in nancy van leuven's PR class, it was suggested that papers are becoming less necessary in preparing us for PR careers. projects on social media sites, such as youtube or a blog (like this one!), are skills that can be applied to public relations.
now, the english major side of me really likes piling over old books and researching historically significant literature, and doesn't want knowledge of flickr to be a necessary skill set for her job. but there is a way i can cheat myself into liking it.
i love words. how they are used, what they are supposed to mean, what they really mean, when they are said, and who they are said by. learning how to communicate professionally or otherwise has so many more platforms with the advent of the internet. there's facebook, twitter, what comes up when you google your name, your e-mail address, your blog, and so on. they all have are a different genre of self-projection, with their own styles and sense of rules.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I think it's a real both/and scenario, rather than either/or. In our journalism interviews this month, we've talked a lot about how 21st Century journalists need to not only be solid at traditional researching and writing, but also need to be able to blog, podcast, shoot/edit video...My guess is that the 21st Century PR person needs to do everything the 20th Century practitioner was doing PLUS all the new goodies like Flikr, Twitter, etc...
ReplyDeleteI'm having a hard time transfering so much of my life to the internet. In high school I had a LiveJournal or DeadJournal or whatever was current, and then MySpace would eventuall follow. Now that I'm in college I don't use anything... I struggle to remember my Twitter, I barely even acknowledge my Facebook, and this damn blogging thing is something I have to trick myself into.
ReplyDeleteI love words, I just prefer to write them out and then at most type them into Word. Beyond that I feel like I may be one of those left behind.