Tag: Media Theory
-
Podcast is now online
The podcast I was referring to yesterday is now online. Get it from Steve Sloan’s post here, or just right click on this link here and Save the cute little mp3 file (11 MB, 48 min.) I *think* that second link should work fine, too. (UPDATE: It does.)
-
ET Conversations
We talked about educational uses for online gaming communication models and how ubiquitous wireless internet access might affect adoption of new technology like blogging and podcasting, among other topics.
-
SJSU Student Blogger Podcast coming soon
Hey all SJSU bloggers: check Steve Sloan’s blog for info about tomorrow’s chance to get in on the conversation.
-
Term Paper Wrap Up
Well, now that I’ve emailed the presentation in and printed out the paper (still looking for a powerful stapler), here’s a slide and an excerpt from the exciting and ornery beast now offically known as: Interpersonal Communication and the Formation of Public Opinion in the Internet Age: An Analysis of the Movement and Influence of…
-
Paging Walter Lippmann
Or is a lack of curiosity just a function of a consumerist society based upon spectacle? We seem to be far more curious about the spectacle than we are about reality.
-
News from the front: Blogs Vs. Journalism
There are quite a few Profs here with more than a few decades of journalism experience under their belts, not to mention years of teaching, and frankly, precious few of them buy into the idea of horizontal communication.
-
How many white women can go missing in one news cycle?
Via Romenesko, a set of stories highlighting the common thread in the most sensationalized missing persons reports of the last few years: white women seem to be vanishing left and right. The recent runaway bride ridiculousness is the point of departure, and the stories Romenesko links to point out that this sort of soap opera…
-
Knight/Princess/Dragon: More on the importance of story structure.
Knight/Princess/Dragon. In business/marketing/advertising, Cluetrain/Hughtrain style: The story of your company sells your product. Tell us why your product will better hook us into our ideals, into our more efficient day, into ourselves, into our own narrative. Tell us where your product fits into that narrative we write for ourselves. In government/politics: The story of your…
-
All conversations are stories.
SO – Yesterday I threw up my gut reaction to the Pat Tillman bamboozle, including some of what I wrote when the story broke. The reason the friendly-fire truth of the story was covered up? Because the “fallen hero” angle made for a better story. It plugs right into our collective unconscious mythic tagging system,…