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Gilbert Digital world indeed impacts the Discourse Communities The digital environment enables the deliberate building of a discourse community devoted to share interest. Today, most of us are a part of some type of discourse community. Rather it be for entertainment, education, fantasy sports, or hobbies, digital discourse communities are thriving in this social media age. In looking at the term “discourse community”, it is apparent that discourse reflects all forms of communication and is linked to the concept of community, which reflects a group of individuals. The digital world has allowed for more building of communities through discourse. You are able to get real time responding from your fellow community members. This has increased the speed of discourse and community building around the world. The most noticeable differences within the fantasy football community 30 years ago and today are the speed of conversations virtually that allows for more powerful dialog with less words. For example, on Twitter the community can exist around a single hashtag. Hashtags let you organize an entire community of people with shared interest. Language has evolved to abbreviations and acronyms online. Conversations on Twitter is limited to 140 words per post. So, the conversations are contextualized more quickly than 30 years ago, when such communities would have to rely on in-person meetings or communication via mail. Taylor The digital world as a whole has changed the way we are able to communicate with one another. The digital world allows us to communicate with people from all around the world without a millisecond of delay. It allows us access to other like-minded individuals that we otherwise would not have had access to. The digital world has impacted discourse communities in several ways. Via the development of social media, you are able to have access to communities from around the world. You can create a community of people who otherwise would have never met in person. This allows for quite a few differences between present-day discourse communities and those that took place 30 years ago. Most prominently is communication, discourse communities now have access to multiple forms of communication. Whether it is medical staff now having access to multiple ways to get ahold of each other throughout the hospital, ranging from cellphones to pages and even walkie-talkies.  Even a discourse community as simple as a family is forever changed by the digital world. My family in particular is separated throughout the country, because of modern technology, such as zoom and instant messaging, we are able to communicate easily and keep in touch. We are able to create “group chats” where the entirety of the community can be involved.