Sunday, October 4, 2009
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i was reading over other classmates blogs and i came across one that made me think and probably many other people too. Glenn discussed the idea that people like to collect newspaper clippings to remember an event and to keep as a keepsake. When Obama was elected president my brother bought 10 copies of the paper. The same went for when my sister had a baby. My parents bought a couple papers and still have the announcement of their grandson's birth. This is a glitch in the digital system. I still feel like when something important happens people are going to want an actual piece of evidence to remember the event. I don't know exactly what it means but it got me thinking about the route of digital and old form journalism. Are newspapers going to stick around just for this sole purpose or is the digital form going to find someway to cover people's needs for hard copy at certain times in their life.
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In my garage, I have two framed front pages from the New York Times on the days my sons were born.
ReplyDeleteThank you for reminding me of that! As an *answer* if you will, when my uncle and godfather died--he lived in NJ--last winter, I was able to post a comment to his online obituary that my aunt and other family members can share. The site can stay up as long as family member support it.
So, I think we will still have media memorablia, it will just take a different form.
Like you, Marisa, I wonder how we will save these new forms--if indeed they're meant to be saved. Maybe they are just meant to be shared?
Christine M. Tracy
I like the conversation here. I was also able to post poems via online obituaries when each of my grandparents died. It meant a lot to me and I can still view it whenever I want to even though it's been a few years. This technology definitely has something to offer that a piece of paper in a frame does not.
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