It was honestly hard to differentiate the ideas of circulation and mobility from each other. But then I kept reading and figured out that mobility, in terms of technology, deals with a more physical force than circulation, dealing with how far things can travel or who they can reach to according to actual land and the way that the writing is seen. Molz spoke about how traveling involved using technologies to "create on the road know-how", and it honestly made me think of a language conversion application. I cannot name names, but there is a certain application that is almost like a Snapchat filter, where you hold your camera over a sign in another language or even a menu and it translates the words into your native language to help you go through the new country. This sort of technology has encouraged mobility, but also has encourages controversy in that people were arguing that such a technology was making learning and writing languages obsolete since you could just look at what you want to see rather than actually learn or study it. I think that this highlights how mobility does inspire innovation, but it also does indeed sort of encourage a sort of, for lack of a better term, laziness and a need for quick convenience. Even Molz spoke about how understanding the world was much easier when it was seen rather than just heard about, so there was a need for understanding at a greater level than some others weren't probably able to achieve. Mobility makes me realize that convenience and a need for understanding said material is usually the priority, but then it did also get me thinking about how this technology somewhat isolated other people who may have wanted to learn as well. Not everyone has iphones or access to such technology, so this risk of alienation makes writing almost like a privilege rather than a right. And what about translations? There are books and texts out there that are written in other languages and dialects that could take years to study for, yet our technology and greater education compared to the past (at least for people who can afford it) has enabled books from all across the globe to be shipped over to us in translated texts so that everyone can enjoy it and learn from the different cultures. Mobility then has changed writing in that now everyone must be considered, not just people within one country, but realizing that one powerful bit of text can reach across the planet and inspire others, this makes writers realize that with writing comes heavy responsibility. Not only that, but technology has increased mobility, with the usage of laptops and mobile phones and such, and because of this technology thriving, the tech itself has also spread across the globe just as much as books have, if not even more since the world is so digital now. This has enabled underdeveloped countries to be granted more access to even more writing and knowledge and understanding of the world and its cultures, both in beneficial ways and sadly, in harmful ways as well, as all things usually do.
Mobility as it is defined in writing shares many similarities with circulation, and is closely intertwined with audience and accessibility. Mobility has much to do with spatial and geographic space, and how writing can physically travel across land and sea to spread among readers. In the past, this mobility was dependent upon messengers on horseback, which was a slow and unreliable method. Many of this mobility today is made better by the advancement of technology that makes our world seem just a little bit smaller and just a little bit less lonely. In a sense, technology gives us the ability to instantly cross oceans without actually moving a muscle, and allows the spread of information and ideas through writing. Cell phones, for example, are such a large presence in our lives that greatly enhances mobility. Now, people don’t have to hop on planes, trains, and automobiles in order to speak to their friends and families that live far away. Mobile phones lessen the spatial distance between people, and the same can be said with writing. Smart phones, laptops, and anything else with easy access to the Internet, allow geography to be less significant a factor in communication through writing. It is so much easier to call your mother who lives in Kentucky then to wait to speak to her until you fly home for Christmas. Even for people without this technology, can gain access to writing through the mobility of physical text, such as in the form of books. A book contains a selection of writing that is stored between two covers pages, and can then be moved as a whole unit. Books can travel through transportation vehicles to cross space, or they can even be spread through the Internet. This mobility allows knowledge and thinking to be spread even to places where laptops and smartphones aren’t commonplace, such as in 3rd world countries in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America. With the advancement of technology the mobility of text has greatly increased, and now more people can have access to new knowledge and ideas.
The author mentions in the article that mobility has changed writing because now it serves the purpose of spreading knowledge. However, knowledge when it comes to mobility has changed from what it used to be. Before, travelling was viewed as more for scientific discovery; however, nowadays we travel for leisure as a tourist. We see mobility, or travelling, as a kind of spiritual journey where we are supposed to discover something about ourselves. Now that we have mediums like social media, people who travel want to share the knowledge they have collected, so they share their experiences and pictures with their friends and family. There are now travel forums and blogs online where people can share their experience from the place they travelled to so that other people who want to travel to that location in the future can have some advice before they go. I think that social media has really changed mobility because people want to read the experiences of others who have already travelled to where they are planning to go so that they can have the best experience. For example, before I decided to go to Paris this past summer, I looked on Pinterest for inspiration on what cafes I should go to. Someone had posted a picture and summary of a beautiful little Parisian café near Notre Dame. When I read the fantastic experience she had eating there, I decided to check it out myself and I ended up loving it. It is impossible to be aware of all the beautiful cafes in Paris and without that girl writing about her experience, I would have never known about it. Therefore, I think that mobility has changed writing because it’s near impossible not to learn something when your travelling and people want to share their new knowledge with the world through writing. One of the other common ways we gain knowledge is through school or education; however, usually students don’t care enough to write about what they’re learning in class unless they’re required to. Therefore, mobility is one of the most popular ways with which people are gaining knowledge that they want to share with others. The more people travel and move around, the more experiences they gather and ultimately the more they want to write about it.
Especially during these modern times, with so much improved digital technology and innovations that are constantly being made, mobility greatly influences writing and how we interact with people’s writing. Writing used to be stationary. If it were mobile, it was because someone brought a book somewhere with them, or a newspaper, magazine, etc. Now, we have devices that carry information with us and can pull information from the internet and cater it to us within seconds. We interact with people’s writing wherever we are and writing can reach anyone, basically anywhere. This greatly impacts the potential of messages and news. Molz says in her Article that “interactive travel is implicated in a broader paradigm constituted by the relationship between mobility, technology, and knowledge” (89). Technology makes writing mobile, which easily makes knowledge very spreadable. I think this mobility has changed writing because it very much changes how people think about what they’re going to put out into the world because there’s also so much more room now for personal opinion and for those opinions to be posted. People get scared of differing views and being shut down, so they might not post something they would if it didn’t have that much of a change of reaching a lot of people.
I find the concept of travel blogs in Molz’s article very interesting too. She says that when travelers began posting things on their blogs, the content and writing was praised, but also the technical accomplishment. This technicality gives way to connectivity. She explains how connectivity is an object of knowledge- it is “a means of sharing knowledge and as proof of technological know-how” (93). Although connectivity has become less remarkable, as she notes, I do think it still holds major importance when it comes to studying how mobility affects writing. Connectivity leads to collaboration. People can add to ideas and discuss them on a public, online platform, which in turn leads to new knowledge. Without the influences of other people and the input from other people, some knowledge may not even occur. I think this is very relevant to what Molz has to say about the relationship between knowledge and the social realm and that “the production of knowledge is always social” (97). This is because knowledge cannot be conceived independently of the communication network that comes from multiple subjects.
