As a mass communications major, I assume this course will be beneficial and intriguing. Since it is only the first day of the course, my comments are limited regarding the content. However, from the course description I was able to pull away that we will be focusing on the emergence of media throughout the years. Focusing on how media has grown in every way possible and that it is still growing. Over the past few years, the word “media” has adopted a first name; social. As the course develops, I expect to talk more about social media and its effects on society.
One of the original forms of social media, blogging, is still in tact today. Blogging can be used for any subject on any website written by anybody, that’s the beauty of it. If you missed a recent episode of your favorite show and don’t have time to catch up, (I’m sure) you can read a blog about it on their fan website. If you went on a cross-country trip and want to keep friends and family up to date on your whereabouts, you can blog about it. This past winter, a boy was brutally beat at Bloomsburg University. His mother and sister write a daily blog with updates on his condition. But I must say, as your typical poor college student, the best thing about having a blog is that it’s free of charge!
Having two blog posts per week for the next six weeks is a nice way of allowing us to summarize our weekly focus points. Personally, it is a communication tool for myself to myself. Instead of writing my understanding of the topic in a notebook, it will be written as a blog. As an aspiring journalists, between classes and organizations, I feel as though that I have lost a little bit of my drive to write. Producing blogs has given the lost touch back to me.
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