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Category Archives: Chapter 1
What do we talk about when we talk about fake news? Part 1
Over the next three days I’m going to be sequentially posting a paper I’m giving at the Western Social Science Association. Instead of being in the form of a traditional academic paper, I’m going to post it in HTML with … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 14, Chapter 6
Tagged fake news, Jon Stewart, Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson, What Do We Talk About
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Media News Keeps Changing – PewDiePie and Playboy
One of the challenges of writing a media literacy/intro to mass comm textbook is keeping it up to date. Even with new editions coming every two years, current events have a way of changing the media world we live … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 5, Uncategorized
Tagged men's magazines, PewDiePie, Playboy, Things change, youtube
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Another Big Tremor in the Earthquake in Slow Motion: Part 2 – Two New Secrets
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 is going down in history as a really big day in the world of television. The fact that C-SPAN aired cell phone video through the Periscope social media service for much of the day provided by Democratic … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 9
Tagged C-SPAN, earthquake in slow motion, history, Ken Auletta, Seven Secrets, social media, television, Three Blind Mice
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Another Big Tremor in the the Earthquake in Slow Motion: Part 1 – Some Context
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 is going down in history as a really big day in the world of television. The fact that C-SPAN aired cell phone video through the Periscope social media service for much of the day provided by Democratic … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 9
Tagged earthquake in slow motion, history, ipod, Ken Auletta, television, Three Blind Mice
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Guest Blog Post – Heroes of the Dorm on ESPN2
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. For the second year in a row, … Continue reading
Looking at the history of the future
It’s always fun to take a look back at what people in the past thought the future we are living in now would look like. For example, here’s a segment CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite did in 1967 for a … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1
Tagged History of the future, technology, Weblink
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PewDiePie Rules YouTube
Felix Kjellberg is the most famous person on the planet you’ve never heard of. At least if you are older than 40 and don’t have young people in the house. Kjellberg is the first person in YouTube history to have … Continue reading
So Huffington Post lets the world know how it really feels about Trump
The Huffington Post has been making no secret of its distain for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. But this week they’ve either hit new records for transparency or contempt (you decide). According to a blog post from Politico, the HuffPo … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 6
Tagged Huffington Post, media bias?, point of view, Trump
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“I need some muscle over here” – The rest of the story
Melissa Click, an assistant professor of communication at University of Missouri’s Department of Communication who became briefly last fall when she called for “some muscle” to help get rid of a student photographer and a videographer covering campus protests, has … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 12, Chapter 13
Tagged civil rights, free speech, Mizzou, protest, social media
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New Secrets: All media are social- Presidential Edition
When the second edition of Mass Communication: Living in a Media World came out as a CQ Press title back in 2007, one of the biggest new features was the introduction of the “Seven Truths They Don’t Want You To Know About the … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1
Tagged New Secrets, Seven Secrets, social media
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