Mobility has greatly impacted writing and changed the way writing works and what it is capable of because of how it connects people and gives way to new knowledge.
More so than ever before, mobility has become a large factor in the process of writing. With the age of technology that we live in, most things are becoming mobile. Our phones contain almost everything we need to gain information about anything we want. All a person has to do is go on Google for five seconds and they can find the answer to anything they want. Also, we can write and publish things at a touch of a button. If we feel the need to share thoughts and information with someone, we can simply send a text message or post it on social media. This is far different from the era before technology existed. People were not able to reach as wide of an audience before the Internet existed. When discussing mobility, the key terms that come to mind are circulation and audience. With the use of technology, circulation has become much more prominent. Writing is able to reach a wider audience than ever before, so people can write things for whatever audience they so choose. Audience is also key, because mobility allows for the general audience to become larger as well. Mobility has changed writing in that it allows it to be circulated around a large audience. However, mobility also points out some things about writing we didn't realize before. I think one example would be how quickly people respond and criticize written works, especially online. Before the Internet, it might take awhile for people to formulate an opinion about a certain work, but now people can share their reactions in a split second. So if someone who to create a new text, people might already criticize it before they have a chance to examine it. As a society, it seems that people feel the need to respond as quickly as possible to a new story or piece of information. This is ineffective because people aren't able to take time and formulate their own opinions on things.
Mobility has become an extremely important part of writing as it now allows one to read and find information at the touch of a button. Molz uses traveling as a way to describe mobility as travelers from all over are able to share information about their travels with blogs, videos and photos. This information is then shown to their own travel community so other may later use this information to experience the same excursion. Though with the advancement in technology, phones and the Internet allow one to access all the information about something in one place. As Molz described it is easier for one to understand something after seeing it for themselves rather than just reading or hearing about it. Now anyone can see and almost experience any travel just on their phone as with a touch of a button one can see thousands of pictures and videos and find almost all the information they would need. I believe this mobility may have encouraged though a false sense of intellect and experience. As one may be able to find all the information about say, Paris and finds pictures and maps of the city. This person may believe they have a full understanding of the city and all it has to offer but they will not truly understand the city until they go an experience it for themselves. Now this may only count for experiences and travel but the undermining fact that anyone can pull up almost any piece of information or text at the drop of a hat. I believe this mobility has highlighted new, and proper information allowing and at times encouraging more research and eventually full experience and face-to-face interaction. This mobility has also highlighted the facts as websites are now making it easier to find certain information, such as historical, fun or interesting facts. The may display this information in smaller shorter ways such as bullet points so one may get to the facts easier and faster.
I think that because of advances in technology, the increase in mobility has made communication easier, and it has therefore made writing more important to more people than ever before. In the past, it was much easier to disperse a piece of writing to a small audience rather than a large one. Doing something like writing a letter to someone was doable. However, what if someone aspired to connect with a larger audience, like protesting a law or proposing a new idea? Without technology, it was much more difficult to get these ideas out there for other people to know and comment on. With technology today, there are many ways to voice opinions, like creating a website, posting to social media, or creating a video. By using these tools, there is a much greater chance for mobility and circulation. In the past, then, writing was something of importance to those who already had the ability to reach a large audience. Every person could not dream of having this power. Before computers, most writing was published work. Now, with so many people being able to participate with very little restriction, writing varies from tweets, books, comments, articles (which anyone can post on a blog/unverified writing), posts, etc. Therefore, mobility has made writing more important to more people because more and more people are able to participate in what was once only for professional writers. There is a downside to this, however. Although writing has become more important to a greater number of people, the pieces of writing themselves do not have as much importance. Before computers, if something was published, it was valid because it was more than likely written by someone credible. Now, there could be twenty articles all saying something different, and who’s to say which one is correct? Just because something has been shared many, many times, does not make it true. Because of such an increase in writing and online publishing, it has become more difficult to find that “true” source of information. I personally check many different websites when looking up travel information because I am scared that the first few I check will give me inaccurate information about prices. Because so many people make money off of people viewing their websites, they often write things that are distorted truths so that more people will click over to their site and share the post, therefore making it more mobile. Therefore, mobility has made it easier for a lot of people to communicate ideas, however, I think that it has diminished the validity of a lot of writing.
At first thought, it is easy to assume that mobility is similar to circulation as well as spreadability. All three of these terms interact and do similar things, like spread knowledge, circulate information, and more. I liked this article a lot, because it talks about traveling and different places and different people related to the definition of mobility, rather than just going into a deep definition for twenty pages. I think this is a good way to teach the definition of mobility, because it makes the definition easier to grasp. Mobility has changed writing in many ways, being able to go and live in Switzerland for a month, for example, changed my writing completely. You find new things to write about, new people to share it with, more interesting things to write about, such as current events in the cities of Croatia, rather than an article about the bars at FSU. Without mobility, we would not have all of these new experiences to write about. Mobility gives us opportunities, gives us experiences and inspiration, and it gives our writing something it never could have had before. Without mobility, I never would have started a blog for travel, I never would have been able to experience and spread different cultures, or circulate my writing into different places. Having mobility also widens your audience, giving you the chance to meet new people, and with that, the information you share with these new people has a whole new chance to be circulated to tons of different people. The way that I see mobility, is it better expands all of the other definitions we have gone over, because it gives all of these definitions a chance to spread and circulate through many different mediums, (word of mouth, shared articles, etc), to completely new audiences, and completely new places. I think that mobility would change the maps we created, as well as expand all of our other definitions.
Mobility has become a vital factor for writers. With today’s technological advances, I have noticed that mobility (like mobile apps) has made the world more accessible. With technologies and mediums such as iPad’s and cellphones that download these mobile applications, allow information to be retrieved or posted at almost anytime. It creates a convenience that didn’t exist before our technological era. It creates this urgency. Going mobile has the potential to retrieve a response from our audience within seconds. That is just how technology works these days. But most importantly, with all these new apps that are going mobile through technological tablets and outlets, produce a source of circulation that spread ideas, news, pictures, ect. It seems that our society progresses with our progressive technology, and mobility will only continue to move forward as a medium. One example that comes to mind is the iphone 4 (which I have at the moment). Yes, its new aged technology, but compared to the 2016 iphone 6, its obsolete. Certain mobile apps cannot download on the iphone 4 software, forcing apple customers to purchase the next best thing. Here, audience, circulation mobility, urgency, and accessibility are being utilized.
