Reading Response 3
February 2018 archive
Feb 22 2018
Media and Political Campaign
I think social media does have an effect on political campaigns. I don’t think the effect is always negative. For example in the article titled “The Role Played By Social Media In Political Participation and Electoral Campaigns.” They mention that “personal communication via social media brings politicians and parties closer to their potential voters.” Which …
Feb 22 2018
Media and Political Campaigns
Social media has been a big impact on politics this past couple of years. Obama was the first to use Twitter to follow up with younger voters. He did that to gain the votes of younger people he wanted to appeal to them. All the articles show how social media use in politics has increased. …
Feb 21 2018
Assignment 3 Discussion Board: Media and Political Campaigns
The readings for this blog post piqued my interest as I am still flabbergasted at our current President Trump and his social media usage. I am an older woman and have watched many campaigns during my years and nothing was like this last race for presidency in 2016. I am still in shock that social …
Feb 15 2018
Assignment N. 2
Betsy M. Paula MCS 244 Prof. Brucker-Cohen Assignment N. 2 “How is print media losing ground to electronic media in both content and delivery systems??” The decline on print media consumers is one of the reasons why I believe print media is losing ground to electronic media. When searching for news in the media not …
Feb 15 2018
Assignment Two
It seems as if these days anyone can be a journalist, especially if they have a smart phone. My question is does that tarnish the prestige of being a journalist? Does it affect the path in becoming a journalist? I say this because anyone now can pull out their smart phones out and interview people …
Feb 15 2018
Reading Response 2/15 – Blogging
Reading Response 2 The first reading Why Bloggers Can’t Replace the Work of Professional Journalists by Tony Rogers, raises a good point about the relationship between bloggers and professional journalists; “expressing one’s opinion is very different from doing objective news reporting. And while opinions are fine, blogs that do little more than editorializing won’t satisfy …
Feb 15 2018
Blogging vs Real news
Before reading these articles I actually did think blogging could replace real news. I thought that because in this day in age a lot of people turn to social media for information before actually turning on the news or searching a real news site such as Pix11 or News 12. I know that when somebody …
Feb 15 2018
Blogging vs. Traditional Media Outlets
Blogging has been around since the early to mid 2000s, but has only recently become more of an “institutionalized” medium on the rise. As “Why Bloggers Can’t Replace the Work of Journalists” states, blogging is a form of citizen journalism, which essentially gives anybody a platform to discuss, post, and curate whatever they want. It …
Feb 15 2018
blogging vs traditional news
Blogging and traditional news were always seen as two different types of sources where you got your info from. Blogging was seen as more of a way to get your gossip or a different opinion of actual news where as traditional news is what is actually occurring in the world. According to the first article …