This blog is the result of a 10-week classroom collaboration between New Media Communications students at Oregon State University. The course was NMC 301: Writing for the Media Professional, taught by Pamela Cytrynbaum, of the New Media Communications program. Our charge was to create our own blogs, then design and fill a class blog that would serve as a relevant, well-researched New Media information clearinghouse.
As New Media students, we are training for jobs that do not yet exist. Information is being traded, recycled, reworded, and reused in a million different forms and formats. We are witnessing a revolutionary renaissance of how information is created, gathered, revised and communicated. It is no longer true that only those who own the printing press own the discussion. We can all be “content” creaters, exchangers and users; and that is only a slice of the worldwide “New Media” movement. From podcasting and YouTube to new ways of practicing journalism and digital video production, New Media has taken over the way we exchange and convey our stories.
This blog represents the culmination of our conversation. In it we try to raise and answer questions about just what is happening to the way our information travels. The creators of this blog have compiled information on new media books, careers, podcasts, and even a section for skills you will need to succeed in such an ever-changing and growing world of information exchange. Search through the categories panel and discover for the first time or brush up on what New Media is and the buzz surrounding this hot topic.
Feel free to comment and offer suggestions; this is, like New Media itself, an ever-transforming enterprise always pushing outward.
-Kyle Ackerman and the rest of NMC 301