The idea that mobility has the ability to enhance writing is an interesting concept. It makes a lot of sense though when you really think about. Not to say that people who never really leave their own little corner of the world have less knowledge than those who travel, but it just goes without saying that people who travel have a different type of knowledge. In the modern age, it takes pretty minimal effort to travel - especially when it comes to travel within places like the United States where residents have free reign of the land and, because of that, they can easily go about and seek that new knowledge themselves. Different areas all have their own unique cultures and nomadic people who are able to go about and visit those different locations and learn about the people who live there are able to soak up the best of all of those cultures. The enhanced mobility that is available today is able to be highlighted through the use of the internet which allows for collaboration. The idea of message boards allowing for people to interact and share their different experiences with travel is an example of one of the many benefits that are brought about by the evolution of technology. With the technology of message boards and forums, it allows for people to see what other people are thinking almost instantly. This mobility isn’t necessarily specific to the travel community as it can be used to refer to almost anything happening in the world right now. Without the need to travel, information is available at our fingertips with no travel needed. These days, all you have to do is open up an internet browser and search whatever it is you’re curious about and there are thousands of results that share the world views and interpretations of countless people from different areas who have different perspectives based on where they are from and how they live. This new level of connectivity that is available due to the internet is making it so that no group of people is ever really isolated from having a broader worldview and understanding situations from the perspective of people who they would otherwise have no real means to ever come into contact with. Nowadays, we use this enhanced connectivity of the internet to discuss an unlimited number of topics whether it be for educational purposes or simply for our individual entertainment. Through this, writing is improved as it easier for individuals to conduct their own research and still produce relatable content that has the ability to be spread throughout the world and lead to even more responses.
I personally think mobility can go hand in hand with spreadability. Because of this, I think mobility effect writing in a similar way. Mobility has added more platforms and accessibility for writers and readers as well. Due to mobility, readers can now see what would normally be on paper, on ipads, smartphones, social media, etc.. The list really does go on and on. Just this is something I never really noticed before. Mobility is something that has completely surpassed my mind, I never came to think just how effective it is for writing. I come across so many quotes, small pieces, sometimes articles online, and mobility is really what is responsible for that.
When I think of mobility in relation to writing I can’t help but think about my daily life and my regular use of mobile electronic devices such as laptops and phones. The concept of mobility has helped writing become more accessible to audiences throughout the world. Nowadays, most people have smart phones like Iphones or Galaxy Notes that are capable of browsing the internet and reading e-books. If you were ever curious what other movies that one familiar looking guy in the movie you’re currently watching has been in, all you have to do is open your phone and google it. Settling a bet on information that isn’t firsthand knowledge? Google it. Mobility streamlines the circulatory processes of online writing and increases the accessibility tenfold. As an example, this past summer I read all 5 books in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire due to my interest in the television adaptation Game of Thrones. I possessed the first book and borrowed the second from a co-worker, but by the time I got to the third book, my co-worker was still reading his copy. Impatiently, I found on online PDF of A Storm of Swords and began to read it on my phone, and would switch to reading it on my laptop after work. In this day and age our dependence on technology has caused us to lack patience. We are constantly craving new things, and when we get those things we consume until we must wait for the next thing. Take it from me, who was guilty of binge-watching 13 episodes of Bojack Horseman on Netflix the day the season came out. Because of this, I feel that it is important to consider the implications of mobility and how it may warp our society’s perceptions of patience.
Mobility has almost become an essential part to writing these days. When we take into account the amount of texts that are on an electronic source that is quite literally one click away from send it to a friend or showing the world, mobility is priceless. As an avid newsreader, I haven't once ever read from an newspaper. I get all of my news from this app that puts together the top news stories from the best media outlets out there. I'll be reading a Washington Post article and then the next might be Time or The New Yorker or even Vice. This would be nearly impossible if we were still living in a paper based world. The amount of money I would have to shell out to read from all these sources would be tremendous and would not be worth the weight in paper. Unfortunately, I also believe mobility has hurt writers and journalists. The faster something comes out, the higher viewership you might garner so it is sometimes in the best interest to pump out a shitty article that has all the information rather than a well written, edited piece of work. This has been a big problem for newspaper companies because of the online news outlets. These newspapers aren't getting the story out there fast enough AND they are charging people to get the news. As I said before, I can just go on this app for free and see just about everything I need to know that is going on in this world. Some of these newspapers don't have the funds to hire and support good journalists anymore and have had to convert to an online news source. Improved mobility with text has enhanced life in many ways but also it has hurt certain sectors. I love being able to sit down and watch ten or twenty or thirty youtube videos about stupid things. I love being able to read about the opioid crisis causing a rise in heroin sales and then turn to an article about 'How To Cook The Best Pumpkin Cookies'. But I hate to see these sectors that have been a part of this country for centuries be gutted within a few decades.
The mobility of writing has remarkably flourished over the past few generations thanks to the thriving growth of technological advances. I can remember my grandmother showing me letters she had produced using her typewriter to communicate with my grandfather while he was serving in the military. Not only did it have to be perfectly typed which took patients and time, but beyond that in order to get her letter received and read by my grandfather it had to be mailed and sometimes took weeks to be received. Today I can email, text, or Skype dear friends across the sea at the touch of a button. With the expansion of technology, communication has expanded in all ways including writing. In reading Molz, she highlights the idea of travelers interacting with others by blogging where they have visited. She says, “…mobilities and mobilizing research techniques are ‘not just about how people make knowledge of the world, but how they physically and socially made the world through the ways they move and mobilize people, objects, information and ideas’”(88). For example, if I were to visit Paris and post a photo on instagram including stories of my travels to share with others. All of my friends in the United States would see the “…relationship between mobility, technology, and knowledge”(89) in my post. Sharing my post of visiting the Effie Tower could be a means of connecting with others through a monumental object, which Molz refers to as “a means of sharing knowledge as proof or technological know-how” (93). Mobility as a whole elaborates on almost every topic of conversation we have discussed because it further expands and circulates each one through various terms of various mediums. Through mobilization writing has improved because people can read your works, learn from your works, and even respond to your works. The more knowledge that is out there for others to perceive the quicker we will find various truths.
