Relationship between print and digital media

Print and Digital Media both influence our everyday lives each and everyday. First, print media has had a major impact in my life as I grew up with print media as opposed to digital media in comparison to the kids of todays age. I grew up playing with coloring books, reading books out of textbooks, reading paper magazines, taking notes on lined paper, reading the paper form of the newspaper, writing to-do lists, and so much more. As a result of growing up writing with pens and paper and reading hard copies of books and having math textbook problems infront of me in a textbook to work out, I am more used to this lifestyle than the modern digital media of todays world. Kids growing up with smart phones, reading newspapers and blogs and magazines online, making notes in their phones, reading books on kindles and the ipad, having facebooks, instagrams, and twitters, are more exposed to technology than I am used to. I grew up with a flip phone that you would rarely see a kid with today, and doing math problems from a textbook. One thing that has surprised me in college is how I do my math quizzes online and homework. I do not like this feature of the digital media because I am used to being able to workout the problems from a textbook infront of me and having as much time to complete the math homework, rather than being timed online. Another factor that I feel like has changed in everyday life is letter writing and thank you note writing. With this new sense of digital media and digital technology letter writing and thank you note writing I begin to see is gradually decreasing because of texting, email writing, phone calling, and so much more. I think as a result of this digital media is starting to replace print media. Also, this means so much for everyday writing because we see everyday writing is becoming less personal through the everyday writing. It becomes less personal because when letters and thank you notes are not handwritten, then it lacks a characteristic of everyday writing. Audience is also a little eluded to because things can not be sloppy when they are typed, for example, if you were writing a letter it could be in cursive or regular text. Another idea to focus on is newspapers. Newspapers have seen a decline ever since they have become more popular online. I even have seen my parents become interested in these new innovations. My dad quit ordering the newspaper to our house and now reads it online. In comparison, print and digital media have both had an impact on everyones lives. They both share the characteristics of getting information across to others, thinking of the audience. Another way the digital media thinks of audience is because everyone is so into technology these days that people are beginning to follow the chain of patterns and make more digital media easier to access and cheaper through smart phones. This is a very interesting topic to explore that has interested me ever since the first project we have done when I wrote about thank you notes.
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