Digital technology has greatly affected authorship and culture production. Those who have access to technology have a much greater means of creating cultural products and becoming authors. On the other hand, those who do not have access to technology are unable to become the same creators and consumers of such creations as their privileged counterparts.
The individuals that are on the access side of the digital divide have the means and access to information. They have the ability to be able to view, remix, re-edit, download and sample the content that they have at hand. What one person creates can be accessed and altered by another. These sequences of events give those who have access to technology the advantage when it comes to becoming an author and a creator of cultural products.
Those who are on the other side of the digital divide have very limited resources when it comes to being authors. The lack of access to technology strips them of information. Without the information and the content that is provided by technology there is no means to view, remix, re-edit, download and sample.
Without technology the possibility of authorship greatly changes. There are no blogs; no mp3’s, there is no video editing software, no internet. The means of creating are left in the hands of the individuals and what they have access to in their environment.
With digital technology, cultural productions becomes extremely abundant. When it is absent, there is a great loss in what a culture is/can be producing.
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