University of jordanZhang tobo, director of the institute of journalism, was a freshman at the new congress for students in class 2023. Here is the full text:
Ladies and gentlemen: good afternoon
First of all, i would like to welcome all new students from all parts of the world and from all parts of the country, and to congratulate you! From now on, you all have a name in common: red news
Welcome to rehab. Thank you for choosingPublic information disseminationProfessional. It is also normal for you to come back with a heavy expectation and enter the news and communications profession with a weightlessness of confusion, in which you have a purely personal imagination and a lot of social complications. The key is to start a new journey in life. In this age of interconnecting things, how can the best path to ideal be found through professional navigation? How can we build effective links with the world? How can professional moats be re-formed in an era of liquidization of values and knowledge flow? A series of confusions and questions to open。
Zhang tobo, dean of the faculty of journalism of the university of jordan, is a freshman。
The rapid and iterative revolution in communication technology has profoundly rewrited the way the world exists and spread has been placed at the centre of human life. In this era of flow of everything, the journalism profession has been pushed to the heart of the currents as never before. Your choice of a journalism profession is unprecedented, and the challenges are reciprocal and critical to how to manage them. Since communication is so important, we should not worry about the way forward, let alone flatten the profession from the door of “currentism” or narrow the career。
Some have defined the twenty-first century as an era of “currentism”, where “immediateism” means that people will shift their focus to the moment, to the experience on the ground and to what is of greatest interest. Our culture becomes a state of chaos that everyone is trying to capture. People are interested in the sight of the moment and not in the clouds of tomorrow. The main cause of this currentist predicament has nothing to do with the diffusion of the technological revolution. According to hayes, information technology has given rise to “super-focus”, which, in his view, is characterized by a rapid shift of focus in different operations, a preference for diversified information flows, a search for highly stimulating things and a low degree of tolerance for monotonous states. The super-focus is only on the present and on oneself, ignoring the existence of others and losing interest in public issues. Han bing cheol believes that digital networking and socialization do not make it easier for people to meet others; rather, it is more convenient for people to pass through strangers and others, ignore their presence, and find like-minded ones, leading to a narrower vision of our experience. And so, "others disappear."。
There are now many university students who spend much of their energy on short-term benefits, with their insides, their inners, their short-sightedness on long-line issues, and many heads of universities, with their students immersed in the pursuit of beautiful indicators and decent success. In fact, true university education is not intended to create the so-called winners of life in the sense of success, but rather to develop people who can contribute to the well-being of the state, society and the media。
The current patterns of communication and industrial ecology are still in a state of great uncertainty, far less known than unknown, and the task of understanding the world and transforming it is extremely heavy. We need to have a greater pattern and a greater sense of hard work, a revolution that spreads through the world and extends our professional work to the sea, where our capacity radius has not been matched. The choice of the profession of public information, now and in the future, is to make a constructive contribution at the macro level, to make the profession of public information a hub with strong links to a wide range of professions, and to make it a central system of social systems。
Your entry at this critical juncture is a task that requires you to move beyond short-line targets, to emerge from individual sieges, to truly move from the long-line goals of national, social, media and even human social development, to a sustained and tenacity of effort, to look beyond the clouds, to dream and to seek new. Students need to take the initiative to move away from currentism and super-focusing, to bring together the community with professional self-consciousness and professional wisdom, to break down the problems of socialization, the concentration of specialization resulting from trafficization, the heavy dilution of professional moats and the promotion of deep-mediate societies for good and good。
Looking for your place in the great times and social landscapes, you will find that there are tens of millions of lines of enterprise, that the criteria for success are not the same. There is no need to be stuck in a narrow path of life, to be trapped in a secular mud, to untie the ropes of thought and thinking, to look for long cycles, to explore in the depths of professional waters and the high seas. I have a few brief observations to share with you, which are summarized in seven keywords for your information and criticism。
One is confidence. Believe in something, you can walk far. The more faith and confidence are tested at a time of low confidence in the larger fundamentals of society. Confidence is both the engine that drives us forward and the chain that prevents sinking and retreating. The ideal of journalism and professional confidence, even in the face of all kinds of treachery, have to rise to the head. At a critical moment, either move forward or go back. Only if you move forward can you arrive。
Two is curiosity. Curious that knowledge and the world will never be depleted. The journalism profession is bound to be curious about unknown issues, areas and the world. Driven by curiosity, to decipher the hidden truth, to open up the unknown world, to record the winds of the times, to promote social progress and to observe justice with fairness。
Three is focus. In this moment of super-focused sea current, “focus” becomes luxury. Spectacular information releases massive noise and noise, seriously disrupts our focus and makes it difficult for us to focus on the full range of “know-how” algorithms. Access to the journalism profession requires the exercise of a strong will and mind and the denial of full-time, full-time interference。
Fourth is accession. Learning to spread information is a profession that is destined to be admitted to the world, to face up to the world before you and to influence with the wisdom and strength of the profession the hot world you face. It is just that the world you are facing today is so complex that we do our best not necessarily understand. In addition to the real world and the virtual world, the obscurity and obscurity that make it so difficult for me to understand the world and to transform it, the enormous demands placed on our professional capacity have forced us to redouble our efforts to move rapidly to the world and the world。
Five is good learning. In times of uncertainty, reading is the ark of excessive uncertainty. You can read with your youth. Good learning is our school's lesson, and the good learning is written in our school's training. The vast learning interface and knowledge coastline of the news and communications profession, because we care about the world as a whole and are truly caring about the world, demands that we not be stuck on a single island of knowledge and that we build a knowledge chain long enough to be solid enough。
Six is practice. In recent years, the problem of the defunct journalism profession has become more pronounced, with the retreat becoming a professional migraine, both in teaching and in research. We have taken vigorous measures to curb this problem, but it is not thorough enough. Max has said that human beings should prove in practice the truth of their thinking, that is, the reality and power of their thinking, the shore of their thinking. One is the demand for journalism, and knowledge and action are strongly linked. Journalism is practice, action, and our biggest laboratory is a whole-of-the-life society. In a burning society, education is based in china, and the papers are written on chinese soil, where there are numerous opportunities and challenges, and where our actions are crucial。
Seven is funny. "excellent and interesting." diluting the utilitarian heart, enjoying the process of deep learning, maintaining the strength of the heart, having the fun soul, the comfort of the spirit, the mentality of the sun, giving life a little more emptiness, and getting a little fragrance and grace in the pursuit of truth and goodness。
In conclusion, i wish you a fresh start every day。
