I was extremely fortunate to have
had some practice and university courses in high school. Where I went there was
this program called QUTeach where in Years 11 and 12 a small group of students
could study 4 units of the QUT teaching course. I was one of them. One of the
topics we studied was about ICTs and what their impact now meant for the
future. During this unit we studied Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, so I had
pre-knowledge to this week’s topic.
What I found interesting this
time was how the web could negatively affect the news. I’m one of those people
who learn about things (like the news) usually from word of mouth and
investigate afterwards (if I feel like it, which I recognise as something to
work on if I want to become a journalist). I'm also weird in the sense that I like to have things in my hand rather than simply glimpse on the internet and therfore do not read online books (unless for assignments), barely watch movies or TV shows (unless they're Japanese and therefore unpurchaseable in Australia), and mostly avoid downloading or buying anything off the internet period. So I, in all likelihood, would not
pay to read news on the internet. I’m confident most of the people I know would
be the same.
This is further evidenced by this poll:
To me, the web is this fantastic
device that pretty much allows anything to happen. Most knowledge I’ve gained
or skills utilised and put into practice were self-taught with the internet as
my guide, not school. I was once extremely ignorant of the world (I was very biased against
America) but through the internet I made friends and found idols who opened my
mind to an array of perspectives and cultures that have shaped who I am as a
human being. To think that Web 3.0 would localise all the news and stories and
not necessarily cover topics broadly and think of the “big picture” terrifies
me. I want to fight ignorance, and Web 3.0 seems to work counterpoint to what I
want. How is it my news then?
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