As your classic millennial wanderlust 20-year-old, mobility has played a huge role in writing in my life and allows me to connect on a personal level to this excerpt from Molz. The notion that traveling easily motivates thought and eventually writing as well. Mobility and the ability to travel has lead to so much circulation of thoughts, people and collaboration. The experiences that travelers are able to share, visualize and observe are so crucial in inspiring thoughts and inventing writing. So many compositions are born because of travel. In my time studying abroad in Valencia, Spain I took my first EWM class, “What is a Text?” and that experience provided the perfect environment for reflection. My teacher provided experiences for us where we were able to observe the culture, be a part of it, compare it and appreciate it. There were so many simple field trips to places like the grocery store and on the bus routes. Those simple adventures in an entirely different country lead to an automatic influx of questions, thoughts, confusion, excitement and so on. Thanks to mobility and the power of things like blog posts, snapchat stories and Instagram photos I am able to read about these things because other people had the chance to travel to these places before I was. The beauty of circulation, technology and mobility working hand in hand allowed me to get an idea of where I was going in Europe. But, without my personal experience, the same thoughts would have never been provoked. With my Spanish classes, I have researched information provided by mobility, on Latin America and Spain but, there are so many things I would have never thought to look up because I would not know of their existence without my own personal ability to travel and be mobile. Mobility highlights a part of our lives that is integral to thought production. From a simple walk across the street to an experience another country for six weeks. The moments I spend in the act of traveling provide enough silence, observation and experience to open an entirely knew realm of writing. My walks to work are my primary reflection time every single day. Although we are doing something it is not like watching a tv show or playing a game on the internet. The act of actually traveling does not take much brain power and leaves so much space for our brains to run and create a whole new world.
Because of the overall advance in technology mobility is a term that has become increasingly more relevant. While in even in writing's earliest advances, technologies such as the printing press were the most remarkable invention. The newspaper allowed individuals to physically carry the ideas and content and share it with others. However, how writing is integrated in technology today is exponentially even more interactive. We can access writing in multiple medias digitally through our computers and cell phones that we carry with us place to place every day. This is just an example of how it allows us to have easier access to rediscovering and sharing writing in our everyday lives. Through the internet so many different texts are at our disposal with just a click of a button, whether we're sitting on our couch at home, in class, or even thousands of miles above the ground in an airplane. Mobility is a factor many individuals consider in that the average person's life is extremely mobile, and technology allows us to always be on the move, active. Mobility increases audience, circulation, and has become an essential aspect of the electronic world that has been created before us and is leading us into the future.
Through the flourishing expansion of knowledge and development of technologies over the course of time, the ability for writing to move freely and easily across different platforms has strengthened drastically. For example, the ever-evolving state of the telecommunication. Its' most basic form, the telegraph, allowed people to communicate through transmitting electric signals and using Morse Code, which changed how newspapers and journalists conducted their business. 1876 brought the development of the "speaking telegraph" or otherwise known as the telephone, which converted sound into electric waves that could travel long distances via transmission media. People could actually have an audible conversation with each other, even if they were across the country! This innovation allowed communication to become dramatically easier, encouraging the people to share their ideas and beliefs with those willing to listen. Telephones remained land-line based until 1973, when Martin Cooper publicized a prototype of the first hand-held cellular phone that made communication accessible via wireless transmission. The development of the cell phone just in itself has sky rocketed over the course of the last 40 years, creating a plethora of different platforms for people to communicate, especially through the act of writing. People use apps like Facebook and Twitter to express their ideas, beliefs, and opinions across the planet at the touch of a button. The ease of access has instilled a motivation within people to express how they feel, and make their voice heard, which can be exhibited through situations such as the most recent election.
Mobility has changed writing in various ways. In the past decade, writing has been made available to essentially anyone. Pieces of writing are being shared on the internet through multiple social media platforms. If you write something, you can publish it on a blog of your own or submit it to a website, some for review and some for instant publication. You can then share it on your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc.. This gives your friends a chance to see your writing along with the opportunity to share it to all of their friends. Your piece is getting circulated to exponentially growing audiences, but this circulation wouldn’t be possible without the mobility of the article being so efficient. Your writing can travel across thousands of miles in a mere second. Before this boost by technology, the process of spreading your writing took a lot longer. Today, you can instantly share your writing with anyone with access to the internet in the world. It has also changed writing in the sense that what we read can now always be physically mobile. We’re constantly on our phones throughout the entire day, and now you can read your friend’s post and share their writing (as well as them sharing yours) any time of the day, wherever you may be. It is not limited to Facebook posts and blog posts - textbooks, breaking news, children’s books magazines, virtually any rhetoric can be shared digitally, anywhere in the world. Mobility has taken away the constraint of geological space. Now, you don’t have to travel around the world to find out current events of different countries. Messages between each other are now instant as well, thanks to mobility. Not too long ago, people from many distances would have to write to each other in order to talk. We’d have to wait days just to hear from an old friend or a distant relative. Today, all we have to do is pick up our phones. A text takes three seconds as opposed to 5-7 business days. Phone calls are replacing face to face interactions for love ones far away. Mobility has changed the spreadability, circulation, and range of audience in writing.
Mobility has changed writing in various ways. In the past decade, writing has been made available to essentially anyone. Pieces of writing are being shared on the internet through multiple social media platforms. If you write something, you can publish it on a blog of your own or submit it to a website, some for review and some for instant publication. You can then share it on your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc.. This gives your friends a chance to see your writing along with the opportunity to share it to all of their friends. Your piece is getting circulated to exponentially growing audiences, but this circulation wouldn’t be possible without the mobility of the article being so efficient. Your writing can travel across thousands of miles in a mere second. Before this boost by technology, the process of spreading your writing took a lot longer. Today, you can instantly share your writing with anyone with access to the internet in the world. It has also changed writing in the sense that what we read can now always be physically mobile. We’re constantly on our phones throughout the entire day, and now you can read your friend’s post and share their writing (as well as them sharing yours) any time of the day, wherever you may be. It is not limited to Facebook posts and blog posts - textbooks, breaking news, children’s books magazines, virtually any rhetoric can be shared digitally, anywhere in the world. Mobility has taken away the constraint of geological space. Now, you don’t have to travel around the world to find out current events of different countries. Messages between each other are now instant as well, thanks to mobility. Not too long ago, people from many distances would have to write to each other in order to talk. We’d have to wait days just to hear from an old friend or a distant relative. Today, all we have to do is pick up our phones. A text takes three seconds as opposed to 5-7 business days. Phone calls are replacing face to face interactions for love ones far away. Mobility has changed the spreadability, circulation, and range of audience in writing.
