The Song of the Alphabet in Cyberspace

The difference between the pre-literate acoustic world and the alphabetical visual world is that the pre-literate acoustic world is part of our own cognitions or illusions; we can come up with what we want to write in this language. The audience sees things from that writer’s perspective, the information comes from everywhere and what we see and do. The visual world comes from what the writers believe and sources that they cannot see or hear them. The television has become part of the acoustic world because it allows viewers to see things that they cannot be present for. It is helped for them to gain a new perception on what is happening in other areas that they can write about.

The alphabet has segregating tendencies because it is not always perfect with how it gets the message from the printing press. The acoustic writing exists in its own universe and the alphabet is a part of that universe. Hearing, radio, television, and cyberspace have their own versions of acoustic writing because they belong in that particular media. The printing press reverses the segregating tendencies by writing about what the writer believes will get the views to read the story and learn the information, it also prevents the news online from being altered, since writing on the internet and other media sources can be changed or made up for the sake of entertainment.

Alphabetic communication in online communication make cyberspace acoustic because anyone online can write anything online, people like kids, teenagers and adults. It does not require any special talent to write online, since all you need to know is the alphabet and how to press certain buttons. There is no need to learn other languages for them to learn since the internet can translate that all on its own. The online world is different from the TV world and other media because people can create anything online, including stories that cannot be seen on TV. This includes even fake stories that can be brought to the TV environment.

The two selection criteria for writing for the media is absorbing information from the media and then transmitting it on to the media. That way we can write what we desire and share it for everyone to know. In 20 years or so in the future, humanity might not even need to type, we can just say whatever we want into machines and it will be good enough. This is what writing is coming too.