Media vs. Paper

Something that caught my eye was when I was reading the difference between the paper copies like a book, newspaper, or text. The other was media, so a computer, phone, or tablet. There is a big difference in the two of these forms of reading. The reason why this idea caught my eye was because we talked about this a little bit in class as well, and as we talked about that, it kept getting my attention more and more. I was very engaged when we were having a class so I thought it would be fun to look at it some more. When I was reading “imagining the blogosphere” I  think that reading on media vs reading on paper text, has the same type of interest and knowledge to me. When I am reading on paper, I feel like I am more focused, I can contribute myself and my whole brain to just go straight to what I am reading. I don’t really doze off, or think of other things because it’s just me and the paper. When I am reading something online, I tend to get distracted. By getting distracted, I mean, maybe a text or a snap chat comes through, so I click over and reply to that but once I’m done replying, I go back to the article and I’m lost. I don’t know where I am, or what I was talking about and then when that happens I lose interest in the article. But there are times when it works to my advantage very well! When I get going on a topic that interests me a lot, I love having the internet directly right there. When I am learning something new or maybe don’t know something I can click over to google it. I can just go to the topic, get the information, and go back to the topic. By doing that, I’m staying all on the same topic, but just learning more which makes me more interested.  Aslo, when you write a text, there’s many papers of rough drafts that you have to go through to get your final project. You have to have people look over it multiple times to make sure your spelling, grammar, and writing is perfect. That is very time consuming. Yes, I understand that it’s probably the better way to do it because it is making us think about how to spell that word, we have to think a little harder to make sure our paper is good. When you have media, such as writing on a computer, you have so many tools to help you. You have spell check, grammarly, and so many other apps to critique your paper as you write so as you write it, it’s critiquing it. That way when you’re done, you may have just a couple people look over it, but you can publish it almost immediately after you write it.