It was honestly hard to differentiate the ideas of circulation and mobility from each other. But then I kept reading and figured out that mobility, in terms of technology, deals with a more physical force than circulation, dealing with how far things can travel or who they can reach to according to actual land and the way that the writing is seen. Molz spoke about how traveling involved using technologies to "create on the road know-how", and it honestly made me think of a language conversion application. I cannot name names, but there is a certain application that is almost like a Snapchat filter, where you hold your camera over a sign in another language or even a menu and it translates the words into your native language to help you go through the new country. This sort of technology has encouraged mobility, but also has encourages controversy in that people were arguing that such a technology was making learning and writing languages obsolete since you could just look at what you want to see rather than actually learn or study it. I think that this highlights how mobility does inspire innovation, but it also does indeed sort of encourage a sort of, for lack of a better term, laziness and a need for quick convenience. Even Molz spoke about how understanding the world was much easier when it was seen rather than just heard about, so there was a need for understanding at a greater level than some others weren't probably able to achieve. Mobility makes me realize that convenience and a need for understanding said material is usually the priority, but then it did also get me thinking about how this technology somewhat isolated other people who may have wanted to learn as well. Not everyone has iphones or access to such technology, so this risk of alienation makes writing almost like a privilege rather than a right. And what about translations? There are books and texts out there that are written in other languages and dialects that could take years to study for, yet our technology and greater education compared to the past (at least for people who can afford it) has enabled books from all across the globe to be shipped over to us in translated texts so that everyone can enjoy it and learn from the different cultures. Mobility then has changed writing in that now everyone must be considered, not just people within one country, but realizing that one powerful bit of text can reach across the planet and inspire others, this makes writers realize that with writing comes heavy responsibility. Not only that, but technology has increased mobility, with the usage of laptops and mobile phones and such, and because of this technology thriving, the tech itself has also spread across the globe just as much as books have, if not even more since the world is so digital now. This has enabled underdeveloped countries to be granted more access to even more writing and knowledge and understanding of the world and its cultures, both in beneficial ways and sadly, in harmful ways as well, as all things usually do.
ReplyDeleteMobility as it is defined in writing shares many similarities with circulation, and is closely intertwined with audience and accessibility. Mobility has much to do with spatial and geographic space, and how writing can physically travel across land and sea to spread among readers. In the past, this mobility was dependent upon messengers on horseback, which was a slow and unreliable method. Many of this mobility today is made better by the advancement of technology that makes our world seem just a little bit smaller and just a little bit less lonely. In a sense, technology gives us the ability to instantly cross oceans without actually moving a muscle, and allows the spread of information and ideas through writing. Cell phones, for example, are such a large presence in our lives that greatly enhances mobility. Now, people don’t have to hop on planes, trains, and automobiles in order to speak to their friends and families that live far away. Mobile phones lessen the spatial distance between people, and the same can be said with writing. Smart phones, laptops, and anything else with easy access to the Internet, allow geography to be less significant a factor in communication through writing. It is so much easier to call your mother who lives in Kentucky then to wait to speak to her until you fly home for Christmas. Even for people without this technology, can gain access to writing through the mobility of physical text, such as in the form of books. A book contains a selection of writing that is stored between two covers pages, and can then be moved as a whole unit. Books can travel through transportation vehicles to cross space, or they can even be spread through the Internet. This mobility allows knowledge and thinking to be spread even to places where laptops and smartphones aren’t commonplace, such as in 3rd world countries in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America. With the advancement of technology the mobility of text has greatly increased, and now more people can have access to new knowledge and ideas.
ReplyDeleteThe author mentions in the article that mobility has changed writing because now it serves the purpose of spreading knowledge. However, knowledge when it comes to mobility has changed from what it used to be. Before, travelling was viewed as more for scientific discovery; however, nowadays we travel for leisure as a tourist. We see mobility, or travelling, as a kind of spiritual journey where we are supposed to discover something about ourselves. Now that we have mediums like social media, people who travel want to share the knowledge they have collected, so they share their experiences and pictures with their friends and family. There are now travel forums and blogs online where people can share their experience from the place they travelled to so that other people who want to travel to that location in the future can have some advice before they go. I think that social media has really changed mobility because people want to read the experiences of others who have already travelled to where they are planning to go so that they can have the best experience. For example, before I decided to go to Paris this past summer, I looked on Pinterest for inspiration on what cafes I should go to. Someone had posted a picture and summary of a beautiful little Parisian café near Notre Dame. When I read the fantastic experience she had eating there, I decided to check it out myself and I ended up loving it. It is impossible to be aware of all the beautiful cafes in Paris and without that girl writing about her experience, I would have never known about it. Therefore, I think that mobility has changed writing because it’s near impossible not to learn something when your travelling and people want to share their new knowledge with the world through writing. One of the other common ways we gain knowledge is through school or education; however, usually students don’t care enough to write about what they’re learning in class unless they’re required to. Therefore, mobility is one of the most popular ways with which people are gaining knowledge that they want to share with others. The more people travel and move around, the more experiences they gather and ultimately the more they want to write about it.
ReplyDeleteEspecially during these modern times, with so much improved digital technology and innovations that are constantly being made, mobility greatly influences writing and how we interact with people’s writing. Writing used to be stationary. If it were mobile, it was because someone brought a book somewhere with them, or a newspaper, magazine, etc. Now, we have devices that carry information with us and can pull information from the internet and cater it to us within seconds. We interact with people’s writing wherever we are and writing can reach anyone, basically anywhere. This greatly impacts the potential of messages and news. Molz says in her Article that “interactive travel is implicated in a broader paradigm constituted by the relationship between mobility, technology, and knowledge” (89). Technology makes writing mobile, which easily makes knowledge very spreadable. I think this mobility has changed writing because it very much changes how people think about what they’re going to put out into the world because there’s also so much more room now for personal opinion and for those opinions to be posted. People get scared of differing views and being shut down, so they might not post something they would if it didn’t have that much of a change of reaching a lot of people.
ReplyDeleteI find the concept of travel blogs in Molz’s article very interesting too. She says that when travelers began posting things on their blogs, the content and writing was praised, but also the technical accomplishment. This technicality gives way to connectivity. She explains how connectivity is an object of knowledge- it is “a means of sharing knowledge and as proof of technological know-how” (93). Although connectivity has become less remarkable, as she notes, I do think it still holds major importance when it comes to studying how mobility affects writing. Connectivity leads to collaboration. People can add to ideas and discuss them on a public, online platform, which in turn leads to new knowledge. Without the influences of other people and the input from other people, some knowledge may not even occur. I think this is very relevant to what Molz has to say about the relationship between knowledge and the social realm and that “the production of knowledge is always social” (97). This is because knowledge cannot be conceived independently of the communication network that comes from multiple subjects.
