Tag: Media Theory
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Doin’ It On The Bus…
…reading my feeds, that is. Tuesday, on the way home from school Highway 17 bus style, I was making a first attempt at writing while riding, and managed to do it without any great amount of nausea. As the bus pulled into Scotts Valley, I flipped on the wi-fi switch just to see how many…
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Thinking Out Loud About The Postindustrial Workforce
A bit of idealism about a postindustrial workforce: With the lack of jobs in conventional fields like manufacturing and agriculture, globalization and computerization have drawn us further into two polarized spaces: the paper-pushers of the world and the burger-flippers of the world – no, of America, really – that’s what I want to talk about…
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Journalistic Heresy
Here’s what I see: bias in American media does not run strictly Left and Right; media bias is either pro-establishment or anti-establishment, regardless of who sleeps in the White House.
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A Globe, Clothing Itself With A Brain*
*Pierre Teilhard de Chardin? This morning, I was listening to the pReboot podcast of Robert Scoble being interviewed by Nicole Simon. (mp3) It’s been fun playing the “keeping up with Scoble” game since he spoke at SJSU last February…yeah, yeah, I got Scobleized. The best part is listening to his schtick ideas evolve over time…
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A Manifesto for Emerging Technology in Higher Education
Steve Sloan, SJSU Tech on a Mission, is starting to brew up A Manifesto for Emerging Technology in Higher Education (my phraseology, not his – but please feel free to use those words). In a post titled On taking back redefining the university, Steve is getting excited about horizontal communication within the University, excited about…
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Alexandra Samuel on Democratic Engagement
The You’re It blog is a clearinghouse for all things taxonomic (tagging, tags, tagsonomy, taxonomy, etc.) If you haven’t tried tagging yet – type the word “delicious” in your browser’s URL bar… If that doesn’t work go for del.icio.us. Check it out. Delicious, Technorati, and Flickr are all super-tag-happy. Alexandra Samuel writes in her self-intro…
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Citizen Journalism Ground Rules
Here’s a tough question from Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits Column: Someone goes on a murder/suicide kick on Tuesday morning. Five dead including the killer. A newspaper starts covering the story online. The police haven’t released the suspect’s name yet, so the paper doesn’t print it. A reader thinks she has figured out who the killer is,…
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Open Letter to J-School Class of 2005
Bitter much? Have something against Journalism Profs? It’s craft school, of course, and they are teaching the craft of journalism, the last time I checked, not How To Save The World 101.
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Free Kodak
What’s the next “democratic tool” that will put the means of communication in the hands of those who previously faced more barriers to self-expression?
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Why is it that only marketers know how to get a message across?
Every time I find someone who really gets story structure, or how to sell a story to the public, it’s a Marketing type.