This week Rory Cellan-Jones, THE technology correspondent for the BBC came to talk to us about social networking and journalism.
A matter of years ago, the technology was minimal, and in particular that he himself had no prior interest in the wide word of tech-not dissimilar to myself. His interest grew as the ‘revolution’ / ‘evolution’ took off in the late nineties and early naughties. Rory is an example to us all because he’s a journalist who embraces change, not an old dinosaur who is happy with a typewriter and telegraph.
His career shows technology is evolving at a mighty rate. Dr Claire Wardle touched upon this in her lecture, by showing us the amount of detailed search engines exists and continue to be superseded by others it’s only a matter of time untill Twitter and Facebook are both superseded. For example, will Plaxo take off?
For Rory, blogging and social networking is a chance to converse with his audience, sharing and discovering information on his ‘patch.’ This is a lesson I must adopt myself. By referring to times when people have disagreed with his reporting, they’ve been able to do so using social technology, especially Twitter to express these, Rory highlights how rewarding interacting with the audience is. Simply, he show’s that you must invite the audience to converse for your own journalism o develop. His success and popularity is down to his expertise in embracing social technology.
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