A journalism student who understands blogs
One of the topics that come up when journalism educators get together, is whether students studying journalism are "behind" their age-peers in their exploration and use of obvious media technologies like blogs, user-created and uploaded videos, and various D.I.Y. forms of communication and expression.
Many of my students shock me with their lack of curiosity and experimentation with digital media. But why go negative? Instead, I am going to link to work from students of mine who are involved in new media experimentation and content production.
Evan Minsker write "Blog: The Video Game" for the Herald-Dispatch news website originating in Huntington, W. Va.
Blog: The Video Game
Do you like video games? Do you also like reading? Well, that means you're in the minority. But it also means you're the perfect candidate to be a regular visitor to Blog: The Video Game. It's about new games, game news, gamer culture and love.Source: media.herald-dispatch.com
He has a good tone for a blog, and his take on gaming invites those who are not gaming fanatics to read it. I think his reviews would satisfy gamers, but since I am not a real gamer, I can only speculate on this.
He may put in a bit too much of personal, off-topic stuff in his posts, but that also depends on who his audience is. Anyway, for this week, Evan Minsker's Blog: The Video Game gets my shout out for student journalist who is engaging with media in ways likely to foster his career and future. Go, Evan, go.
Tags: means | Blog | Culture | video
1 comment:
I'm going! I'm going! Thanks for the shout out, I really appreciate it.
I do go off-topic quite a bit for a couple of reasons. For a while there, I didn't get paid, and gaming is a pretty expensive hobby these days. A lot of my posts for a while were off-handed wish lists and "I would review this but I am but a poor college student" type stuff. But now they pay me, so I try not to do it as much.
But once again, thanks a million.
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