Author Archives: Ralph Hanson

Guest Blog Post: Babies don’t belong in cages

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

Thanks to romance writer and family friend Holly Jacobs for this powerful guest blog post.  I try to stay away from non-media politics here, but the recent events on the US-Mexican border are not about politics, they are about basic … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: Digging in the (White) Trash

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

Please welcome Dr. Tasha Dunn, one of my colleagues in the UNK Department of Communication with her guest blog post about her upcoming book, Taking Out the “Trash”: Mediated Representations and Lived Experiences of White Working-Class People, coming soon from Routledge Books. … Continue reading →

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Chapter 11 – Burger King’s award-winning Google Home of the Whopper

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

Burger King – Google Home of the Whopper (Case Study) from Casal + Peña on Vimeo.

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Ch. 7 – Brian Ibbott’s Podcasting Empire

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

Colorado podcaster (and friend of the book) Brian Ibbott has been posting audio shows online since 2004.  He now has a whole host of programs he jokingly refers to as his “podcasting empire.” Here are links to all of them: … Continue reading →

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Ch. 6 – Categorizing news sources

Posted on May 21, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

Patent attorney Vanessa Otero has created a chart that categorizes news outlets by political bias and overall quality. You can see the chart here. Version 4 of chart You can create your own version of the chart using this link. … Continue reading →

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Chapter 5 Link – Short Story ‘Cat Person’ from The New Yorker

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

The short story ‘Cat Person’ by Kristen Roupenian became the second most read article of the year in The New Yorker for 2017. You can read or listen to it here: Cat Person, by Kristen Roupenian Cat Person, read by … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: Another group of Afghan journalists killed; another note of condolences

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

My friend Dr. Chris Allen, a journalism professor at University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been working on global journalism issues from Russia, to Afghanistan, to Oman, and beyond. He writes occasional guest blog posts on international issues. He wrote … Continue reading →

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Ch. 3 Visual Media Literacy: Google Doodles

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

Here are several of the Google doodles I discuss in the Ch. 3 Test Your Visual Media Literacy exercise: The original Burning Man Google doodle Lotte Reiniger’s 117th Birthday Google doodle The 44th Anniversary of the Birth of Hip Hop … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post – Streaming and Mainstreaming: Spotlight on LGBT Media

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

A couple of months ago I saw the following Tweet from my online friend Candice Roberts: Given that Dr. Roberts knows much more on this subject than I do, I invited her to do a guest blog post, which she … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog Post: Ninja Reshapes Streaming Video Games in 2018

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

The following is a guest blog post by my colleague Aaron Blackman, who in addition to being a forensics coach and comm lecturer is also a big fan of video and tabletop games. He also streams video games and writes … Continue reading →

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