News.
Twitter might seem inane and pointless to some but at Australia's Griffith University, Journalism students are now required to study the micro-blogging platform for reals.
The Twitter course was implemented because "Some students' tweets are not as in depth as you might like" said senior lecturer Jacqui Ewart. Of course Ewart fails to take into account training for the bong olympics, toga party dressing dilemmas and thinly veiled flirting (or the three pillars of Academia) as reasons for shallow tweeting.
Encouragingly for the future of Australian Journalism most students weren't even aware of Twitter, as Ewart explains: "Quite surprisingly, a lot of students didn't know what Twitter was. There were a couple of really vocal students who were saying they couldn't believe we were using it and thought it was a waste of time,". Yay for progressive young minds or maybe it's just a Griffith thing?
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Comments.
This may have something to do with most Australian uni students not having 'bong olympics' (beer or pot, although getting smashed or baked at least twice a week is common; bong olympics is a very American tradition), toga parties (another very American tradition probably centred on frats/sororities, which we don't have), and... no, I guess thinly veiled flirting is universal.
Still, what a stupid university subject to have to take.
at 11:41pm
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