How I found Digital Culture

I am so close to the end of my first year at University, and thus that means I am coming to the end of these blog posts and my digital culture classes. (Sad face).

I chose to study digital culture before I even began university, and I'm very glad I did. I picked it because it sounded very technologically based, and technology is such a big part of everyones lives now, especially as I am training to become a magazine journalist. 

I did think that the class would be more based among journalists, i.e. news websites, new applications, how to blog etc. And although we did learn about these things, I do wish more of the topics we focussed on were more journalism based. However, most of the things we learnt about I found very interesting and I am glad that I took this class.

I really enjoyed that we were assessed via blog posts. This is because as I am training to become a magazine journalist I think it is really useful that I know how to blog properly, and this is the perfect way for me to learn what and what not to do. As well as this, the blogs were done weekly, which made for less work at the end of the year (ha! We still had loads.) However doing a blog post per week really meant that I could keep up with my work. 

Whilst doing my blog posts, I found it very useful reading other students blog posts in order to understand how to write to a 'blogger' audience. I think I got the gist of it in the end! I think it will really help me with my future career and I would love to blog for a magazine company one day!

In conclusion, I really enjoyed my class time in Digital Culture lessons. Especially work shops over lectures. Some things we learnt about were not particularly 'my thing', however I do feel I have more of a knowledge in the latest technology now, and I think that's important when you want to continue in a career that will always involve it.

Thanks Gavin, it's been a blast.