Blog 2

Digital Technology has impacted the issues of authorship, access, and cultural production because of just how easy it is to face these issues. Through digital technology anyone can create something new. The issue of authorship is a tough one. We can take blogging for example; blogging allows anyone to be an author of their work. Anyone can write anything about anything. Digital technology has created more authors. The negative about authorship is that sometimes when credit isn’t given, with so many people writing, we don’t really know who had the original idea that is mentioned. When something is remixed but the original piece isn’t credited then the remixed piece can become its own being and the original piece can be missed or neglected. That’s where the problem of authorship comes along in the digital age. Digital technology impacted our access to technology because we have it 24/7, all day every day. Different ideas are constantly being shares, reworked, and exchanged. Digital Technology has impacted means of cultural production as well because it is a new medium to share and exchange information. We used to rely on solely radio, TV and newspapers and all of those mediums have merged to be included in digital technology. For example, Twitter has changed our culture’s production because it is now used for entertainment, friends, news, music, etc. It is being used to expand and move forward culturally.

~Karina Avellaneda~