Hi blogosphere! I’m Justine Fields, a sophomore Communication major and Information Science minor. I’m part of Kappa Delta Sorority and the sorority house is where I currently reside. I love living in Ithaca, because it is an extremely vegetarian-friendly town and I am indeed a vegetarian. On the entirety of my hometown, Long Island, there is only one completely vegetarian restaurant. Besides being an herbivore, I absolutely love music and because of that, I’m very involved with the Concert Commission, and every so often I’ll write an article for the Arts Section in the Sun.
In fact, I spend a good portion of my time on the Internet reading about music. I’m a huge fan of several music blogs and sites, which include brooklynvegan.com, Idolator.com and The New York Times Arts Section. This leads me to my Internet-related phenomenon. Although I can get the New York Times for free on campus, I prefer to wait until I return home after classes to read the Arts section online. I normally hate reading online, but when it comes to getting musically informed, I’d take my computer screen over the physical paper any day. This doesn’t just apply to The New York Times, but also to other music media outlets, such as Spin Magazine, or Rolling Stone Magazine. I receive both magazines several days before the articles are put up online, yet the magazines pile up while I scroll through the websites. To put it simply, why do I wait all day to read online, the exact same thing I could have read hours earlier in a newspaper or magazine?
My phenomenon can be categorized under Wallace’s World Wide Web online space. www.nytimes.com, www.spinmag.com, and www.rollingstone.com are all commercial domains where the daily New York Times, and the monthly Spin and Rolling Stone are issued and archived electronically. These sites can be accessed by anyone, though The New York Times website requires a subscription to read most of the articles. Despite the fact that The New York Times site is not free, for some inexplicable reason, I can access every article without paying a penny. I guess I’m just lucky! My thought as to why I prefer to read these articles on my computer screen over reading them in the physical publications is that accessing the music news through pixels rather than particles makes me feel more tech-savvy, but truthfully, I feel that subconsciously there has to be more to it.
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I thought you brought up a great topic! It was really interesting to learn that you enjoyed scrolling through all of your favorite publications online versus in print. However, I feel really strongly about just the opposite. I find it really difficult to enjoy anything that I have to read on a screen. I feel like when I have the hard copy of a magazine in my hands that somehow the words are more important or carry a greater weight. I think I have that feeling because since the beginning of the internet explosion our generation was/is always told to be careful of what you read on the internet…because anyone can be their own author. I suppose that message of forewarning is too heavily ingrained in me now, so even when I approach even the most notable periodicals I am left feeling like the paper version would have had more of an impact. There is no doubt in what you said, there is definitely something subconscious going on.
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