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For assignment 1:3 I have chosen to tackle question seven which is\u00a0At the beginning of this lesson I pointed to the idea that technological advances in communication tools have been part of the impetus to rethink the divisive and hierarchical categorizing of literature and orality, and suggested that this is happening for a number of reasons.\u00a0 I\u2019d like you to consider two aspects of digital literature: 1) social media tools that enable widespread publication, without publishers, and 2) Hypertext, which is the name for the text that lies beyond the text you are reading, until\u00a0you<\/i> click. How do you think these capabilities might be impacting literature and story?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n With the continuing advances in technology has come a very large change in both orality and written literature. The internet is full of online platforms that give people the ability to express how they feel in a number of ways. This includes writing things such as blogs exactly like we are doing for this class. People also have the ability to publish literature without a an actual publisher ( I know someone who just got their first children’s book in print and I have genuinely debated doing this myself). In addition to literature many people post videos and comments that do not need to be monitored. This has completely changed the way stories can be told which has negatives and positives in my opinion. One of the positives is that it gives many more people who otherwise would not have the ability to tell their stories a platform that does not discriminate (although people can get backlash from other internet users), it also makes written literature more widely spread because there is not a limit to how many times it can be read whereas in a library they might only carry a few copies. One of the negatives that I see is that with the ability for anyone to publish what they want comes with the ability for people to spread hate content and false content.<\/p>\n With people having the ability to read literature online has come with many good components that can make a students life much easier. One of these being that scholarly articles published on the interne<\/a>t can now have interactive components such as hyperlinks, diagrams and other beneficial learning tools. I think that hypertext can create a much more dynamic storyline. By this I mean that when reading an article (or a blog much like ours) you can get more information than just what the person who is writing is putting down. It makes the widespread of information, whether that information is true or false, much easier for people to gain access and to find more relevant material related to what they are searching for. I think that online publishing<\/a> is making literature more easily accessible for readers, I know that I personally use my kindle a lot more than I buy books (even for many textbooks) which not only helps save trees but also makes it so that I can bring multiple books with me without the hassle and weight of multiple.<\/p>\n In my opinion the stories being told through the internet and hyperlinks are more beneficial. I think it gives more people a voice that otherwise would not have one and makes information more accessible.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Works Cited:<\/p>\n Breure, Leen, et al. \u201cRich Internet Publications: \u2018Show What You Tell.\u2019\u201d\u00a0Journal of Digital Information<\/i>, journals.tdl.org\/jodi\/index.php\/jodi\/article\/view\/1606.<\/p>\n Watson, Joel. \u201cHow Publishing Has Changed in the Digital Era?\u201d\u00a0Hot Topics<\/i>, 24 Jan. 2017, www.hottopics.ht\/19881\/how-publishing-has-changed\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everybody! 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