convoy ran by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent which is basically the Red Cross of Syria. It was going to go help civilians who had lost their homes in the government bombings. This gets me HEATED. Anyways, instead of having to either grab the morning paper from my front lawn or sliding by a ‘New York Times’ paper stand to see the latest news, I was able to see the absolute latest news and read about the atrocities happening across the globe. The last time this article was updated was 3:37 pm. It is currently 4:10. It has been a total of twenty-three minutes from when this article was either published or amended to when my eyes grazed its lushes information. Technology allows for ideas and thoughts to be heard instantaneously on any part of the globe.
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DeleteWriting is the the activity or skill of marking coherent words on paper or composing text. Writing is used to transmit ideas or thoughts. But how do we as a people come to see those ideas? With the rise of different technologies throughout the past few centuries, our potential audience has grown from the members of a small town to numbers upwards of billions. Without technology, writing wouldn’t be here today but without writing, certain technologies also wouldn't be where they are today. Technically, we have reached a point in human history where, theoretically, paper does not have to exist in first world countries. The rise of the personal computer and smartphone have also given rise to different platforms that allow a shmuck to be heard. I’m writing this journal entry on a public online blog that has the potential to give access to anyone with a computer and internet. The previous sentences describes how writing, technology, and circulation all relate in my life currently.
ReplyDeleteBut let’s talk about something that more people might actually see…like a CNN news article. “US Preliminary Conclusion Finds Russian Warplanes Hit Aid Convoy” was the first headline I saw on their website. I admit, it’s a mouth full but it was a very interesting article about how the Russians are breaking basic human rights laws for the benefit of the Syrian government by bombing an aid convoy. This was an aid convoy ran by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent which is basically the Red Cross of Syria. It was going to go help civilians who had lost their homes in the government bombings. This gets me HEATED. Anyways, instead of having to either grab the morning paper from my front lawn or sliding by a ‘New York Times’ paper stand to see the news, I was able to see the absolute latest news and read about the atrocities happening across the globe. The last time this article was updated was 3:37 pm. It is currently 4:10. It has been a total of twenty-three minutes from when this article was either published or amended to when my eyes grazed its luscious information. Technology allows for ideas and thoughts to be heard instantaneously on any part of the globe.
In order to describe the relationship between writing, technology, and circulation, I think it is first important to define each of the three terms. So to start, writing is the process of communication that uses symbols and letters to form words on either paper or some other outlet. Writing can be either a completely creative process or it can be used to convey facts or stories. The second term is technology. Technology is probably the most malleable term of the three. Technology is continuously changing especially in present day. But, if I were to define it I would say technology is products, devices, and methods that expedite normal processes and make human life easier. Lastly, circulation can be defined as the way people share information or connect with one another. Circulation can be letter writing, or instant messaging, or simply posting comments on a blog post. All of these things take written words and information and “circulate” them amongst multiple audiences.
ReplyDeleteNow that these three terms have been adequately defined they can be compared and contrasted in order to discover relationships between the three. The first relationship I found interesting was brought to my attention through Penney and Dadas’ text Tweeting in the Service of Protest”, they discussed the idea of how twitter limits users to 140 characters. This is interesting due to the fact that Penney and Dadas came to the conclusion that “composition is directly linked to circulation”. This got me thinking a very strong relationship resides between writing, technology, and circulation. Not only does writing style and the message behind a text affect the way it is circulated, but also as Marshall McLuhan discovered, the medium through which a text is presented is as important if not more important as the message itself. Therefore, in a world with constantly evolving technology, a writer must always be aware of the most effective way to present their work so that it circulates amongst their audience properly. Writing is also directly linked to technology because with new technology comes new ways to write. Like I stated earlier one of the more interesting way of circulating and connecting ideas is the coming about of blogs and comment functions. This is a unique aspect that affects all creators of art and writers of text. This allows the audience to directly connect to the text. All of these things work together to form their own rhetorical triangle in modern day writing.
The melding of writing, technology and circulation creates an extensive variety of ways to expand the reach of writing to a wider audience across a large plane of mediums. We know that writing can only reach as far as the medium it is presented in allows. A book can only reach those who read it. However, if you have access to technology you can find many books, circulated on the Internet through various recommendations from other people. Technology allows for writing to reach a wider audience as it presents a wider range of mediums. You can write on a computer, for television and news, and write music, among other things. Through technology, the writing can also be circulated to a great degree. The existence of the Internet has allowed writing to reach anyone with access to it.
