It’s all Css to me
I has a jesus moment.
One of those moments where a light shines down and the “AHHHHH” music starts playing in my head.
It was at 5 a.m. this morning when I woke up and could not go back to sleep and I rolled over, grabbed my iPhone and started checking local news and blogs to see what was going on at that ungodly hour in the morning. The Internet has fully integrated itself into my life.
When I fist came to Columbia, I was ready to study magazine journalism and to enhance my feature writing style to mirror magazine style writing. I wanted to be the next columnist for Vogue, Details, Out, TOC, or another magazine that served a niche that I was a part of or vastly intrigued by. Back then I turned the other way when someone started mentioning the idea of blogging or journalism moving to the Internet.
Now, heading into the halfway point in my junior year at college, it seems rather foolish of me to be so shortsighted. Multimedia journalism, mobile journalism and social journalism should have been my area of study from the get go.
As I walk down the streets, I constantly realize that I am looking for stories, not to write about for a print media outlet, but stories I can take photos of, upload, record interviews with via mobile device and later blog about. It is all my mind thinks about these days.
Not to say that my magazine article writing class, my featur…no screw that class it is pointless, and my opinion writing class have been helpful. The skills I have learned and am learning in these classes are invaluable as they teach me the fundamentals of the certain style of writing each class has. But now my mind is taking those styles, and rearranging them to fit the Internet.
The one class that I look forward to constantly is my Online and Publishing class, a class that constantly gives me a slight headache because, as my friend Jessica Galliart, www.jessicagalliart.tumblr.com, said, is a total mind f—-.
Multimedia has taken this world by storm and it is showing no signs of slowing down. We are the generation of the Internet and I plan on fulling embracing that title. Next semester Columbia will be offering the first ever mobile journalism course which I plan on being there to see history unfold and the future reveal itself. In my opinion it is the dawn of a new era in the field of journalism.
But I am left to wonder, as I grab my iPhone and ready it to call drop.io., will our generation or the one following be the end of print newspapers? Will we be so engrossed in the Internet that we no longer learn how to print papers in a tabloid format? Yes they say people still love to have a hardcopy of the news in their hand when they read it. But what generation are they talking about. Ours? I consider it an anomaly when I see a fellow student reading The New York Times’ print edition. Once our generation has taken precedent, will the ‘hardcopy’ become the copy found on our mobile computers? (With what they can do, they are no longer considered phones in my opinion).
Journalism will adapt to include this new version of itself. It has to or it will surely suffer in the end.
