Technology and its affect on Convergence

In our modern society technology is everywhere as it has become apart of our everyday lives. And although it helps simplify our lives it also has replaced certain aspects of our lives as well. Now, we make weekend plans with our friends via facebook instead of talking it out and reading today's news online instead reading a hard copy newspaper.

With faster technology also comes consequences, and often in the realm of news and journalism these effects affect copy editors. New Technology affects copy writers in many ways as it most importantly makes their role more crucial in the newsroom than ever before. Although all computers in this day and age have spell check and some grammatical tools, computers can not replace a good pair of human eyes which can edit mistakes that most computers often skip over.

Technology also makes a copy editor's job harder as well. As social technologies such as facebook and twitter make our writing voices more informal, copy editors have to work extra hard to make sure these same in formalities don't translate over into the newsroom.

Although new technologies are comming at us left and right and replacing lots of things we once did, I don't think copy editors and the role they play won't be replaced.