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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