First Post - Week 1

Before my first digital media class I thought of the term "digital media" to mean the entire culture of communication through technology. Any kind of messages created with computers and other digital devices would be considered digital media. After my first class I saw that digital media is basically the most powerful type of media with widespread use of social-media such as Facebook and twitter. Digital media is the becoming the most predominant media source in the world. People are putting away their telephones and televisions and becoming more in-tuned to the internet and its social networking or video blog sites.

An RTA student should take a digital media course because it is very fun and at the same type he or she will learn many different tools for many different digital mediums that will enable them to have skills in a growing industry. Along with this, an RTA student will learn and master the social networking aspects, working with different types of digital mediums; i.e. visual, video, web (photoshop, aftereffects, and html).

There is no doubt this course is valuable and very diverse. The planet and global village are becoming more and more digitally oriented, and a course like this teaches a student the basic principles of this field of knowledge!