Mobility has greatly impacted writing and changed the way writing works and what it is capable of because of how it connects people and gives way to new knowledge.
More so than ever before, mobility has become a large factor in the process of writing. With the age of technology that we live in, most things are becoming mobile. Our phones contain almost everything we need to gain information about anything we want. All a person has to do is go on Google for five seconds and they can find the answer to anything they want. Also, we can write and publish things at a touch of a button. If we feel the need to share thoughts and information with someone, we can simply send a text message or post it on social media. This is far different from the era before technology existed. People were not able to reach as wide of an audience before the Internet existed. When discussing mobility, the key terms that come to mind are circulation and audience. With the use of technology, circulation has become much more prominent. Writing is able to reach a wider audience than ever before, so people can write things for whatever audience they so choose. Audience is also key, because mobility allows for the general audience to become larger as well.
ReplyDeleteMobility has changed writing in that it allows it to be circulated around a large audience. However, mobility also points out some things about writing we didn't realize before. I think one example would be how quickly people respond and criticize written works, especially online. Before the Internet, it might take awhile for people to formulate an opinion about a certain work, but now people can share their reactions in a split second. So if someone who to create a new text, people might already criticize it before they have a chance to examine it. As a society, it seems that people feel the need to respond as quickly as possible to a new story or piece of information. This is ineffective because people aren't able to take time and formulate their own opinions on things.
Mobility has become an extremely important part of writing as it now allows one to read and find information at the touch of a button. Molz uses traveling as a way to describe mobility as travelers from all over are able to share information about their travels with blogs, videos and photos. This information is then shown to their own travel community so other may later use this information to experience the same excursion. Though with the advancement in technology, phones and the Internet allow one to access all the information about something in one place. As Molz described it is easier for one to understand something after seeing it for themselves rather than just reading or hearing about it. Now anyone can see and almost experience any travel just on their phone as with a touch of a button one can see thousands of pictures and videos and find almost all the information they would need. I believe this mobility may have encouraged though a false sense of intellect and experience. As one may be able to find all the information about say, Paris and finds pictures and maps of the city. This person may believe they have a full understanding of the city and all it has to offer but they will not truly understand the city until they go an experience it for themselves. Now this may only count for experiences and travel but the undermining fact that anyone can pull up almost any piece of information or text at the drop of a hat. I believe this mobility has highlighted new, and proper information allowing and at times encouraging more research and eventually full experience and face-to-face interaction. This mobility has also highlighted the facts as websites are now making it easier to find certain information, such as historical, fun or interesting facts. The may display this information in smaller shorter ways such as bullet points so one may get to the facts easier and faster.
ReplyDeleteI think that because of advances in technology, the increase in mobility has made communication easier, and it has therefore made writing more important to more people than ever before. In the past, it was much easier to disperse a piece of writing to a small audience rather than a large one. Doing something like writing a letter to someone was doable. However, what if someone aspired to connect with a larger audience, like protesting a law or proposing a new idea? Without technology, it was much more difficult to get these ideas out there for other people to know and comment on. With technology today, there are many ways to voice opinions, like creating a website, posting to social media, or creating a video. By using these tools, there is a much greater chance for mobility and circulation. In the past, then, writing was something of importance to those who already had the ability to reach a large audience. Every person could not dream of having this power. Before computers, most writing was published work. Now, with so many people being able to participate with very little restriction, writing varies from tweets, books, comments, articles (which anyone can post on a blog/unverified writing), posts, etc. Therefore, mobility has made writing more important to more people because more and more people are able to participate in what was once only for professional writers. There is a downside to this, however. Although writing has become more important to a greater number of people, the pieces of writing themselves do not have as much importance. Before computers, if something was published, it was valid because it was more than likely written by someone credible. Now, there could be twenty articles all saying something different, and who’s to say which one is correct? Just because something has been shared many, many times, does not make it true. Because of such an increase in writing and online publishing, it has become more difficult to find that “true” source of information. I personally check many different websites when looking up travel information because I am scared that the first few I check will give me inaccurate information about prices. Because so many people make money off of people viewing their websites, they often write things that are distorted truths so that more people will click over to their site and share the post, therefore making it more mobile. Therefore, mobility has made it easier for a lot of people to communicate ideas, however, I think that it has diminished the validity of a lot of writing.
ReplyDeleteAt first thought, it is easy to assume that mobility is similar to circulation as well as spreadability. All three of these terms interact and do similar things, like spread knowledge, circulate information, and more. I liked this article a lot, because it talks about traveling and different places and different people related to the definition of mobility, rather than just going into a deep definition for twenty pages. I think this is a good way to teach the definition of mobility, because it makes the definition easier to grasp. Mobility has changed writing in many ways, being able to go and live in Switzerland for a month, for example, changed my writing completely. You find new things to write about, new people to share it with, more interesting things to write about, such as current events in the cities of Croatia, rather than an article about the bars at FSU. Without mobility, we would not have all of these new experiences to write about. Mobility gives us opportunities, gives us experiences and inspiration, and it gives our writing something it never could have had before. Without mobility, I never would have started a blog for travel, I never would have been able to experience and spread different cultures, or circulate my writing into different places. Having mobility also widens your audience, giving you the chance to meet new people, and with that, the information you share with these new people has a whole new chance to be circulated to tons of different people. The way that I see mobility, is it better expands all of the other definitions we have gone over, because it gives all of these definitions a chance to spread and circulate through many different mediums, (word of mouth, shared articles, etc), to completely new audiences, and completely new places. I think that mobility would change the maps we created, as well as expand all of our other definitions.
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ReplyDeleteMobility has become a vital factor for writers. With today’s technological advances, I have noticed that mobility (like mobile apps) has made the world more accessible. With technologies and mediums such as iPad’s and cellphones that download these mobile applications, allow information to be retrieved or posted at almost anytime. It creates a convenience that didn’t exist before our technological era. It creates this urgency. Going mobile has the potential to retrieve a response from our audience within seconds. That is just how technology works these days.
ReplyDeleteBut most importantly, with all these new apps that are going mobile through technological tablets and outlets, produce a source of circulation that spread ideas, news, pictures, ect. It seems that our society progresses with our progressive technology, and mobility will only continue to move forward as a medium. One example that comes to mind is the iphone 4 (which I have at the moment). Yes, its new aged technology, but compared to the 2016 iphone 6, its obsolete. Certain mobile apps cannot download on the iphone 4 software, forcing apple customers to purchase the next best thing. Here, audience, circulation mobility, urgency, and accessibility are being utilized.
