Blog #2

Prompt: "Explain how your ecosystem map relates to the digital ecologies you read about in the Eyman reading and/or what this tells you about how writing circulates online."

My ecosystem map for "Coffin" and my subsequent "Revision" is shown below. It relates to the digital ecologies I read about in the Eyman's “Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice” on account of it being “…a systems-based view of both the environments and relationships that take place through digital circulation mechanisms” that went into generating and proliferating the pieces in question (Eyman, 2015, p. 85).

The map can—of course—be started from anywhere; however, I focused the viewers’ attention on the published work. The second most prominent items within the map are the different avenues where I generated my ideas and produced the product within. They include Google, Microsoft, NASA, YouTube, Energy.gov, Photoshop, DU, Harvard Medical School, and the National Library of Medicine.

The least prevalent things on the ecosystem map are the videos, articles, views, favorites, blogs, posts, work, and classes that each avenue had specifically contributed to the making of "Coffin."

Additionally, it is important to note that most of this ecosystem is based upon the production of a singular work and while there has been some engagement it has not been in an active form of responding to the piece via generating work based off it, so this map is also attempting to reflect that. This nature is something that I intend to change as I further expound upon my "Revision," but I also believe it reflects the most predominant form of how writing circulates online. 

What I mean by this statement is that most posts and pieces do not receive accolades—or little to any attention at all for that matter—meaning that the accumulation and articulation of consumed media without a significant response from the internet is reflective on how writing tends to circulate online in the plurality of cases rather than the exceptional few that we often hold as exemplars to aspire to.