ReplyDeleteThe circulation of writing through the internet and social media can spread ideas and persuade others through rhetoric to induce change or start movements. The article from Penney and Dadas touches on Twitter as a device of “rhetorical circulation”; since one is limited to only 140 characters, authors who compose on twitter will try to find the best way to convey an idea to someone in a short message or series of short messages. Twitter’s structure allows for information presented in writing to circulate at an extremely quick rate. Suppose one person sends out a powerful and thought provoking tweet that is subsequently retweeted by several of their followers. Those followers will now broadcast it to their feeds, presenting this idea to their followers as well, who may retweet it to their followers, and so the chain continues. Soon enough, people may screenshot the tweet and post it to other social media sites such as Facebook, where an even wider audience will be exposed to it and circulate it even more. Writing, technology and circulation can work together to spread ideas to an even wider range of audience.
In an ever-growing technological world, information has the ability to spread and reach places that were never imagined. Now, people are able to type virtually any question into a search bar and receive an accurate response. Writing has found a way to circulate through the ages whether it be by paper or saved on a computer. Writing can virtually reach millions.
ReplyDeleteWriting, circulation and technology all play very important roles in research. The three words prompt me to think of Libraries. For example: FSU students have access to a library with books full of printed words by authors from all around the world. Beyond the physical books, the FSU database online offers articles, e-books, journals, and tons of other forms of information. All of this is at every student’s fingertips because of the advances in technology that allow circulation. People can piggyback off of each other’s ideas, learn from one another and teach each other with the help of written resources. The library shows the drastic strides that technology has made from having archives of books on shelves to an internet database. Technology allows the circulation process to get easier and easier every day.
With this in mind, technology also raises as a problem for this generation. Restricted information can easily leak to the entire world. This can be as serious as secret government information to a person’s private Facebook statuses being seen by a future employer. Technology created social applications like Instagram and Twitter along with things like gossip blogs and Buzzfeed articles. People’s honest opinions and feelings can be shared with the world but also fake, slanderous information is capable of spreading like rapid fire because of technology. Good and bad, writing can potentially reach just about anyone.
The range that writing circulates within has grown immensely with the expansion of the internet and computer-use. The three words work together in today’s society and one does not really exist without the other. The relationship between those three has grown closer and closer and continues to do so. Connecting people and their ideas has been made possible with technology, resulting in extremely accessible information widespread throughout the world.
In order to better understand the connection between writing, technology, and circulation, one must first learn the definitions of each term. When performing the act of writing, you are representing language(s) in a form that is either visual or tactile. The application of this method can only be achieved through the use of technology, which brings to light the first of many relationships that will be discussed. Now, it's a bit difficult to give just one definition of the word technology, for many scholars have found it to be a complex term. For this instance, one could say that technology is a method, process, or device that fulfills a human purpose. It can be material, or non-material. Writing itself could be considered a non-material technology. Writing is a method used to get a message across, tell a story, bring light to an important topic; to fulfill a human purpose. You are also using a tool or device to fulfill this purpose, which is a form of material technology. One could use a pen, pencil, marker, colored pencil, typewriter, a quill with ink, a computer; the list goes on. Technology can also be used to circulate writing, or to make it publicly available across various outlets. When you want to say something to a large amount of people, you may go to facebook for that purpose. Granted, it's not always the best idea, but you see where I'm going with this. It's a simplified way of circulating your message. Circulation can also be defined as a "movement to and fro or around something;" an Oxford dictionary definition. This can also be done through magazines, blog posts, letters, text messages, etc. So, we see that there is an on going relationship between these three terms: writing, technology, and circulation, and that it's easier to understand the connection when knowing the various definitions for each words.
