Week 2 Blog Post: Marketable Chunks

In the "When Writing Becomes Content" article, we read about how writing and content can be used in tandem but do have a difference in format. Dush also mentions the importance of how professionals who are in the world of English take care to not fall behind on the importance of content as the rhetoric of the world seems to be changing.

In "Writing as extended mind: Recentering cognition, rethinking tool use" we read about how writing and technology can have an equal impact on one another. Overstreet also discusses that we, as digesters of anything written need to include our extended minds. Meaning that we not only use our brain but that our internal processes and experiences can help challenge our current understanding to make way for new beliefs. 

The question that Lexi raised today in class of the problems that could arise from putting a paywall behind free information was really interesting, but I also really understood Adam's point of how that censorship would filter out accurate information. Something that was brought up in the reading was the concept of marketable chunks. "For example, chapters extracted from a book for republication in a "permissions-paid" coursepack, or individual songs sold in isolation from the albums on which they originally appeared." (Dush 178). I feel like this could be a possible method of bridging the gap between accurate information and a paywall. If there are snippets of the truth that are revealed on many platforms, and if people have an interest in pursuing the topic deeper, they then could approach the subject of the paywall. If the little snippet of the truth keeps them satisfied, then they can continue to have that free resource available to them. Something to consider!