Joseph Harris’s concept of forwarding is basically the idea
of keeping a conversation going by using certain techniques. Harris uses the
specific examples such as sending emails
to one another. In this sense writers are not directly responding to the text
but they are rather taking information from online articles or other writing
forms and moving the information to a new source. What happens when you are
circulating information like this some of the authors thoughts and ideals get
lost in translation. The person who is forwarding on the information of another
writer has their own opinions that they work into a message that uses forwarded
information and facts.
An example of this “forwarding” can also be found in almost
all new york times articles. For example, in a recent article I read about
Frank Ocean there was a hyperlink to his tumbler in the quote “Channel
Orange,” Ocean took to
his Tumblr site — his main point of contact with his fans”. This shows that
the times is not trying to summarize his blog but rather trying to give readers
a first hand example of the blog in order to make the article more specific.
They are taking information from other websites and putting it into their own
to redistribute that material. Examples of this are not just limited to news
articles, it can be seen in other blogs and even social networking. Forwarding
is in essence another way to take information and move it forward in order to
keep conversation/topic going
That's weird that you used Frank Ocean's Tumblr page as an example in this article. I wrote my short story on an article and also ended up visiting his Tumblr. I agree with what you have to say about forwarding. Celebrities don't always get to say what they want and when something is published they like or is true they can redistribute this first hand from sites like Tumblr or Twitter.
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