Today I ventured into the "Experts weigh the Pros and Cons of Social Media" blog and connected with two of the bloggers. I am somewhat in agreement that with so much information bouncing around that erroneously facts being accepted as fact. In addition, in the quest to be "first" results in the sacrifice of being "right." There is an underlying fear that news consumers will focus on "infotainment" and disregard serious coverage of critical issues.
However, I was optimistic when I looked at those who commented and found one by a "ntindall" that lead me to a blog by journalism teachers from colleges and universities around the country. The blog is AEJMC: Social Media in the Classroom http://aejmc.blogspot.com/ that discusses and shares best practices in the area of journalism studies. Interesting blog by Terri Thornton who questioned a panel of experts as to "how will people know what is a journalistic story and what is a paid, biased, or fictitious post?" One answer was to encourage journalistic literacy programs.
If that is to be the case, in addition to IL and DL we will now include JL....
Loraine
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