"Did you just compare my love of Macs to the Jonestown Massacre?"

Wicked.

My first project for digital media and it's making a blog. Can it get more awesome than this? Oh, it most definitely cannot, my friends. My friends meaning... Lori.

If you're confused by my title then let me explain. I like putting quotes in my blog titles of things that I think are funny, ironic, interesting, etc. Anything really. Mostly, though, I like putting quotes in that I hear in real life. I picked that up from another blogger a while ago.

This quote came about after a long discussion with my boyfriend about how I got into Macs.

He's a PC person, I'm a Mac fan.

It causes friction.

But enough about that. I have work to do. So, the first thing I have to write about, according to the assignment, is what my impressions of the term "digital media" were before the first class. That's actually an interesting question. I guess before class I never really thought about digital media as whole like that. I generally just thought about the specific parts within it. Music, television, text messages, PDFs, games, email, animation, video, radio, blogs, e-books... All of those things I never really thought about all together.

After the first lecture, however, my impressions changed completely. Instead of focusing on just one thing it was like I realized how broad the spectrum was, and how interconnected everything in digital media seemed to be. It was like zooming out from the tiny picture, and finally seeing the big picture.

Digital media, and learning about digital media, is such an important part of RTA. I mean, it's media. Radio and television are both major forms of media. And, like I said before, everything in the digital media world seems to be interconnected. Which means that if we're learning about radio and television, we're going to have to learn about EVERYTHING to do with both of those things.

Alright, I think I covered everything I had to in this post.

On a final note, though, I just want to add that I am so happy to have chosen this program. I love RTA. I definitely feel like I belong here, which is great.

That's all for now. I have a chapter in my HUGE textbook for Broadcast History that needs to be finished, and all of my short stories to read for english. Might as well do it now. Welcome to university...

Cheers,

Shelly