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Author Archives: Ralph Hanson
New Living in a Media World Facebok Page
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!”
Posted in Site News
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Ch. 3 Link – Rupert Murdoch, Capt. Renault, and the News of the World
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
Posted in Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Uncategorized
Tagged ethics, international news, newspapers, Secret 4, Truth 4
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Dear 16-Year-Old Me….
Dear 16-year-old me, I was diagnosed with melanoma at age 42. I was lucky; it was caught early…. Ralph A brilliant, if disturbing ad. Found it as part of a collection at Mashable of the 20 most circulated viral video … Continue reading
‘Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince’ as a Comedy Trailer
Suppose for a minute that Warner Brothers wanted to promote Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as screwball teen comedy. The trailer might look something like this: Thanks eBookNewser! And here’s the actual trailer:
Posted in Chapter 8
Tagged Harry Potter, humor, movies
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Questions worth asking (Maybe)
What would Steve Jobs do? Want to design an elegant, effective product? Computerworld’s Jonny Evans says, ask yourself “What would Steve Jobs do?” Worth reading even if you are not an Apple fan. What is the future of electronic textbooks? … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 2, Chapter 4, Chapter 7
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Link Ch. 14 – Jose Vargas, immigration, and journalistic truth telling
Former Washington Post reporter Jose Vargas is a successful young journalist. He was part of a reporting team that won a Pulitzer for covering the Virginia Tech massacre, he wrote a well-regarded profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for the … Continue reading
Go The F@$% To Sleep uses online buzz to sell parody bedtime book
Note: The links from this post all contain NSFW language. There has been a new parody of a children’s picture book being published this summer called GTFTS. It has all the sweet illustrations and baby animals you would expect in … Continue reading
Magic with the iPad?
Thanks to Mashable for the link to magician and performance artist Simon Pierro video performance with an iPad.
Copyright, Creative Commons & the Public Domain
When I logged onto Twitter this morning, it seemed like everywhere I looked there was news about implications of copyright law and copyright alternatives: RIAA says there’s no value in the public domain Fascinating post from Tech Dirt about how … Continue reading
Link Ch. 7 – Meet Girl Talk’s Gregg Gillis
(Updated 2/17/19) Please note that most of the links here to video or audio content will contain offensive and/or NSFW language. Trying to explain what Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, does to anyone my age can be a bit challenging. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Link, Chapter 13, Chapter 7
Tagged copyright, Girl Talk, legal issues, music
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