ESSAY | Digital Writing Circa 2004
by Jim Andrews
My own feeling about digital writing is that it is still in its infancy on a societal level, but has been developed into something like a strong beginning by digital writers. It is in its infancy on the societal level in the sense that peoples' consciousness of writing as a polyartistic enterprise through several media is not as widely prevalent as print-minded literacy. People do not have much of a sense of composition in several media, and their reading skills of such work — and by 'reading' I mean here something more comprehensive than reading solely text — are in the initial stages.
Read the full essay online at:
http://www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas_39.html
My own feeling about digital writing is that it is still in its infancy on a societal level, but has been developed into something like a strong beginning by digital writers. It is in its infancy on the societal level in the sense that peoples' consciousness of writing as a polyartistic enterprise through several media is not as widely prevalent as print-minded literacy. People do not have much of a sense of composition in several media, and their reading skills of such work — and by 'reading' I mean here something more comprehensive than reading solely text — are in the initial stages.
Read the full essay online at:
http://www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas_39.html
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