NMIX 4220 Class Assignment

Hello All,

This blog is the beginning of an ongoing assignment for one of my New Media courses this fall. What's new media? Why am I taking this course? Well, let's see...

I am a junior public relations major at the University of Georgia. This past spring, I took a PR Research course where I worked with a group of fabulous girls on a semester-long project about nonprofit organizations' use of social media. This is something that really interests me, so I am trying to get my hands on as much of the up-to-date technology as possible.

Furthermore, the University of Georgia offers the New Media Interdisciplinary Certificate Program. I am beginning the course work to complete this program and earn the New Media Certificate. Completing this program serves as a credential certifying the students' understanding of and proficiency in new media. This certificate is earned while students are completing a degree in his or her chosen field of study, in my case public relations. The certificate further guarantees that a graduate is an expert in the application of technology within a given profession. So why not complete the certificate program?

Now, as someone who in the past has generally not been very good with technology, I expect
the courses in the New Media Program to be both challenging and educational and totally worth it!

Along with taking the introductory course, I am also taking a graphic communication course (that fulfills both a major requirement and a New Media elective requirement), a course on Writing for the World Wide Web (that fulfills an upper division requirement and a New Media elective requirement), and I am taking a New Media seminar. The Director of the New Media Institute, Dr. Scott A. Shamp, is my instructor for both the intro course and my seminar.

As part of this seminar we are required to post at least a paragraph on something new media related each week. Every day we see how technology is changing the world, with new inventions that make life easier, faster modes of communication, improved ideas about making our environment a better place, and so on. My blog will attempt to explore how technology is changing us, both as a society and as individuals, and how we are changing the world.

It is my hope that you will enjoy following my blog and learn something new when you read, so that together we can both become more technowledgeable!

Lindley