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| Inverted Pyramid of Journalism |
You can tell when you are in a great course when you are
given bags of jellybeans to eat mid-lecture as a way to learn about
entitlement. Not just any jellybeans either, Jelly Belly’s, one of my all-time
favorite lollies.
Today, in our second lecture for the semester we moved away
from the introductions into the course and straight into “New News” and “Old
News”. As one could guess, “New News” is all about how we get our daily dosage
of news in this modern, technologically driven world that is the 2000s. And of
course, “New News” is the internet. “Old News” is the traditional ways media
platforms shared news with the public, like newspapers, magazines and
television.
It was really interesting to think about how much has
changed in just a few years, back in 2007 I was still using dial-up connection
internet where webpages took what felt like an hour to load, whereas, now that
just seems absurd. I’m accessing my Facebook
within seconds on my phone and playing a 3D game like Temple Run rather than Snake
2 on my old brick-like Nokia. My Sims
are now living on my phone rather than in a disc drive on my desktop computer.
Most of this lecture was focused on “New News”. The changes
the World Wide Web has gone through since it first took off. It’s hard to even
imagine Web 1.0, which was considered a place for companies to advertise more
than anything else, to Web 2.0 and the future of the internet using Web 3.0.
For about as long as I can remember, I have been amongst the Web 2.0 users,
producing my own photos, videos, statuses, blogs etc. through social
networking. I’ve enjoyed having the creators of webpages hand the reins over to
us, the users, and let us drive it as an online community. I’m hoping that this
will continue as Web 3.0 rolls out across the world with its (super useful)
meta-tagging and focus on individuals as users. I am really interested to see
what is ahead for us on the internet.
~Laura
30/07/2012
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