Jane Austen's 'Writing Spaces: Performances Of The Word'

Austen’s “piece” is a text. A “text” is a piece of work that can be done in various formats. It conveys a message to the audience and is therefore consumed by somebody else. The main idea behind the definition of “text” is that it is based off of content, rather than through the media or physical form used to present the message. The modern world has transformed our current definition of “text” to when that represents all types of works done by others and consumed by audiences. Austen’s piece, “Writing Spaces: Performances of the Word”, contains many elements to define it as a text. Austen has a clear message conveyed through her piece about the current use of language within technology. The author portrays a message in the text by using various

The word ‘letters’ falls down one letter at a time. The word ‘syllables’ appears one syllable at a time. The word ‘phonemes’ transitions from its normal state to how it would be written to show pronunciation. Another example occurs when she writes about words being placed behind glass, a box appears on the screen, emulating glass with the words showing up behind the “glass”. In a text consisting of just words on paper, the same effect would not be possible. The images provided by the use of technology help convey the true meaning behind the work. Austen used many technological elements in order to make her text easy, fun, comfortable, and interactive to consume, such as the glass image. However, there were some harsh transitions from one section of her work to another. Sometimes images or words would appear too fast, without allowing enough time to read them. While I understood the effect of this aspect, I think timing out her actual presentation to allow sufficient time for readers to consume would be one aspect to tweak. I also thought that the way she transitioned between sections could have been improved to make it easier to