Chapter 8 , 10

Chapter 8, 10

Chapter 8

I think that printed news will only be around as long as the older generation of people are.  Eventually, smart phones and Ipad-like devices will become affordable to the point that the majority will be able to own one.  I wouldn’t know what to say about more rural areas of the country where WiFi hotspots are limited.  As segmented as the media industry already is, I feel that blogs have also broken the segments into even smaller pieces.  For any given topic, there seems to be individual bloggers who are followed more widely than most people.  What I’ve noticed is that some people tend to go directly to those individual’s blogs for what they want to perceive as the truth.  But then these bloggers also have to turn to primary sources for their information.  Therefore it’s smart on the newspaper industry’s part on hiring journalists to blog for them.            

Chapter 10

The most significant thing I’ve learned from this chapter was the whole Google book scanning project.  I was actually not aware of that.  Other than that I find it funny how the book challenge ordeals always has the effect of making a book more widely known and encouraging people’s curiosity to read them.  Their increasing success then leads for further films and TV shows to be produced which completely defeats the purpose of the book challenge.  What’s even more funny is when these motion pictures are released, they’re often advertised as being highly controversial which attracts more audiences due to their implied objectionable content.