This portion of my article addresses the ways in which economic forces have led us to make our digital texts imitate print texts. In this way, economics yields a greater influence over the writing product than the genre itself. Continue to Part II or return to the Introduction.
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Where have you noticed the blurring of lines between digital and print texts? Do you think it’s necessary to continue to create hybrid digital texts (digital texts that make use of some print conventions) so as to ‘transition’ readers into the digital culture? Is there a tipping point at which we must force our readers to leave behind familiar, and perhaps comforting, print conventions? Is there a value in ‘uncomfortable’ reading? Must we create such an ‘uncomfortable’ reading experience in order to truly capitalize on the digital realm and allow it to develop its own genres?