From cave drawings to the printing press to sitting around the television waiting for the news, media is always changing. Now the media has developed more social components.
On Wednesday night at Pruis Hall, Eric Kuhn, a social media guru, spoke to a crowd of students and faculty about social media’s impact on the world, his journey, the history of media and social media today.
“Social media tells you what you need to know that you don’t know or what you need to know,” Kuhn said.
He started with his experiences, beginning his journalism path when he was a senior in high school. Kuhn was on a local public reality show working on the 2004 primary elections and said this was around the time he “was bitten by the journalism bug.”
Kuhn explained how technology is advancing and how media is now everywhere. He spoke about how social media includes things people would not be able to look up. It is information the user knows before the media knows.
“He was a very energetic speaker,” Lexi Gurley, a freshman chemistry major, said. “He gave good advice and gave different insight on social media.”
