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“What is writing in the 21st century?”
21st century writing can be anything.
It can be writing directed at an audience to gain attention like a book or news article, but it can also be a private writing for self-enjoyment such as a diary entry.
It can be posts on social media that have no sense of grammar or direction, but also a post about one’s life to brag or simply update their viewers/followers.
It can be different music genres or movie categories.
It can be formal or informal, because there isn’t much of a limitation on what 21st century writing is.
Many people associate writing as a physical action with a tangible product, but anything carefully well planned out and scripted without visual alphabetic text can be writing too, like movies or songs for example. Evaluating if something is interesting or entertaining is how we have begun to distinguish whether or not it is a good form of writing. This is where social media comes in. Some of the most popular forms of writing in this generation are social media and text messaging due to their kairotic ability. They allow the opportunity to share something the second it happens. Social media is a way to connect with other people in a primarily public way, and text messaging is meant to converse with others with much more privacy. We’ve also begun to associate emojis, emoticons and other visual pictures as writing because of the messages they send. We’re valuing irony and sarcasm in our writing more and more, which has become a very large part of what distinguishes 21st century writing from others.
In reality, 21st century writing can be a number of things, because the possibilities are endless. The real question might be, “what isn’t writing in the 21st century?”