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Category Archives: Chapter 10
Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Are aggressive kids more likely to play violent video games? Study says not so much. Some interesting findings. Is it really a World Wide Web? Well, 25 percent of Europeans have yet to be online. Here’s a link to the … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Uncategorized
Tagged advertising, ipad, magazines, questions, twitter
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Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Reporters Praised for Coverage of Shootings
There can be no doubt that student journalists at Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times had the best coverage in the country of Thursday’s shooting deaths of the VT campus. As I wrote on this blog yesterday, the paper’s staff did an … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 6, Uncategorized
Tagged newspapers, social media, Virginia Tech
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Virginia Tech Shooting Drives News to Social Media
When the story broke this afternoon about a shooting that has reportedly left two dead on the Virginia Tech campus, two things happened. People started remembering the horror of the 2007 shooting on the campus that left 33 people dead, … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 12, Chapter 6
Tagged public relations, social media, twitter, Virginia Tech
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
How Can You Write a Better Blog? Some great suggestions from Dan Frommer, author of the tech blog SplatF. Here’s the Cliff Notes version: Accuracy, readable, skeptical, attributed, context, critical but fair, mechanics, original, new. Why Does Scooby-Doo Need People … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged Because I can, blogging, ethics, legal issues, politics, questions
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Tweeting, Tweaking & TNT
Three bits of media news that are worth posting but don’t really go together. Associated Press to reporters: Don’t break news on Twitter; break it on the wire The Associated Press has reiterated it’s policy of never having reporters break … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged apple, basketball, social media
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Can a woman express opinions on the Internet without threats of sexual violence? Laurie Penny has her doubts. Should we be frightened that Harry Potter director David Yates is working on a big screen Dr. Who reboot? Ashamed to say … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 2, Chapter 8
Tagged ethics, media bias?, movies, opinion writing, questions
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CTV Profiles Hark A Vagrant’s Kate Beaton
One of my favorite web comic’s is Kate Beaton’s Hark a Vagrant. While many of the strips deal with Canadian history, Nancy Drew, Victorian literature, and Mystery Solving Teens also make frequent appearances. Her collection of comics has hit the … Continue reading
Portrait of the Tablet User
The Pew Foundation has a new report out on how people are using their tablet devices. According to Pew (and what do we learn about the media these days that doesn’t come from Pew Foundation studies…), here are few things … Continue reading
Stuff Siri Says….
As you may know, Apple has just released its new iPhone 4s. Analysts and the stock market were not impressed, with Apple’s stock taking a pretty significant hit in the days that followed. And then Apple reported selling 4 million … Continue reading
Link Ch. 10 – Everything Is a Remix looks at The Matrix
The folks at Everything is a Remix look at all the cyberpunk quotes in the Matrix movies. The argument at EIAR is not that The Matrix is ripping off previous movies and books, rather that everything in popular culture is … Continue reading