ReplyDeleteI have been into Sylvia Plath references a lot lately, so I'll be somewhat unoriginal and start off with a quote, "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Not sure if there's a theme (probably isn't.) The relationship between writing, technology, and circulation is better ordered "the relationship between writing and circulation, (and how technology has changed the dynamic.)" Writing, at its most literal, is the marriage of thoughts and documentation. Although to write for oneself is fine, think Emily Dickinson or Sylvia Plath, writing also serves a heavier purpose to connect people; to communicate and relate. Writing needs to transport itself, move thoughts, and translate ideas. Dare I say, it has to circulate. Circulation is vital to any written publication. Take, for example, the Bible. The word of God has literally been reprinted in so many various shapes and sizes from the huge books featured on televised weddings to keychains they used to give out at my elementary Sunday school. In this sense, circulation is the movement of a single text. In another context, the one that is what probably first pops into people's minds when they hear "circulation" is what is in circulation at a publication, such as a newspaper or magazine. In this case, circulation is the ever changing content reaching a wide audience. Or, a library, and the book's it circulates. Like The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Technology has changed the circulation of works. So long are the days of the printing press. Hello, blogs and ebooks (where you can download the works of, yes, Sylvia Plath.) Technology makes publishing work easily accessible to a wider audience.
ReplyDeleteThe three things writing, technology, and circulation are all related in some way, yet they each have their own unique properties. The first thing, writing, is the process of recording information or stories to be shared by other people. Writing is essential to information being able to be spread across the globe. As writing has evolved over time, so has our knowledge as a species, because we are able to learn more information at a faster rate. In order for writing to be impactful, it must be circulated. Circulation occurs when something is shared and repeated numerous times so that a wide range of people are exposed to it. Circulation is an essential part of the writing process, because it is responsible for a person's thoughts and stories for being shared on a large scale. However, circulation wouldn't be as efficient without the use of technology. The rise of technology has allowed writing to be circulated faster and on a larger scale. Technology has always been around. The early days of writing with quill and ink and parchment was still a form of technology. With the rise of electronic and print technology however, writing has become more and more prominent. The rise of technology has allowed people to communicate more easily with others. Writing, technology, and circulation are all related, and all of them are important to the process of sharing information.
ReplyDeleteWriting, Technology, and Circulation go hand-in-hand in my book. They all work together as a cycle. Writing is action of putting down words on paper and/or a computer. It is the material an author communicates to a reader. Circulation is the literal cycle a piece or material goes through to reach an audience. Once an author has composed a piece, in whatever manner they have chosen, they must then concentrate on how they will deliver their piece. Technology allows for materials to be easily produced, shared, etc. It is an advancement made to offer simplicity. Circulation and technology can go hand-in-hand, technology can be used as a form of circulation. Ex: The Internet. Where do people go to when they need information? Entertainment? Where do people go out of boredom?... The internet. Often, authors go to the internet to post and share their pieces. There are various forms of social media that go under the category of "circulation" because they are constantly racking up views. Technology is in my opinion a simplicity provided to boost circulation in regards to writing. If an author feels that their piece is ready for production, they must now decide how they will circulate their piece. This is where you tie in technology, exposing how the three, if properly done go hand-in-hand with delivering a successful piece of writing
ReplyDeleteWriting, technology and circulation, when used together, are the perfect tools for reaching a high rate of spreadability. As computers, media outlets, cell phones and softwares become more technologically advanced, a channel opens up for writing to travel through and circulate among mass quantities of different audiences. For example, take social media outlets that have been introduced in the past century, such as Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Through the use of computers and cell phones, you can write a tweet, a post or a status about whatever you want. Once you share what you’ve written it immediately shows to all your friends. They can then reshare what you’ve written, circulating to all of their friends and so on. Its emerging as the #1 way to circulate rhetoric and can reach international audiences very quickly and easily. Another example of the mass spreadability writing, technology and circulation achieve together are blogs. So many millennials are becoming successful through the creation of a blog, another newer technology. You can create your own website and write whatever you feel like writing; a how to blog, a personal diary blog, you name it. Now, it’s as if all notebooks and journals are digital. You can share your work on the World Wide Web with millions and millions of viewers. Like the previous example, if someone reads your blog they can share it on their social media. They can easily give the link to a friend who would be interested in it. Those shares create more shares and the possibilities are endless. As technology advances further, more and more people are using it. Almost everyone has a cell phone or a personal tablet or computer. We are constantly checking these social media cites, our texts, the news online, etc.. The constant use of these platforms allows the circulation of writing to be so successful. These mediums have morphed audiences all over the world together, allowing almost anyone in the world to see what you’ve written, all from the comfort of where ever they reside. It can be both a good or bad thing, as tweets have been marked as ruining careers and reputations within minutes. But through these advancements, communication in rhetoric has been easier than ever.
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