Sunday, February 21, 2016

Digital Media Users: Who is Using and Pay for What? (Ladson)



Ramen Noodle Response

The interviewee in the article about the Ramen Noodle Theory states “the industry outsourced its homework to theorists…” whose prediction of an all-digital future guides many newspapers’ technology driven-strategy; the optimist in me would like to believe that professional journalists in most other situations would want to see primary sources and have reasons why X,Y, or Z decisions are made…I guess in the case of questioning strategy of newspaper executives, journalists may not want to bite the hands that feed them, even if that means the times those hands can feed them will be significantly shortened.

Serious Skimming Response

I think this information is fascinating; and it also makes me feel better about times I tried to go back and read “classics,” but had a difficult time getting into them…maybe it was that my brain had gotten used to nonlinear thinking.

Examining the Third-Person Perception Response

Interesting approach to study the digital economics of newspapers. I agree that newspapers should take value approaches to selling their product to consumers.

How Millennials Get News Connection to Political Polarization Report

This article states that 86 percent of Millennials see diverse opinions through social media; in class a couple of weeks ago we looked at a report that said political polarization is on the rise; this article makes me wonder what percent of the audience in the political polarization report were Millennials. The findings of the political polarization report were reported among liberal/conservative lines and the survey reports the subjects being “adults”, but now I would be interested in seeing the findings reported along age lines.

Digital Natives Prefer Print Response/Connection to Outside Material

The author of this article mentions a “quirky” reason why some college students prefer print – already having texted highlighted and notes in the margins, is that generation more trusting of other people than generations before it? Some generations would want to find out what was important on their own, and not just go along with highlights by someone else in a book. But the larger issue of the story is in line with a New York Times report that the number of bookstores is on the rise.

How Millennials Get the News and Millennials Say News Is Important Connection

Both articles state that Millennials get news on social media outlets, including YouTube, Instagram and Pinterest, what is the definition of news that is being used? Are they talking about “news” about celebrities? I don’t think I’ve ever watched daily “news” on Youtube. Reddit is a little more believable, but you have to go through a lot of clutter to find what would be considered “news”.

The Bad News About the News and Millennials Say News Is Important Connection

The Neiman Lab story (with what I think is a misleading headline), quotes Millennials who seem to think that getting news is their right, while Robert Kaiser in the Brookings Essay states that “there is no right to reliable, intelligent, comprehensive journalism.” The question now becomes, how can we correct the thinking of Millennials?

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