In this reading, the most interesting part was "it is oftern forgotten that digital life is still involves the written world". I was the one of them who forgot it.
Then what is the differnce between traditional writting on paper and writiing in digital space? The best exsample of traditional rwitting is a book, and and any web reading material is the one of hypertext (writting in digital space). The biggest differnece of these two is I can have on my hands or not. But they have equally readers and require them to understand what each sentences mean. In other words, both of them have different styles, but they have the same function as a communication tool ( mediun of communication).
One day, one of my fried showed me his iPad. To be honest, I am not intersted in iPad, then I asked him what is so cool on iPad. He explained alot, but the interesting application was E-book. His virtual bookshelf on iPad was already filled with many books. I borrwed his iPad and red virtual book. It looks pretty real paper book, and when trunign a page, it makes sounds like as turnign a paper. Yes, it was cool, but I did not feel to really want to buy virtual books.
Why? Because it was bit uncomfortable for me. E-book i red looks a real book(just out looking on screen), and I had a same actions, such as reasding and turning paper. The information I received from E-book would be exsactly same when I read same book on paper,but still differnt.
Now I realize another differnce between raditional writting on paper and writiing in digital space. Paper book simply requires reader to read, and digital writing, such as E-book, is more intaractive. There is no doubt digital life and writing have strong relationship, but it is also truet that their nature and the way of accessing to reader are different, i guess. Also e-book would never replace traditional books.
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