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Video Game Examples
Atari Pong – First Commercial Video Game? Mario over the years Tomb Raider – Girl Power or Male Gaze? Using Final Fantasy to Create Machinima animation Mortal Kombat Fatality Grayson the Fish Playing Pokemon Presidential Candidate Herman Cain Quotes … Continue reading
Interesting Columnists – 2024
E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post Writers Group Dionne is a liberal Catholic columnist and blogger for the Washington Post who takes a fairly serious, measured response. Provocative without being a flame-thrower. When Pope Benedict stepped down in 2013, he called for … Continue reading
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What happens when a library burns? Depends on what the books are made of
How big of a book nerd am I? While researching book history this morning, I pulled these three volumes out of my personal library. Here’s some of what I found: Canadian railroad economist Harold Innis wrote one of the most … Continue reading
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Tagged book history, books, ch04 Books, Harold Innis, libraries
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How Do Social Media Affect Young People?
Frances Haugen was a Facebook product manager whose job was to protect against election interference on the social media site. She worked at the company for nearly two years, departing in May of 2021. During her time at the social … Continue reading
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Tagged ch02effects, media effects, social media, social media and mental health
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Ten Accounts I Follow on Threads
This week my JMC 406 Blogging and Commentary students were asked to do one of their first posts by listing 10 Threads accounts they are following and why. You can find my students’ posts using the #JMC406 hashtag. Here’s my … Continue reading
When Unions Dominate News Over Media Conglomerates
Usually when we talk about the media business we are talking about the actions of corporate giants like Disney and Paramount, but in the summer of 2023, it was the actions of the movie and television writers and actors unions … Continue reading
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When Scholastic Book Fairs Got Segregated (and then Desegregated Again… Maybe)
The Scholastic Book Fair is a long-running rite of passage for K-12 students in the United States when the educational publishing giant sets up big displays of books for sale at schools across the country. For your author, the Scholastic … Continue reading
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Tagged book banning, ch04 Books, scholastic book fair, Secret 3, Seven Secrets
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Will we be extremists for love or hate? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail
m One of the greatest honors of my life was being invited to speak at the Martin Luther King, Jr. candlelight vigil several years ago at the UNK student union, along with Kevin Chaney, who was then UNK’s women’s basketball coach. Here’s … Continue reading
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