Everybody is talking about President Obama’s e-mail addresses and BlackBerry, but here on the ODU campus, e-mail and smartphones rank low on the list of options that students are willing to take to stay connected to campus events. Organizations offer to reach students through electronic and print media daily, but a recent survey of several students (majoring in communications) says that students still rely on print media and word of mouth for information on campus events.
The University sends out a “Student Announcements” e-mail daily (it usually hits my Blackberry around 1:45AM), which provides a summary of current and upcoming campus events. Not surprisingly, many students set their inboxes to filter this announcement out as spam and find out about campus events through the PAW Events printed flyer posted on bulletin boards, in the Mace and Crown and on the Webb Center and Residential Hall doors. A small number of students (coincidently, the same number of students that responded to the survey through e-mail) said that they find out about campus happenings through Facebook events.
As far as online dating and social networking, many communications students still prefer traditional means. “I meet people through other friends and my classes,” one junior classmate responded.
Students also have mixed views on currently technologies and use of technology on campus. “Unless its new computers in the Art labs, I don’t care,” says one junior art major. Others say that they keep current with new technology by “purchasing the newest iPod.”
To my knowledge, Old Dominion University does not currently have its own Campus events RSS feed available to the public, but it may be too soon to implement such a convenient technology.
Survey conducted through face-to-face interviews and e-mail surveys of past and present classmates.
Friday, February 13, 2009
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