(Week Twelve “New Media”)
This week, the final week of our journalism lectures, was
the one and only lecture I have been unable to attend. Being in Australia for
the first time for my cousin’s birthday, I prioritised build-a-bear and cake
and don’t regret it as the lecture, when I listened to it on lectopia meant
more to me than it would have had I attended the lecture myself.
This is because the lecture focused on the importance of new
media in the availability of news and the easy access of information via the
internet and I was accessing the lecture only days later and I was already able
to see it online, both the lecture slides and the audio. The guest lecturer, a
blogger, emphasised the importance of tweeting and new media, the type of media
we, even as students, can access just like professionals. We are so privileged,
in this generation of journalism to be able to present our journalism in the
same medium as professionals and have a large audience assess our work. The
opportunities blogging presents me with, the opportunities I have not yet
taken, shame me on a good day.
This lecture has been an eye opener, and I am more motivated
to work on my personal blog which I have been running since I lived in Hawai’i
but have been neglecting in favour of my studies. This lecture on new media has
reminded me that taking the time and working on my blog will actually help me
in my studies as I will be building up my portfolio and trafficking a bigger
audience.
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