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The Media Kingdom: Talking to the dead with the medium!  #brb

Welcome back to blog 3 and a more happy me! The Work in Media Industries lecture wasn’t interrupted by any strikes however it may as well have been back bowling if you know what I mean. So I’m going to talk about the media course as a whole from my perspective. 

Old media vs New Media

It’s the main event time – Old media vs New media! The fight of the decade. It features lecturers who don’t know how to operate PowerPoint and talk to us about Twitter as if it was invented yesterday. I surround myself with the most popular forms of media consumption. These being Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube and tik tok. I have been in this scene watching and consuming content for years, gaining a significant knowledge of how YouTube and its user generated content is becoming the ‘norm’ and is slowly making the merge to the mainstream scene. I don’t watch television anymore. It’s either YouTube, Netflix or I spend some quality time on Amazon Prime!

My point being that I don’t believe that lecturers know and understand this even though it is their job to tell us the rules of the industry that we then can creatively break and bend to our will. This industry is ever changing and I think that lecturers need to catch up to our understanding of this New Media.