We were appointed two articles to read in class. The first one was a written interviewed that featured Richard A.Lanham, he spoke about the mass amount of information available to us and how we don't know how to handle it. The overload of information is like drinking from a fire hose, it becomes too much handle and then it becomes a waste. So on the interview Lanham speaks about how to take in all the information and also how to get as much out of it as possible but though he gives tips; he does mention trying to contain all the information given to us is nearly impossible. Especially with the massive amount already there with tons more coming in rapidly.
The second article kind of touched based on similar issues; was spoke more on how students are limiting themselves on the amount of information we are possible of obtaining. Dr.Nichols also mentions how students aren't the only one to blame for that. Teacher tend to restrict the source students are allowed to use which sometimes lends them to use unreliable sources.
The excerpt from the article " The Long Trail" is about a speaker comparing his limited media experiences as an adolescence in the seventies and eighties to unlimited options of the common day adolescence of the twentieth century. He sums up both experiences in two words, niches and hits. Meaning, in the seventies and eighties technology wasn't as advance as it was today and there was very limited options for mass communication. Therefore, in order to reach the big screen or any screen for that matter, what you did had to be major or in others words, a hit. But now that the things like the internet, cellphones, and game system have allowed the media to become more accessible reaching the big screen is at the click of a button. Now a days one doesn't have to be very talented in order to get screen time, anyone can do.And instant fame is not the only thing offer, the twentieth century technology as offered unlimited options of music, shopping, and entertainment. The peo...
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