Proposal

For my Critical Photo-essay I would like to explore the question: How has technology influenced todays writers and how will this impact the sharing of writing in the future?  Writing was originally created for record keeping, rather than for the sharing of the knowledge those records held.  Today, writing is being done on technologies that allow for a very large audience to view an author’s writing within minutes of its publication on the web.

                      Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter allow for a large audience to follow an unlimited amount of “authors” and to read their writing at a moment’s notice.  The sharing of the writing is available after the authors post their latest status update or shares a restaurant discovery on their food blog.  Does this quick transfer of writing and communication weaken the authors’ credibility? How does the quick output of information develop a new, more advanced type of audience?

                Overall, I would like to compare how writing used to be created and shared and how the audience accessed the writing, to how it is presently being processed and what this means for the future of writing.  (I think..?)