{"id":838,"date":"2008-05-20T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2008-05-20T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:08:00","slug":"media-lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/05\/20\/media-lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Lost and Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Alissa Quart–who I’m off to meet with this morning–has the cover story of the Columbia Journalism Review<\/span> this month. (Go Q!) Do check out her piece, “Lost Media, Found Media: Snapshots from the Future of Writing.”<\/a> A chronic bridger, I think I might actually fall somewhere in between. Alissa interviewed a range of old (lost) and new (found) media types, including feministing’s Jessica Valenti, of whom she writes the following:<\/p>\n

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T<\/span><\/span>he young found media types I spoke with tend to focus more on invention than destruction. They were, for the most part, unflaggingly upbeat. Jessica Valenti, for instance, the twenty-nine-year-old founder and editor in chief of the popular feminist blog Feministing, which aggregates news items ranging from feminist responses to the presidential campaign to condom manufacturers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 responses to a new study of young women and STDs. The news hits are all interspersed with tart, partisan, intelligent, and sometimes raw commentary and opinion. Whatever Feministing is\u00e2\u20ac\u201dblog, think tank, digest, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d pages, feminist magazine\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fine example of the new media as an improvement over the old. Unlike the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sections of yore\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwomen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s magazines, or even <\/span>Ms. Magazine<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dFeministing is not shaped by the fear of being offensive or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unrelatable\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the average female reader.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In this way, like some other feminist blogs, it is head and shoulders above almost any writing on women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s issues in mainstream media. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see a lot of nostalgia from young feminists for the time when things were a lot worse,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Valenti, who is tall with black Veronica bangs, and speaks a decibel or two louder than you do. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I studied journalism a bit but I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find my voice until I had a completely open forum in the blogs.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Like Valenti, my younger journalist friends and colleagues imagine a kaleidoscopic future where the hoarier codes of journalism are put to rest: goodbye inverted pyramid, hello a nearly reckless immediacy; goodbye measured commentary, hello pungent or radical or vulgar commentary. Yet beyond style, the new reality is that there is no clear, long-term career plan for Found Media-ites\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor even for most of the rest of us. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in the sort of moment in history that some people will say they were glad to witness, but only twenty years hence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alissa Quart–who I’m off to meet with this morning–has the cover story of the Columbia Journalism Review this month. (Go Q!) Do check out her piece, “Lost Media, Found Media: Snapshots from the Future of Writing.” A chronic bridger, I think I might actually fall somewhere in between. Alissa interviewed a range of old (lost) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21195,21941],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging-life","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}