I will be critically evaluating Facebook as a part of my fourth project.
My thesis will be: N. Katherine Hayles believes that there is great achievement in writing and how it has transformed to an electronic text that can be read in many different ways possible. Essays that are electronically “written” are still considered to be “informative, meditative, and/or journalistic (Electronic Literature Collection Volume One).” Facebook is an example of this. It shows that not only do people connect socially, but that many can collectively show interest in writing in their own unique style. It also lets many people to write in any form they want and to become intellectual through reading and writing in their own way.
A quote that I am using to support this is, given by Hayles: “At this time in the early 1980s, modular programming was a new idea, and she thought it had much in common with the composition techniques she used in her writing classes. Paragraphs were like modules; transitions were like comments and annotations; structure and organization were like flowcharts (p. 35).”
One objection to my argument is made by Birkets and this quote: “I would draw the line, imprecisely, somewhere in the 1950s. That was when television worked its way into the fabric of American life, when we grew accustomed to the idea of parallel realities-one that we lived in, the other that we stepped into whenever we wanted a break from our living.People born after the mid-1950s are the carriers of the new; they make up the force that will push us out of our already-fading rural/small-town/urban understanding of social organization. The momentum of change has already made those designations all but meaningless. And many think it is a good thing (p.214-215).”
