{"id":616,"date":"2015-05-11T23:26:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T06:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/?p=616"},"modified":"2015-05-11T23:26:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T06:26:43","slug":"students-are-being-trained-for-jobs-that-do-not-yet-exist-dr-anthony-fellow-january-26th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/2015\/05\/11\/students-are-being-trained-for-jobs-that-do-not-yet-exist-dr-anthony-fellow-january-26th-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"“Students are being trained for jobs that do not yet exist” Dr. Anthony Fellow (January 26th, 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lecture Series: Dr. Anthony Fellow (January 26, 2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the course of the next few years, things students learn in their second year of university will be outdated by the time they graduate, Dr. Anthony Fellow, chair and professor of communications at Cal State Fullerton, warned yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very difficult for a professor today to be able to tell students what jobs are available because things are changing so fast,\u201d Fellow said, \u201cIn the short time our media is going to look nothing like it is today.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his talk at the Pacifica institute titled \u201cThe Future of Media\u201d Dr. Fellow discussed the ways in which technology has affected media in the past, present and the ways in which it will be affected it in the coming years.<\/p>\n

An expert on American Media History and Politics, he started the talk off with a brief history of American mass media, starting with the colonial times. He discussed the culture of colonial coffee houses that were a hub for political discussion and compared them to the modern \u201ccoffee houses\u201d that exist online on social networking sites.<\/p>\n

After briefly touching upon the introduction of the penny press of 1833, he moved on to talk about the advent of radio and TV, both of which marked the new era of electronic broadcasting and significantly changed how political campaigns were conducted.<\/p>\n

With the introduction of the computer and internet, he said, the media landscape was once again reformed.<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Fellow, the impact of this technology on the political, economic and social fabric of the United States can be seen in the following ways:<\/p>\n

\u2022 A positive impact of technology is that people are calling for increased government transparency through the use of social media much like what took place during the Arab Spring.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Negative impact of technology is evident in the increase in bloggers whose facts are difficult to verify.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The things students learn in their second year of university will be outdated by the time they graduate.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Students are being trained for jobs that do not yet exist.<\/p>\n

Dr. Fellow added that the future of Media according to a recent study done by the Annenberg school of USC suggests that in the next five years only four print newspapers will survive.<\/p>\n

Other changes anticipated by the study:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Blogs will be the first place that news breaks.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wikipedia is going to become the newspaper of record.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cable news will become the entertainment medium. The Daily Show with John Stewart will become the most important cable show.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fox News will continue to carry the banner for the right.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Local TV news will be replaced by public access television delivered over the web.<\/p>\n

In light of these changes that are anticipated, Dr. Fellow said it is very likely \u201cNewspapers are going the way of the dinosaur and the press as we know it will vanish.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lecture Series: Dr. Anthony Fellow (January 26, 2012) In the course of the next few years, things students learn in their second year of university will be outdated by the time they graduate, Dr. Anthony Fellow, chair and professor of communications at Cal State Fullerton, warned yesterday. \u201cIt is very difficult for a professor today […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}