{"id":1580,"date":"2013-11-22T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2013-11-22T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:00:20","slug":"communicating-media-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/2013\/11\/22\/communicating-media-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Communicating through media of your day"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was not my intended topic for today\u2019s post, but with so much history this week I thought it was a necessary post. A couple of months ago I wrote about creating and using Twitter <\/a>and what it means to us in the free-choice learning field. With the 24-hour news cycle, social media, and even blogs we get news quickly. We are constantly connected through our computers and smart phones. How were people connected to news 150 years ago? 50 years ago? In those years two significant events happened that changed our nation\u2019s history: the Gettysburg Address and President Kennedy\u2019s assassination.<\/p>\n

This past week PBS aired a program about Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address<\/a>. The focus was on how he used the telegraph to connect to the country, how the telegraph allowed him to \u201cfeel the pulse\u201d of the country and ultimately shape the words he used at Gettysburg. Lincoln used the telegraph as a tool for taking in information and for sending information out. Lincoln used the newest, quickest way of communication in his day just as we all use Facebook and Twitter for news and information today. One of the speakers on the show even said, \u201cLincoln would have been big time on Twitter\u201d.<\/p>\n

And what if Twitter existed 50 years ago? NPR drew me in this morning using the Twitter handle @todayin1963 to live tweet<\/a> the events of the day President Kennedy was pronounced dead. The tweets, however, are ongoing as news continues to develop as though we\u2019re using Twitter in 1963. Would this media source have changed the facts (accurate or not) people heard that day or would it just be a different media source to hear it through?<\/p>\n

How we receive our news and how we share it is ever-changing. We\u2019ll always have a new technology that lets us get that much closer to what\u2019s happening in our world. For Lincoln\u2019s generation is was the telegraph and for my generation it\u2019s Twitter.<\/p>\n

As a side note, you can follow the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum on Twitter @ALPLM, where they often post Lincoln quotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was not my intended topic for today\u2019s post, but with so much history this week I thought it was a necessary post. A couple of months ago I wrote about creating and using Twitter and what it means to us in the free-choice learning field. With the 24-hour news cycle, social media, and even… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5614],"tags":[548,784,495,493],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-communication","tag-communication","tag-history","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}