It's hard to be a media student if you dont have an internet connection, access to radio and access to TV. Yes, as superficial as it may sound, all these matter. How can you study the media if you are not exposed to them? There's just a limit to how much theory you can absorb and how much you can imagine. To listen, to watch and to surf provide a different ball game all together. You have to know what you are getting yourself into.
It's not because you want to be cool. There's nothing cool in studying Karl Marx and Habermas. It is because you want to be in the know. You want to know how the world works and to know this, you have to be in tuned with new media. That means, we have to go beyond newspapers and books. We have to think modern. We have to think global.
I shudder at the thought of my student who doesnt have radio, TV and internet. Already, she is giving headaches to her group member because she doesnt know what the rest are talking about as she is not yet tuned to the media student mode. With no access to the above mentioned, she cannot do research, analyse TV programmes and so on. Now, is that an easy way out? To skive?
I dont know.
Shit, man. I have done my best.
Please God, do the rest.
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