“Curiosity killed the cat”!
Literally, this is what happens when you need to ask something important, but can’t! That was because former CNN journalist, Octavia Nasr, upon her entrance into the lecture she was going to give in LAU, warned us not to!
Due to the CNN controversy that she stirred and that she was fired because of, on Tuesday November 9, we thought that we would get some answers about this issue. However, the lecture took another turn: one about social media.
If someone doesn’t know her, just by observing her they would realize that she has unconditional love for social media, particularly for one thing: twitter!! The way she talks about it, the way she keeps on checking her phone for tweets (she said she was a blackberry person by the way!), and the way she loves meeting and associating with people via twitter, shows all of this!
Her positive attitude, vibrant tone, and constant jokes made the lecture a whole lot more fun than I actually expected. She didn’t give us a moral lesson or lecture, but rather, tried to clarify the way we think about the “new” social media, like blogs, twitter, flickr, facebook…etc…
Octavia Nasr, talking with someone from the audience, with a big smile!
As part of the LAU Social class, i understand the importance of the “new” social media, and I fell in love with it recently (i mean ever since i took this class!). So having Octavia Nasr on that day speaking about this topic, I could somehow relate to what she was saying (if she came a couple of weeks earlier, I guarantee you I would have been alienated!). She made me realize, as I’m sure she made others realize too, that we need to evolve. Old things or means (traditional media) are going to remain ofcourse, and they will be forever respected, but we need change in order to bring change. And her speech also encouraged for the removal of barriers or “red lines”, saying that these would only limit us even further, and push us apart.
**For all those reading this post and are interested for the whole live coverage of the lecture, link to http://www.lausocial.com/Live.html
I loved her conference, and I loved the way she made us realize how important we could be, since “every person can impact this world”, quoted from her! I hope I could meet up with her again someday, in a less formal setting. Maybe then, I could ask her all the questions that I wanted to, but hesitated!!
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