History of Newspapers
9/18/14
On the 9/10th we learned about the history of newspapers. Newspapers were first created in Rome in 59 B.C. and was called Acta Diurna. Throughout time it has gone from monthly to weekly to daily. Also, newspapers have traveled from Rome, to Vienna, to Sweden. The Swedish newspaper is the oldest ongoing newspaper. It has been running since 1645. This shows the longevity of this media of news. Its a source that people have been using for centuries.
I thought that the lecture/discussion was interesting because I don't know much about newspapers and didn't know that they have been around for so long (since 1645!). I also thought it was interesting to learn about the different types of newspapers such as the Abolitionist Newspaper of 1831 which was instrumental to rid this country of the curse of slavery. I am a big fan of the history of the Civil War (my family fought for the Confederacy....) and so I am hungry for any information from that era.
My one critique is that I thought we should have spent more time discussing the shift in this era from print media to electronic media. Nowadays, young people do not have the patience to read an entire newspaper. Young people are used to getting ideas in "sound bites," which literally means, "a short extract from a recorded interview, chosen for its pungency or appropriateness." Newspaper stories are just too long and don't include sound or movement, which is what this generation is used to. We just simply have low attention spans.
While newspapers may be low tech, nonlinear, a physical object and portable, I believe that they will eventually die out when the people who have nostalgia for this media are gone.
I thought that the lecture/discussion was interesting because I don't know much about newspapers and didn't know that they have been around for so long (since 1645!). I also thought it was interesting to learn about the different types of newspapers such as the Abolitionist Newspaper of 1831 which was instrumental to rid this country of the curse of slavery. I am a big fan of the history of the Civil War (my family fought for the Confederacy....) and so I am hungry for any information from that era.
My one critique is that I thought we should have spent more time discussing the shift in this era from print media to electronic media. Nowadays, young people do not have the patience to read an entire newspaper. Young people are used to getting ideas in "sound bites," which literally means, "a short extract from a recorded interview, chosen for its pungency or appropriateness." Newspaper stories are just too long and don't include sound or movement, which is what this generation is used to. We just simply have low attention spans.
While newspapers may be low tech, nonlinear, a physical object and portable, I believe that they will eventually die out when the people who have nostalgia for this media are gone.
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