Publishing a paper without a computer, digital camera, or social networking device? Oh, the terror! Last week, a Florida Atlantic University journalism class did just that. And survived.
The program, All on Paper, sent students back to the the technologies of ancient history (the 1970s), forcing them to use typewriters, manual cameras and long division. The assisting old-school reporters, meanwhile, found they had forgotten the majority of their past skills.
As a recent grad of U of O’s journalism school (where professors urged us to tweet/blog constantly), I can sympathize with the students’ confusion with the classics. The idea of manually cutting and pasting articles onto pages and developing and resizing each photo makes me shamefully realize how dependent I am on my tangled up pile of technological devices.
Nonetheless, the group produced a successful paper, mixing crookedly pasted articles with ads mentioning Facebook. Check it out here. Timewarp! Then, of course, they turned the All on Paper process into a short digital movie:
Thanks to commenter Graham for the blog tip!
I can’t believe that journalism school still exists!
Anyone going to school for journalism really should ask for a refund. They’ve been sold a bill of goods.
Dang dog, how’d they justify that text so perfectly? typesetting?