Blogging Manifesto by Wilhelmina Maboja

Every writer's interests,musings and sub-conscious concoctions are somehow reflected in what they write. As a young journalism student in a tiny area called Grahamstown, South africa, I want to cater to my fellow small-town-dream-big future journalists. At the same time, there are thousands of interests and expectations that the journalism student has that cannot always be catered for. The blog name Revolution Readers embodies the young student "journo" who does not limit themselves to reading only news texts, fiction, biographies, magazines and others but attempts to place their finger on every pulse of various reading texts. As a writer, I see the world as a collage of all sorts of images, people and stories that range from the macabre to the down right side-splittingly humorous. The thread Revolution Readers will follow is that of perception of the media and media texts, among other themes. Because the media is made up of a bunch of witty, cut-throat and sarcastic bunch of individuals (affectionately known as journalists, of course) the internet is the perfect source where individuals of the global crucible smelt together. With a society driven by consumerism, babies in prams throwing rattles at unsuspecting bystanders and instant gratification, it is enough to pull one's hair out when a tabloid channel is the replacement of a news channel. The Revolution Reders's blog will not only read news texts but also stick a scrutinising eye in as many magazines, novels and newspapers as possible. The aim of the blog is to show a revolutionised way of not only thinking but of media consumption. It is expected that we are to willingly construct ourselves into walking and talking information consumers but I want to remind budding journalists out there that there exists another side of the microphone-brandishing and notebook-scribbling individuals at a press conference, cell phone always on standby. Much of our media consumption is done on a large scale at the peak of our smouldering youthful selves before it becomes centred and customised according to whether you're a Bloody Mary and biscuit sort of person in the morning. This also means that much of one's perception of the internal and external world is shaped during this time period amid the turbulence of terrorist attacks, anti-clockwise flushing toilets and boring lectures. With websites such as Twiter and Eblogger, revolutionary readers such as ourselves are slowly demolishing archaic concepts of information consumption and revolutionising our world as young and critical future journalists or simply students with a broader knowledge beyond Perez Hilton and price hikes. With knowledge of the past, present and a vague but vivid idea of the future, this marks the beginning of a reader revolution.
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