Lecture 2:
This last week has been a bit of a
shake-up for me as I found out I will no longer be able to attend
lectures due its rescheduling and consequent clash with another of my
subjects. After an initial freak-out I was reassured by the man
himself (Dr Redman) that I will be just fine if I listen to lectures
via Lectopia each week. I have therefore dedicated each Tuesday
morning to lying bed listening to my JOUR1111 lecture.
So this week's lecture focused on news,
with emphasis on “old media” and “new media.” Many forms of
old media such as radio, newspapers, television and magazines are
beginning to lose popularity in favour of new technological ways of
communicating, namely on the internet. When I think of my own media
uses I agreed with what was being said. The comparison between Web
1.0, Web 2.0 and the newly emerging Web 3.0 was a large focus of the
lecture. While Web 1.0 is a maybe a species destined for extinction
Web 2.0 is thriving in the 21st century with the invention
of social networking site like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter. However
there is now a new beast arriving on the scene (I was unaware of this
up until today) that will change how we use the internet once again.
It will allow for much more individual and personalised information
and when I first heard this it all seemed a little scary to me. Too
personal perhaps.
So this was all interesting stuff but I
was wondering how it related to me, in this course, doing journalism.
But of course I soon found out it relates a heck of
a lot to journalism as it changes how news and media reaches people,
is exchanged and shared. If we are now getting most of our news
online and without having to pay much, if anything, for it then how
do journalists get paid for their stories? Do we have a job?
It is
indeed an exciting time to be a journalist, as Dr Redman told us last
week. I do believe there is a bright future for journalism, it is
just a new one that must be adjusted to and we will have to continue
adjusting. I can now understand why we will be keeping a blog and
getting a Twitter account. Its all part of the process of being a
journalist in the 21st
century.
On a
different note, I'd like to post a link to an article I read about a
photographic journalist working for National Geographic. I've often
dreamed of being a journalist along these lines and I found what she
had to say honest and interesting. While many people may think its a
job where you simply wonder around taking thousands of photos until
you get a few good ones, there is a lot more hard work involved than
that, not to mention a lot of stress with deadlines to meet and money
budgets. By the end of the article though I was thinking, “wow, she
has a pretty amazing job. Hard work, but hopefully rewarding.” Have
a read if you've ever considered photographic journalism or even
travel journalism.
Also
this website allows you display your own photo journalism portfolios
and features some amazing photographs. I would love to be able to go
to some of these places and bring back stories to share. Here's the
link to the website if you want to have a look at some of the
photography other than the ones below.
“A
picture tells a thousand words” - I couldn't agree more!
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