In Roman times, delivery was all about the “oral and bodily aspects of an oral speech or performance” (); it mainly referred to elements still associated with theater productions, which I used to do in high school. It’s all about how you use your voice and body to get points across. That includes obvious things like speaking audibly but also projection. how you say words. conscious gestures that you make, and the emotional impact of your delivery. I expected the article to argue that technology played the biggest part in delivery being “lost” but I don’t think that’s what he’s exactly saying. He seems to believe that treating the concepts of delivery as one set-in-stone set of rules rather than adaptable concepts is what degrades it; while that is done in technological settings, it’s definitely not exclusive.
Economics is all about the purpose of the audience and writer. It relates to monetary value but is more about social/emotional value that writers put into a piece which makes the audience “buy into” it. Porter argues that this relates to digital delivery because you constantly need to question the motivations behind online presences; a prime example of this is questioning why people post the content they do on social media. Is it because they want to make friends? Or seem progressive? Or disagree with their families? These motives play into the reliability of the author and affect reasons that “consumers” have for reading a piece.
We consider this concept of author’s purpose/reliability and writing for a specific audience every day. I’d say one of the most prominent ways I’ve had to do this was when writing a grant application in Dr. Rice’s Grant Writing class. It’s all about thinking ahead of how your audience will react and influencing them to give you the money you want.
Have you had a class or experience where writing for an audience was particularly important? If so, what was it?
Intro to Digital Texts and Media 