The document discusses the author's initial skepticism towards a multimedia assignment but finding the website entertaining and relevant. It also discusses how the author's generation receives news through social media like Twitter, allowing them to learn news in a more engaging way compared to traditional news channels. The author argues this makes news more accessible to their generation. Finally, it notes how today's pop culture and entertainment news can be related to classic literature, helping make those texts more relevant and relatable to students.

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Emily Barnhill
ENG 230
Professor Richardson
17 November 2011
Multimedia Assignment
Upon hearing this assignment at the beginning of the semester, I will admit
that I dreaded it a bit. It seemed like most of the other projects I have been given
throughout my college career; pointless and a waste of time. I was pleasantly
surprised when I reviewed the website for the assignment. I found it to be so
entertaining and relevant to my interests that I stayed on the site for quite a while
looking through their creative ideas.
What is interesting to point out is that when reading our various texts this
semester, I automatically tried to relate what I was reading to a specific pop
culture reference. The generation that I live in is so media oriented that we often
know what is happening with celebrities as soon as it happened. With social
networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, it is becoming increasingly
common for young adults to find out all of their information solely from these
sites. For example, Twitter has several news programming members (even one
devoted exclusively to Breaking News) that I follow. I find myself quite
frequently filling my mom in on what is going on both nationally and domestically
as she is waiting for her 7 o’clock news to come on.

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Many argue that this is unfortunate and not an adequate form of technology
to receive your news through. I must argue that point; in my opinion I think social
networking sites, Twitter especially, have given people my age the opportunity to
find out what news is happening when they would otherwise not bother to check. I
myself have never turned on a local news channel to catch up on a road that is
closed or a school that is starting a new diet plan. It does not interest me, and if it
was not for Twitter I doubt I would know what is going on throughout the world. I
am by no means saying that the world has to cater to my generation and only give
us news through this type of technology; I simply think it is more beneficial than
detrimental.
It is fascinating to see how relatable today’s entertainment news is to the
works of famous and notable authors of the past. Like I said before, when reading
the texts I was automatically thinking of how similar it was to, for example a Kim
Kardashian divorce scandal (shocker) or a Charlie Sheen rehab stint. This teaches
us that while we read these novels, poems, and articles that we think are pointless;
they can actually be tied into many of the things we are dealing with in our lives
today. Many believe that the writers of the past are irrelevant and not relatable, but
I constantly find myself reading a passage that could be helpful to something I am
going through. The entertainment business is more in the open and popular than
ever, and tying in what people our age are comfortable discussing with important
quotations is immensely helpful and creative.