Starting my first week at the University of Washington, Masters of Communication in Digital Media program has proved a few things. First, I am not nearly engaged with the social media world as I thought. Second, I never realized how much blogging and twittering I set up for others and practically none for myself.
With that said, here is the start of me engaging in it for myself and for my masters degree in Communication. But not just any masters degree... One that has to be explained to anyone that asks what I am getting my degree in. Digital Media. What is Digital Media? Wikipedia's definition is "digital media usually refers to electronic media that work on digital codes." And it continues on with words like binary numeral system, processing machines, arbitrary sequence, digital information processing machines and so on. That would loose anyone's interest and probably confuse them even further.
Digital Media refers to any form of media or communication such as journalism, tv, phones, radio, internet, blogging, twitter, social media, podcasts, you tube, texting, instant messenger, etc... as long as it contains a digital code. Which pretty much encompasses almost all forms of media and communication today. We are getting closer to each other without having to even know one another. I can have a few hundred facebook friends and never even meet them in person if I wanted. And that is Digital Media... in a shorthand form. The new wave of Communication Technologies that are changing the way we interact everyday. And it keeps changing rapidly so in order to keep up, you have to embrace it fully.
Welcome aboard!
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