Comments on: Why I think the generational nonsense is so much BS http://www.tubotu.com/?p=49 Computer-assisted reporting, journalism, and the stuff on either side. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:10:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: yelvington http://www.tubotu.com/?p=49&cpage=1#comment-2183 yelvington Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:31:31 +0000 http://www.tubotu.com/?p=49#comment-2183 Generalizations are always ... just generalizations. There's crushing statistical evidence of a generational shift from print to digital media, and away from single-source pull to multisource "stumbled upon" information consumption, but you can always find individuals who don't fit the pattern. And as you observe, a lot of people who don't fit the general societal pattern self-select into journalism programs. You may wind up with a bunch of students whose heads are in some ways stuck in the 1920s when mass media, mass production and mass merchandising were ascendant, being taught by fiftysomething professors whose heads are in the decentralized peer-to-peer 21st century. Much against my will, I've become a fiftysomething old fart. It's better than the alternative. I try to compensate by being a twittering, facebooking, always-on, open-source citizen media old fart. Generalizations are always … just generalizations. There’s crushing statistical evidence of a generational shift from print to digital media, and away from single-source pull to multisource “stumbled upon” information consumption, but you can always find individuals who don’t fit the pattern.

And as you observe, a lot of people who don’t fit the general societal pattern self-select into journalism programs. You may wind up with a bunch of students whose heads are in some ways stuck in the 1920s when mass media, mass production and mass merchandising were ascendant, being taught by fiftysomething professors whose heads are in the decentralized peer-to-peer 21st century.

Much against my will, I’ve become a fiftysomething old fart. It’s better than the alternative. I try to compensate by being a twittering, facebooking, always-on, open-source citizen media old fart.

]]> By: Ryan Sholin http://www.tubotu.com/?p=49&cpage=1#comment-2172 Ryan Sholin Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:18:51 +0000 http://www.tubotu.com/?p=49#comment-2172 Of course. I'm not making any rules, just floating an idea, a way to make sense out of the hard lines drawn in the sand in Tampa. You can't spell "generalization" without "generation," right? The exceptions are everywhere, especially in J-schools. Of course. I’m not making any rules, just floating an idea, a way to make sense out of the hard lines drawn in the sand in Tampa. You can’t spell “generalization” without “generation,” right?

The exceptions are everywhere, especially in J-schools.

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