The idea that mobility has the ability to enhance writing is an interesting concept. It makes a lot of sense though when you really think about. Not to say that people who never really leave their own little corner of the world have less knowledge than those who travel, but it just goes without saying that people who travel have a different type of knowledge. In the modern age, it takes pretty minimal effort to travel - especially when it comes to travel within places like the United States where residents have free reign of the land and, because of that, they can easily go about and seek that new knowledge themselves. Different areas all have their own unique cultures and nomadic people who are able to go about and visit those different locations and learn about the people who live there are able to soak up the best of all of those cultures. The enhanced mobility that is available today is able to be highlighted through the use of the internet which allows for collaboration. The idea of message boards allowing for people to interact and share their different experiences with travel is an example of one of the many benefits that are brought about by the evolution of technology. With the technology of message boards and forums, it allows for people to see what other people are thinking almost instantly. This mobility isn’t necessarily specific to the travel community as it can be used to refer to almost anything happening in the world right now. Without the need to travel, information is available at our fingertips with no travel needed. These days, all you have to do is open up an internet browser and search whatever it is you’re curious about and there are thousands of results that share the world views and interpretations of countless people from different areas who have different perspectives based on where they are from and how they live. This new level of connectivity that is available due to the internet is making it so that no group of people is ever really isolated from having a broader worldview and understanding situations from the perspective of people who they would otherwise have no real means to ever come into contact with. Nowadays, we use this enhanced connectivity of the internet to discuss an unlimited number of topics whether it be for educational purposes or simply for our individual entertainment. Through this, writing is improved as it easier for individuals to conduct their own research and still produce relatable content that has the ability to be spread throughout the world and lead to even more responses.
ReplyDeleteI personally think mobility can go hand in hand with spreadability. Because of this, I think mobility effect writing in a similar way. Mobility has added more platforms and accessibility for writers and readers as well. Due to mobility, readers can now see what would normally be on paper, on ipads, smartphones, social media, etc.. The list really does go on and on. Just this is something I never really noticed before. Mobility is something that has completely surpassed my mind, I never came to think just how effective it is for writing. I come across so many quotes, small pieces, sometimes articles online, and mobility is really what is responsible for that.
ReplyDeleteWhen I think of mobility in relation to writing I can’t help but think about my daily life and my regular use of mobile electronic devices such as laptops and phones. The concept of mobility has helped writing become more accessible to audiences throughout the world. Nowadays, most people have smart phones like Iphones or Galaxy Notes that are capable of browsing the internet and reading e-books. If you were ever curious what other movies that one familiar looking guy in the movie you’re currently watching has been in, all you have to do is open your phone and google it. Settling a bet on information that isn’t firsthand knowledge? Google it. Mobility streamlines the circulatory processes of online writing and increases the accessibility tenfold. As an example, this past summer I read all 5 books in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire due to my interest in the television adaptation Game of Thrones. I possessed the first book and borrowed the second from a co-worker, but by the time I got to the third book, my co-worker was still reading his copy. Impatiently, I found on online PDF of A Storm of Swords and began to read it on my phone, and would switch to reading it on my laptop after work. In this day and age our dependence on technology has caused us to lack patience. We are constantly craving new things, and when we get those things we consume until we must wait for the next thing. Take it from me, who was guilty of binge-watching 13 episodes of Bojack Horseman on Netflix the day the season came out. Because of this, I feel that it is important to consider the implications of mobility and how it may warp our society’s perceptions of patience.
ReplyDeleteMobility has almost become an essential part to writing these days. When we take into account the amount of texts that are on an electronic source that is quite literally one click away from send it to a friend or showing the world, mobility is priceless. As an avid newsreader, I haven't once ever read from an newspaper. I get all of my news from this app that puts together the top news stories from the best media outlets out there. I'll be reading a Washington Post article and then the next might be Time or The New Yorker or even Vice. This would be nearly impossible if we were still living in a paper based world. The amount of money I would have to shell out to read from all these sources would be tremendous and would not be worth the weight in paper.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I also believe mobility has hurt writers and journalists. The faster something comes out, the higher viewership you might garner so it is sometimes in the best interest to pump out a shitty article that has all the information rather than a well written, edited piece of work. This has been a big problem for newspaper companies because of the online news outlets. These newspapers aren't getting the story out there fast enough AND they are charging people to get the news. As I said before, I can just go on this app for free and see just about everything I need to know that is going on in this world. Some of these newspapers don't have the funds to hire and support good journalists anymore and have had to convert to an online news source.
Improved mobility with text has enhanced life in many ways but also it has hurt certain sectors. I love being able to sit down and watch ten or twenty or thirty youtube videos about stupid things. I love being able to read about the opioid crisis causing a rise in heroin sales and then turn to an article about 'How To Cook The Best Pumpkin Cookies'. But I hate to see these sectors that have been a part of this country for centuries be gutted within a few decades.
The mobility of writing has remarkably flourished over the past few generations thanks to the thriving growth of technological advances. I can remember my grandmother showing me letters she had produced using her typewriter to communicate with my grandfather while he was serving in the military. Not only did it have to be perfectly typed which took patients and time, but beyond that in order to get her letter received and read by my grandfather it had to be mailed and sometimes took weeks to be received. Today I can email, text, or Skype dear friends across the sea at the touch of a button. With the expansion of technology, communication has expanded in all ways including writing. In reading Molz, she highlights the idea of travelers interacting with others by blogging where they have visited. She says, “…mobilities and mobilizing research techniques are ‘not just about how people make knowledge of the world, but how they physically and socially made the world through the ways they move and mobilize people, objects, information and ideas’”(88). For example, if I were to visit Paris and post a photo on instagram including stories of my travels to share with others. All of my friends in the United States would see the “…relationship between mobility, technology, and knowledge”(89) in my post. Sharing my post of visiting the Effie Tower could be a means of connecting with others through a monumental object, which Molz refers to as “a means of sharing knowledge as proof or technological know-how” (93). Mobility as a whole elaborates on almost every topic of conversation we have discussed because it further expands and circulates each one through various terms of various mediums. Through mobilization writing has improved because people can read your works, learn from your works, and even respond to your works. The more knowledge that is out there for others to perceive the quicker we will find various truths.
