Writing Spaces June 26, 2009

 My Writing Spaces

The writing spaces I use most frequently are:

-         Microsoft Word

-         Email / World Wide Web

-         Text Messages

-         Pen / Paper

 These writing spaces are all unique in their own way. Microsoft word is unique in that it is just like using a piece of paper and a pen, except everything you type can be corrected and changed in a second. Email and the World Wide Web provide me with the ability to contact other people within a second it also allows me to do research on whatever topic I want. Text messaging also allows instant connections with my friends and family without having to make a phone call. And of course, the pen and paper allow me to express myself with my thoughts right there in front of me. These writing spaces allow me to do many different things and ultimately connect with others.

 Remediation

I think the computer and the pen / paper remediate themselves. While the pen and paper came first, like the computer, it allows one to get whatever they want to say out on a writing space with the ability to change and mortify what they are saying. The computer remediates everything the pen / paper were set out to do.

My Writing Spaces June 23, 2009

 

The three writing spaces that I use most frequently are Microsoft word, World Wide Web, and forums. What makes Microsoft Word unique is that it looks like a piece of notebook paper and we are use to that. Also spell check, and the backspace key when we make a mistake. The WWW is unique because we no longer have to use books we can look up all of our research online and get any kind of information we need. Final forums are unique because we can ask people questions and get there response all on the Internet. We can interact with people from miles away. According to Bolter, remediation is “in the sense that a newer medium takes the place of an older one, borrowing and reorganizing the characteristics of writing in the older medium and reforming its cultural space”(23). When word processing first came out on computers it was just a white screen to type on. Now in Microsoft word it looks like an actual paper you are writing on. This is remediation because it is taking the old version and making it look more realistic. When the World Wide Web was first introduced it only had a few search engines that would come up. Now if you type in something you will get pages and pages of that search. This is remediation because it is taking something that already existed and making it better.