Matt Miller
Professor Meehan
Literature and Composition
Inside Lacrosse, the Source of the Sport
Inside Lacrosse is a prominent company providing the best coverage for anything and everything involving lacrosse. The company publishes a magazine each month which entails various lacrosse information for players and fans around the country to enjoy. There is also an official Inside Lacrosse website that is updated on a daily basis to keep people interested about the sport. The website is exceptionally informative. Though there are plenty of lacrosse websites one could visit, Inside Lacrosse takes you farther into the sport than anyone could even imagine. It is original because it literally involves every aspect of lacrosse ranging from high school teams to professional teams.
The website not only delivers updated and fully detailed news and information but it also features photos, videos, blogs, and even podcasts. Because the site is comprised of every component concerning lacrosse, it allows the viewer to remain informed at all times. Prior to the turn of the millennium, numerous amounts of people would typically refer to books, articles and magazines. Now living in a world full of technology, the internet has become the number one research tool to people across the entire globe. Adding a unique stance and outlook is precisely what makes the website more appealing to the viewer’s attention than the magazine.
A good number of people believe websites are not legitimate forms of writing, which is evidently not true. If those people took the time to look through and observe the website as a whole, they would see differently. Inside Lacrosse’s writing form is just like any newspaper or magazine article would be. The difference between the two is that on their website they can update the public quicker with live and on the spot footage. However, newspapers and magazines do not have this capability because they go through vigorous steps in order to just pass through publishing stage. Some people believe that websites are not a legitimate form of writing, which is not true in this case. Most people wouldn’t take time to look through every part of a website, and that is why most websites are not seen as important as real text, such as a magazine. The views of Hayles and Birkets are vastly different from each other. Hayles has a passion towards anything regarding technology, whereas Birkets believes in writing and reading rather than reviewing anything electronically.
Birkets says, “[w]here did he get the idea that he wanted to write. Why that, and not filmmaking, professing law, or doing psychotherapy…Why words on a page, why the desire to write fiction. There is one obvious reason, the urge that was a direct outgrowth of my love of reading. “This quotation from Birkets clearly states his opinion, that he would rather read and write, than do anything that deals with electronics. Birkets would see the website as a distraction, because there are so many options on the website. Blogging and forums for discussion are major aspects of the website, allowing everyone to state their own opinion at their own time.
Birkets would see this as a distraction to look at other things, and not focus on the real reason of what Inside Lacrosse is, a magazine. Birkets would see all the articles, blogs, and videos on this website as downfalls of the company, taking the reader away from their original tasks. Birkets view on the new millennium, and how technology is taking over is very skewed. His whole life he has had a passion towards reading, and never has taken a liking towards any electronic text. Birkets would rather have a book, a magazine, or an article in front of him, rather than on a computer screen. In the new age of technology, websites are beginning to take over with their own form of articles.
Unlike Birkets, Hayles has a completely different view on electronics. Hayles would see websites as more informative than a magazine. Hayles views about technology strengthens the idea that technology is just as informative as novels. Hayles would say that technology has the ability to give everything to you at that moment, unlike a magazine, an article or a journal, which are written, and cannot be changed. This view has been taken over by most of the younger generation over the last decade.
Inside Lacrosse is just one of many websites that has taken over as the main focus of the company. Inside Lacrosse magazine comes out every month, whereas the website is updated every day. This new wave of technology is shaping the way the younger generation acts. People are beginning to rely more on technology, because the internet can be updated on a daily basis. This new idea of how people read will start to become more and more popular in the upcoming years.
