final blog post
I think that the most important thing I learned in this course was the variety and diversity of emerging technologies and the issues surrounding them, including regulation, evolution, and accessibility. It is no doubt important to stay up to date with services that might make our lives easier, particularly because we are college educated and are the generation that is growing up with this necessity for recognizing the constant evolution and its impact on society. I think this is particularly effective through the real world application (website creation, blogging, podcast, etc.) of these technologies.
I appreciate that your focus is online news and political blogging because personally, I never would have skimmed the surface of that realm. However, I would have liked to spend more time on services that we use as college students, such as social networking, and the impact is has globally, culturally, and interpersonally. It would have been just one more way that this course is directly relevant to our lives. Perhaps a larger discussion not just on what they are, but also how it is reforming the way we interact (we did touch on this but maybe more on our increased dependency?).
For me, the least interesting topic was the digital divide. I wholeheartedly agree that access is a very large issue and substantial in the discussion and adoption of new technologies. However, it is hard to talk about it without it being a little dry with numbers and the same rehashed cliche answers (race, economics). At least for me, this was already understood as a problem.
