Griffith University in Australia have added a Twitter component to a journalism course that teaches students how to gather information and relay it. Thus, the course is helping students become micro-blog savvy believing that Twitter is an integral part of the future of news reporting, as proven by its use overseas in Iraq. Reminds me of this Parsons course, which graded students upon their Internet fame through personal branding. The CurrentTV video on their front page is insightful, too.
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Sooner more than later, we’ll all be authors according to this excellent article by SEED magazine. The idea of universal authorship is becoming very real, very soon because as opposed to the 1400′s when a scribe took a year to produce a bible by hand, we can publish our latest thoughts to Twitter in under a minute. If the criteria for being published is 100 or more readers, than it is predicted that all of us will be published authors by 2013 through some outlet of new media. Sheesh, everyone’s a critic…
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