For this blog post, I invite you to reflect on your personal relationship to the topics discussed during our first week together. In the process, please contextualize your thinking around one of the two NYT articles assigned for class today (2/2):
- Welcome to the Post-Text Future by Farhad Manjoo
- We Learned to Write the Way We Speak by Gretchen McCulloch
As a point of departure, consider the following questions: how do digital tools and platforms change the ways in which you write and communicate with friends, family, and broader discourse communities? How does your audience shape the ways in which you comport yourself as a digital writer? What sorts of discourse conventions do you fall back on when you communicate through digital technology and why?
In short, I encourage you to approach this blog post as an opportunity to make sense of your use of digital technology as a developing writer in the 21st century.