ReplyDeleteAs your classic millennial wanderlust 20-year-old, mobility has played a huge role in writing in my life and allows me to connect on a personal level to this excerpt from Molz. The notion that traveling easily motivates thought and eventually writing as well. Mobility and the ability to travel has lead to so much circulation of thoughts, people and collaboration. The experiences that travelers are able to share, visualize and observe are so crucial in inspiring thoughts and inventing writing. So many compositions are born because of travel. In my time studying abroad in Valencia, Spain I took my first EWM class, “What is a Text?” and that experience provided the perfect environment for reflection. My teacher provided experiences for us where we were able to observe the culture, be a part of it, compare it and appreciate it. There were so many simple field trips to places like the grocery store and on the bus routes. Those simple adventures in an entirely different country lead to an automatic influx of questions, thoughts, confusion, excitement and so on. Thanks to mobility and the power of things like blog posts, snapchat stories and Instagram photos I am able to read about these things because other people had the chance to travel to these places before I was. The beauty of circulation, technology and mobility working hand in hand allowed me to get an idea of where I was going in Europe. But, without my personal experience, the same thoughts would have never been provoked. With my Spanish classes, I have researched information provided by mobility, on Latin America and Spain but, there are so many things I would have never thought to look up because I would not know of their existence without my own personal ability to travel and be mobile. Mobility highlights a part of our lives that is integral to thought production. From a simple walk across the street to an experience another country for six weeks. The moments I spend in the act of traveling provide enough silence, observation and experience to open an entirely knew realm of writing. My walks to work are my primary reflection time every single day. Although we are doing something it is not like watching a tv show or playing a game on the internet. The act of actually traveling does not take much brain power and leaves so much space for our brains to run and create a whole new world.
ReplyDeleteBecause of the overall advance in technology mobility is a term that has become increasingly more relevant. While in even in writing's earliest advances, technologies such as the printing press were the most remarkable invention. The newspaper allowed individuals to physically carry the ideas and content and share it with others. However, how writing is integrated in technology today is exponentially even more interactive. We can access writing in multiple medias digitally through our computers and cell phones that we carry with us place to place every day. This is just an example of how it allows us to have easier access to rediscovering and sharing writing in our everyday lives. Through the internet so many different texts are at our disposal with just a click of a button, whether we're sitting on our couch at home, in class, or even thousands of miles above the ground in an airplane. Mobility is a factor many individuals consider in that the average person's life is extremely mobile, and technology allows us to always be on the move, active. Mobility increases audience, circulation, and has become an essential aspect of the electronic world that has been created before us and is leading us into the future.
ReplyDeleteThrough the flourishing expansion of knowledge and development of technologies over the course of time, the ability for writing to move freely and easily across different platforms has strengthened drastically. For example, the ever-evolving state of the telecommunication. Its' most basic form, the telegraph, allowed people to communicate through transmitting electric signals and using Morse Code, which changed how newspapers and journalists conducted their business. 1876 brought the development of the "speaking telegraph" or otherwise known as the telephone, which converted sound into electric waves that could travel long distances via transmission media. People could actually have an audible conversation with each other, even if they were across the country! This innovation allowed communication to become dramatically easier, encouraging the people to share their ideas and beliefs with those willing to listen. Telephones remained land-line based until 1973, when Martin Cooper publicized a prototype of the first hand-held cellular phone that made communication accessible via wireless transmission. The development of the cell phone just in itself has sky rocketed over the course of the last 40 years, creating a plethora of different platforms for people to communicate, especially through the act of writing. People use apps like Facebook and Twitter to express their ideas, beliefs, and opinions across the planet at the touch of a button. The ease of access has instilled a motivation within people to express how they feel, and make their voice heard, which can be exhibited through situations such as the most recent election.
ReplyDeleteMobility has changed writing in various ways. In the past decade, writing has been made available to essentially anyone. Pieces of writing are being shared on the internet through multiple social media platforms. If you write something, you can publish it on a blog of your own or submit it to a website, some for review and some for instant publication. You can then share it on your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc.. This gives your friends a chance to see your writing along with the opportunity to share it to all of their friends. Your piece is getting circulated to exponentially growing audiences, but this circulation wouldn’t be possible without the mobility of the article being so efficient. Your writing can travel across thousands of miles in a mere second. Before this boost by technology, the process of spreading your writing took a lot longer. Today, you can instantly share your writing with anyone with access to the internet in the world. It has also changed writing in the sense that what we read can now always be physically mobile. We’re constantly on our phones throughout the entire day, and now you can read your friend’s post and share their writing (as well as them sharing yours) any time of the day, wherever you may be. It is not limited to Facebook posts and blog posts - textbooks, breaking news, children’s books magazines, virtually any rhetoric can be shared digitally, anywhere in the world. Mobility has taken away the constraint of geological space. Now, you don’t have to travel around the world to find out current events of different countries. Messages between each other are now instant as well, thanks to mobility. Not too long ago, people from many distances would have to write to each other in order to talk. We’d have to wait days just to hear from an old friend or a distant relative. Today, all we have to do is pick up our phones. A text takes three seconds as opposed to 5-7 business days. Phone calls are replacing face to face interactions for love ones far away. Mobility has changed the spreadability, circulation, and range of audience in writing.
ReplyDeleteMobility has changed writing in various ways. In the past decade, writing has been made available to essentially anyone. Pieces of writing are being shared on the internet through multiple social media platforms. If you write something, you can publish it on a blog of your own or submit it to a website, some for review and some for instant publication. You can then share it on your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc.. This gives your friends a chance to see your writing along with the opportunity to share it to all of their friends. Your piece is getting circulated to exponentially growing audiences, but this circulation wouldn’t be possible without the mobility of the article being so efficient. Your writing can travel across thousands of miles in a mere second. Before this boost by technology, the process of spreading your writing took a lot longer. Today, you can instantly share your writing with anyone with access to the internet in the world. It has also changed writing in the sense that what we read can now always be physically mobile. We’re constantly on our phones throughout the entire day, and now you can read your friend’s post and share their writing (as well as them sharing yours) any time of the day, wherever you may be. It is not limited to Facebook posts and blog posts - textbooks, breaking news, children’s books magazines, virtually any rhetoric can be shared digitally, anywhere in the world. Mobility has taken away the constraint of geological space. Now, you don’t have to travel around the world to find out current events of different countries. Messages between each other are now instant as well, thanks to mobility. Not too long ago, people from many distances would have to write to each other in order to talk. We’d have to wait days just to hear from an old friend or a distant relative. Today, all we have to do is pick up our phones. A text takes three seconds as opposed to 5-7 business days. Phone calls are replacing face to face interactions for love ones far away. Mobility has changed the spreadability, circulation, and range of audience in writing.
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