Forwarding

     Harris's definition of forwarding is described by him as "moving bits of text and paper around." A writer, Harris argues, "Forwards" when he or she takes pieces of text or images and uses them in a new context. This is as Harris calls it, a circulatory system of information that, while maintaining the same fundamental elements, still provides for a wide range of twist in a story. Harris explains how there are at least four ways of "forwarding" which are illustrating, authorizing, borrowing, and extending. In the young entrepreneur blog I have been following I have noticed every story comes from forwarding. In fact Young Entrepreneur writes all of its articles based off of other websites and news sources. It is astounding to see how the usage of "forwarding" has increased as information becomes more readily and instantly available. It is also surprising to see how apparent "forwarding" is in blogs. It seems as though because blogs are much more opinion based they tend to have more "forwarding" in them, quite possibly due to the informal nature of blogs. There is a spin on every blog post and on an individual level blogs should be questioned for their bias and validity. However our society has reached a point where the wide variety of opinions has allowed the discovery of new truths in stories and, as a collective whole, the blogosphere is incredibly accurate. It literally can be viewed as millions of detectives trying to understand new stories and clues to the truth. And as time has told truths have been discovered thanks to the likes of the blogosphere. One example is the recent Arab Spring in the Middle East that was mainly driven by the media and the blogosphere. Images of the devastation were shot out worldwide in every direction and in a matter of minutes people were becoming aware of the event. Throughout the internet opinions were being injected into the internet and soon enough the forwarding of information had caused a revolution. So although certain things about a narrative are altered on an individual scale as a whole the different methods of forwarding help produce a more accurate and concise presentation of the narrative.