Technology and journalism converge at Newseum
Sunday, October 3, 2010
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| The front pages of newspapers after Obama's victory on an inside wall of the Newseum |
Hewlett-Packard and the Newseum will become founding partners and are encouraging the rapidly changing technology and media worlds as they converge.
HP has generously offered $5 million to the Newseum in Washington, D.C. in an effort to create a journalism technology exhibit.
HP has generously offered $5 million to the Newseum in Washington, D.C. in an effort to create a journalism technology exhibit.
The exhibit will incorporate a live "Twitter-like" news feed on touch-activated walls for which museum goers can interact.
This will allow a large array of museum goers to learn about the uses of media and how it affects them in order to spark the interests of all age groups and backgrounds.
This will allow a large array of museum goers to learn about the uses of media and how it affects them in order to spark the interests of all age groups and backgrounds.
Shelby Coffey, a Newseum trustee and former editor of the Los Angeles Times said the exhibit will be designed "so we'll be able to change things within it" as quickly as possibly and in time with the fast-paced changes in technology.
The more I pay attention to news about the media and journalism, the more I see it coinciding with advances in technology. There is an obvious correlation between the two and I found it to be clever that HP has employed their own resources to better educate the population.
HP has realized the growing uses of technology in the media world and this large donation is evidence of just that. McKinney pointed out that "our customers use our technology to access that kind of information."
McKinney hopes the exhibit will represent coverage of breaking news in similar ways that live streams like Twitter have done. At the same time, it will educate viewers about being wary of the accuracy of some social-media sources. Not everything you read on the Internet is true.
This generation of journalists will likely benefit from the exhibit because the majority have grown up using technology to gain a competitive advantage.
More than anything, it's common sense that says journalists are going to be moving right along with advances in technology. It's encouraging to me and I'm sure many other journalists that museums such as the Newseum are staying as relevant as media says they should.
3 comments:
This is a very interesting topic, Sheyenne. I like that you were able to pick a topic that isn't controversial or "hot" and make it interesting. I get tired of always reading about things that are going wrong because of different forms of media ( my own blogs included). Your post helped me put some faith back in the media world again!
I want to go to the Newseum and check out this exhibit! Road trip, BNR?!
I absolutely think we could benefit as a class from visiting this exhibit. There is so much to learn in the subject of journalism and this form of hands-on learning could really benefit students.
Thank you for your compliments, they're much appreciated.
I absolutely think we could benefit as a class from visiting this exhibit. There is so much to learn in the subject of journalism and this form of hands-on learning could really benefit students.
Thank you for your compliments, they're much appreciated.
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