Author Archives: Ralph Hanson

More Earthquakes and Twitter

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Boing Boing shared a fascinating video up showing the spread of earthquake Tweets on Tuesday. The green dots are tweets about earthquakes, the gray dots are tweets about other topics.  Each frame covers 1 second, and the video covers 12 minutes … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 2 – Earthquakes, social media, XKCD and science

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

This week my students in my senior-level mass media and society class have been working at developing experiments to learn about how people use social media.  Most of them are trying to measure President Obama’s popularity (or lack thereof), rather … Continue reading →

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Could this be the future of mobile media?

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

This is just animated concept, but wouldn’t it be cool?  My favorite part of the movie Minority Report was how people could control virtual screens in the air. (Thanks, 9to5mac!)

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Updated – Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

How do journalists handle telling the story when politicians and scientists conflict? There are always multiple sides when it comes to politics.  But when you move into science, not all sides are equal.  Finding a path to reporting on politicians … Continue reading →

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Top Visual Communication Creative Projects from AEJMC11

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Last week I attended (and Tweeted about) some great sessions at the AEJMC meetings in St. Louis.  This will be the first of a series of posts highlighting what I saw and heard. This post looks at the award-winning creative … Continue reading →

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Media news at AEJMC

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Hi, everyone from AEJMC in Sunny St. Louis! If you are here and want to say hello, send me an e-mail to rhanson40@gmail.com. In the mean time, here’s a bit of what’s happening currently in media news: Tyler Perry, of … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

As people of color become a majority, is it time for journalists to stop using the term ‘minorities’? When I posted this link to an article from Poynter last week, I got a lot of interesting feedback. PR man @mitchellfriedmn wrote, … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 8 – Why should we care about 3D movies?

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Why do we care about how 3D movies are made? Because movies that are shot in 3D from the beginning can look pretty good.  Beyond the obvious example of Avatar, I would  argue that the TRON remake was a gorgeous (if somewhat empty) 3D … Continue reading →

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New Living in a Media World Facebok Page

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

By the way, if you haven’t checked in and ‘liked’ the new Facebook page for Mass Communication: Living in a Media World, stop by and say ‘Hi!”

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Ch. 3 Link – Rupert Murdoch, Capt. Renault, and the News of the World

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

I’ve been holding off blogging for some time about the whole fuss over the scandal surrounding the British tabloid News of the World because I haven’t really been sure what to say about it. On the one hand, the largest … Continue reading →

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