On Monday March 30 in the COFAC hall at 7 p.m. the professor of journalism and public relations Mohammad Siddiqi, shared his results and studies on the digitalization on media content, readership and formats. In his speech is mentioned that blogging, websites and different social medias play a huge role in how we receive our news. He said, that more people now turn to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and other social media sites and which these platforms are creating a decrease in traditional media such as newspapers.
Also in his lecture he mentioned how by revising the journalism courses/ curriculums, it would allows to teach students about popular technologies, social media skills, and multimedia skills. Siddiqi feels that these courses will be a great change and helpful for students,the world is changing everyday, and so is technology every minute a new technology or concept is created or thought of, Siddiqi added that these new ideas create a threat to traditional media such as newspapers, he also feels that newspapers still hold a huge purpose in society.
Being in Digital Media Journalism, and learning about different social media’s such as digital visualizations. It shows how there are many sites and medias in which someone can learn about the world around them, and actually see what they are interested about. Such as the other day, I was interested in seeing data about the oceans. I found a website that we learned about in class and with this site it allowed me to see fish patters, migration patterns of different fish species. I feel this was beneficial because I could actually see the data rather than trying to interpret.
I support Prof. Siddiqi with allowing more of these digital classes for students to learn more about different sites that can benefit them in positive ways. Since the world is becoming technology based, I feel that he is on the right track on having these classes to help benefit students for today, and for the future.
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