Summer has gotten the best of me already. I went all last week without posting a single thing on this blog. Oops. But sometimes I think we need a little break from the world of social media to just let ourselves be.
Anyways, I'm back now. As I was catching up on my twitter feed and reading some other blogs I follow, I came across two posts that really caught my attention. The first reminded me of a post I did a while back. I was sitting in the cafe on campus right in front of a giant stack of newspapers and hardly anyone was picking on up. While I can't say that all students don't read the news because of this one moment I witnessed, one Harvard survey, mentioned in Tony Rogers Journalism Guide, found that only one in 20 teens and one in 12 young adults read a newspaper on a daily basis.
Are young people actually following the news online? There are so many different, new, exciting ways of delivering content, but are those methods sufficient? While teens today may not read the news because they can't relate to it, they should still have an interest. New technologies have given the public easier access to news but teens still ignore it.
Something young people are more aware of is social media. "Networked," a blog about digital journalism from SPJ, listed the Top 10 Social Media Best Practices. Definitely gave some handy tips, mainly warning not to just jump into a site without a plan in mind of what exactly you want to accomplish there.
It's amazing to see how many interesting articles I missed in just one week of not reading my newsfeed.
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