Jason Manning, the Washington Post politics editor, spoke about using multiple platforms in reporting. It was a great presentation, Manning sure knows his history. He ain't scared about the future either. The unknown seems to invigorate the reporting process. New rules are being invented.
People complain about kids not reading, getting dumber. They said the same thing when the novel became popular. Their kids couldn't read Latin. Doesn't matter. Old ways die, that's the way it is. When our kids run the show, some of them won't know comma splices. If enough of them don't know it, it will no longer matter.
Some of the ways people are now reporting seem very novelistic to me. 360 degree camera shots showing instead of telling, referential asides, video footnotes.
The Chandra Levy Story is a perfect example of this new media.
Embrace it. It's exciting.
Adam Haller
Nortwestern High School
Baltimore, Md
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This information age is exciting, though I wonder how it will impact the evolution of the English language? Grammarians work towards preserving the language and I would be curious to see if because there is so much available information constantly flowing, is the language changing faster than in the past?
ReplyDeleteAshley Barnes
Bel Air High School
Bel Air, Md.
Coming from a theater, video, film and sound background I have been involved in form of multimedia or another. It seems to me as though the phrase has taken a bit of a turn. The same could be said for the term participatory from Tom Blodgett's lecture earlier today. What it means to me is not the same as what it means to my students.
ReplyDeleteFor me the term harkens back to George Plimpton getting in the ring with Sonny Liston or taking the field with The Detroit Lions and then reporting in first person. Hunter Thompson did the same. He befriended Sonny Barger of the Hell's Angels and presented an insider's view of their activities and lifestyle.
Now participatory appears to mean commenting on the work of other people and blogging or posting or about what another wrote. Even though I am seeing some benefit to these new technologies I remain unconvinced of their effectiveness. Opinion is simply that.