Digitally Evolving

To be blunt of course the nature of writing, power, and knowledge is going to change with respect to technology changing, in this case specifically it becoming more open to the average person. I just doing think it’s a huge wave of revelation and the nature of writing, power, etc. are going to be turned upside down.
The power won't change since it exists inherently with financial backing that belongs to large corporations. A large number of users or “supporters” of a blog or site isn’t going to truly grant you “power” because on the internet many of them are just shadows, in that they won’t go out of their way to do something in real life for the cause. For example, how many times have you donated to your favorite site or blog?
As for writing it’s going to change to fit the new medium, as seen with instant messaging there is a degeneration of following writing standards. Though most people will stick to the honored system of writing, which is so deeply ingrained into everyone almost as much as religion, because there is only one right way to do something and of course change is bad for those stuck in the past.
One can’t really say that “knowledge” is changing since it is simply a shift in medium. I mean that is a change of how it is presented but not the core information being transferred. Unless the prompt was referring to a “modern university”, I think the modernization of a university is hard to accomplish due yet again to strict standards of the past. Besides the idea that “The modern university should work not by defining fields of study but by removing obstacles so that knowledge can circulate and be reconfigured in new ways” seems way too philosophical with no actual merit to it. Since I believe fields of study are defined to focus on singular areas so that one can fully understand a part of in essence a full database of knowledge. From the quote in Jenkins’ piece it seems as though he is suggesting learning everything at once which sounds good except for being practically impossible. I’m simply perplexed by the idea of a modern university.