How important is writing to you? Without it, would you be able to form your thoughts to get your point across? Writing is a vital good that we use across the world in order to communicate with others on a day to day basis. An essential that allows us to form share and reproduce information that we feel needs to be out there. Writing to me, is seen as an art form. Some of us use to express ourselves to others, some of us use it to notify people all across the world of what's happening in our world and cities. A mass good that generate headlines for sports, world news, politics to religion. Over the years, “learning to write was the tuition for human education-” Wilbur Schramm. This food has indeed transcended to the point where it is perceived
…show more content…
I say that because back in time, you had people who couldn't read nor write and were considered legitimate phrasing illiterate. "Writing grew naturally from the elite in early cultures to the upper and then the middle classes in the Greek and Roman empires" (Kovarik, Bill. Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age, p.16). As you can see here, writing wasn't meant to be only with the elites. This form of communicating was meant for everyone to learn and hopefully one day passed down to be taught or to evolve. “Writing was the first human communication revolution, but confined to social elites. Historians and media theorist Harold Innis argued that the combination of writing and flexible communications made it possible to build empires"(Kovarik, p.16). With that being said, this is implying if the writing wasn't gradually taken away from social elites than it would be a damaged good. Had it not be passed down, society would of been different. To exercise my guess, imagine the social elites withholding this good. This world would have never been what it is today. By doing so, we now live in a world that is dominated by communication through various forms of writing. Some people may think as technology goes society goes or vice versa. If you were to really compare it, both are neck and neck with each other. Both viewpoints are similar, however, they’re suiting in their own
I say that because back in time, you had people who couldn't read nor write and were considered legitimate phrasing illiterate. "Writing grew naturally from the elite in early cultures to the upper and then the middle classes in the Greek and Roman empires" (Kovarik, Bill. Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age, p.16). As you can see here, writing wasn't meant to be only with the elites. This form of communicating was meant for everyone to learn and hopefully one day passed down to be taught or to evolve. “Writing was the first human communication revolution, but confined to social elites. Historians and media theorist Harold Innis argued that the combination of writing and flexible communications made it possible to build empires"(Kovarik, p.16). With that being said, this is implying if the writing wasn't gradually taken away from social elites than it would be a damaged good. Had it not be passed down, society would of been different. To exercise my guess, imagine the social elites withholding this good. This world would have never been what it is today. By doing so, we now live in a world that is dominated by communication through various forms of writing. Some people may think as technology goes society goes or vice versa. If you were to really compare it, both are neck and neck with each other. Both viewpoints are similar, however, they’re suiting in their own