Audience participation

As the year went on and we learned more things in Theater 103, I started to realize that some of the things that we learn about in class connect to what I need to be learning about regarding my major. I'm majoring in journalism and I hope to get a job as a reporter for some type of newspaper or magazine when I graduate. My professors are constantly telling us that we are in the middle of a digital revolution. The iPad is just one of the inventions that are going to drastically change my profession. The physical newspapers are beginning to die to make way for online newspapers. But since everything is going online, that calls for more audience participation. Which is where what we learn in Theater 103 comes in. At the Tank, the audience was able to participate in the performance by controlling the Sketch-up designs on the screen. That's kind of similar to the way the audience participates when they want to get their news. Yahoo News is one of the many companies that have taken advantage of this idea of audience participation. They are going to allow their audience to participate in the way they obtain their news in the future. When you view on article online, it lets you comment on it, doesn't it? That's one example of how the audience can participate in the news they get. Now with the Internet, you can blog about the different news stories you read. Once again, another example of audience participation. So basically, I just see that the world is breaking apart from the days when someone stopped at 7-11 to get a NewsDay in the morning. The people now want to go onto the Internet to actively participate in the news they are consuming.