When I first took a look at my screenshot as a photograph, I begin to understand why it takes me so long to concentrate and compose a paper of any sort. I generally always have multiple programs running in the background that tend to distract me. In this, there are about 7 tabs open in Firefox, but only the top one is shown, which is an online game. With my background utilizing a black at the top, eyes are drawn towards the quotes near the top of the picture, also detracting and causing a lack of focus.
Composing in digital space does a few things to the creative process. It allows information quickly at our fingertips, the ability to physically write the paper faster, or at least more legible. It does detract though, as there are so many things one can quickly become distracted with, like myself. We can then lose focus, and all of a sudden, time flies and backs are against a wall for a deadline. This digital space does have it’s advantages, but it certainly shows one major disadvantage as well. So for those people that could have an attention disorder or just a general lack of concentration, this could be a terrible thing.
By having a digital workspace, I do believe that it does allow us to have a more creative writing approach. We can quickly go back and edit previous work, and tweak it until we have exactly what we wanted. We can only better understand this through viewing and seeing how people utilize the digital space as a composing area, instead of a computing or gaming area.
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