Innovations in Mass Communication
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2010
The movie Milk is about the hard fought life of Harvey Milk. It thoroughly depicts the American gay activist’s struggle for gay rights. I had actually already seen this movie and enjoyed it the first time. However, after watching it again I noticed some interesting things. I thought it was very interesting that this movie [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2010
For the Wildcard assignment I went to the Cliff Evans exhibit at the Schwayder Art Building. The video that Cliff Evans put together was about 3 minutes long and was on repeat so I was able to watch the video multiple times over and over again and really get a full understanding of what Evans [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2010
After watching the YouTube video from the History Channel about the telegraph during the American Civil War, I truly understood the importance and progressiveness of the telegraph. Not only was it important in the development of our country’s communication efforts, but also it was extremely important during the Civil War in helping our soldiers and [...]
Posted in college student news on Jan 26th, 2010
One thing I found interesting was when Mindich discussed the fact that college aged students consume less news related media than older generations. Mindich describes the reason for this to be the information overload that college-aged students are facing today. I agree with this in some respects but disagree in others. I agree that there [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2010
In this reading I agreed with many points, especially the point that media has somewhat mirrored society. However I would like to propose a question of whether people think the media is mirroring society or if society is mirroring the media. Was it not until The Devil Wears Prada or Clerks or Office Space, that [...]