Statement of purpose

My experience this year at SOC has changed my perspective on the Internet, transformed and expanded the uses I make of it and deepened my interest in discovering what it has to offer to me as an individual but mostly as a journalist.

I will use this blog to post the results of my research on how foreign media are using Web applications to not only report stories but to enhance them in a way that they can only do online. It’s because of this class that I have discovered some Spanish media use Twitter feeds to engage more followers. Others have Facebook pages too. I want to go further than that and research the use of digital storytelling techniques and the conection between their print and digital editions, in the case of newspapers; the opportunity to listen to radio stations online -including old content- and video clips from television linked to live broadcasts or the promotion of content online both through the Web and TV itself. 

I have seen in the past that advances proven successful in the United States would be adopted abroad in 4-6 years, but now it is taking even less and I would like to research how it’s happening –for example, the influence of international consulting firms that work on redesigns for online publications in different countries, or the networking done through journalism international organizations.

I want my blog to be coherent with “New Media.” I will practice all the techniques that I have learnt in the past and will discover through my research. I will also bring stories and examples of what foreign media are publishing to share it with you.

~ by onewayoranother on June 3, 2008.