Spring 2024 Online Elsewhere Report
Online Elsewhere Semester Report Spring 2024 By Richard Cameron Part One: Spring semester summary Posts by California community college student news publications continue to rise slightly, but a new normal has set in that appears to be much lower than pre-pandemic times. The Online Elsewhere project began in Spring 2020 before it was known that the Covid pandemic would upset the status quo of in-person classes on college campuses. When student publication courses joined the remote education juggernaut student posts actually increased. But as in-person classes returned numbers dropped and appear to have settled in to a new, lower number of student stories. Unfortunately, there are no clean pre-pandemic numbers available to measure against; the first semester of data is the one that was disrupted mid-way. But, based on those spring numbers and the following spring (I did not collect data for Fall 2020), stories first saw a slight dip (second half of Spring 2020) and then a s...