I found yesterday's lecture really interesting; it was all about text in the media. I suppose it is obvious that text plays a huge role when it comes to journalism, but often I forget just how important it is. For example, even just key words that are used to identify articles on the internet (or 'labels' for any of these blog posts). If people are going to search for something, those are the words that will lead them to it, and I guess I forgot how powerful just one word can be. I guess the lecture was also a lot about grabbing the readers' attention using your words, and appealing to the mass whilst at the same time being concise.
Personally, I have always thought that text, and even just words, are extremely important to society. Especially after having read George Orwell's 1984. It scares me to think that a whole society could be reduced and contained by eliminating their ability to communicate. To not be able to express how they are feeling and what is happening in the world around them. In that way I hate to use 'text language' - gr8, brb. They have real proper words for those abbreviations, guys. Use them. Honestly, after years of texting you should be able to text fast enough that having to use seven extra characters will make less than a second of difference. And just imagine if you couldn't describe how the government was treating you badly, not just because you weren't allowed to, but you didn't know how to. Words are good, extremely important. Learn to use them.
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