JOUR1111 Week 3

Another lecture, another post! I found this lecture's content to be far more riveting than the content of previous lectures, as I am very much driven by my desire to work in print media. Listening to Skye discuss her accomplished career and her work as a free-lance journalist in Europe has fanned my little flame of hope to do much the same thing.

Writing has always had such a powerful effect on me, and from a young age I have marvelled at various writers' and authors' ability to sculpt and manouver words in such a way that the reader is left with a sense of enlightenment, inspiration, or even pure and simple satisfaction. 

I did get a little lost with talk about hypertext and metadata, although I'm sure this is due to my lack of understanding to do with anything technological (as stated in previous posts) - a problem which I aim to tackle head on in the near future. 

I was quite intrigued when a question was asked about the standard of writing that we are exposed to through Facebook and other such social networking sites, with the notion that anyone who updates a status might consider themselves the writer of something credible and worth the read. It brought to mind an image that I viewed recently on Facebook (no, the irony is not lost on me), which I thought I might share in this post...

...dedicated to all the novice writers out there in the land of social networking; without you, there would be no comparison for quality. 

Until next week... xx