In exchange of beginning this post with a summary, I would like to begin it with a question developed from the reading…
Has the quality of the information we are receiving through the media, in all the modern forms, improved or decreased in quality?
Archive for November, 2005
The Wiki-Wand
Posted in Prior Classes on 22 November 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Objectivity is a dead ideaology – except for a price? – Erica Schisler
Posted in Prior Classes on 22 November 2005 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just finished reading Chapter 12 of Paul Starr’s, “Creation of the Media” – titled: Coda: the Advent of Media.
Here is my summary:
Starr writes, “The structure of the media, I have been arguing, resulted from constitutive choices at key junctures that affected the long-run path of development of communications. From the seventeenth to [...]
We have no choice: the reason why some media person use Blogchina
Posted in Prior Classes on 22 November 2005 | Leave a Comment »
We have no choice: the reason why some media person use Blogchina
In year 2003, one of my friends told me Mr. Xingdong Fang launched a Blogger website name www.blogchina.com. I spent 5 minutes to surf on his blogchina and felt a bit of sad, because Mr. Fang, one of my friend hunted another god domain [...]
information overload– Coda RED!
Posted in Prior Classes on 22 November 2005 | Leave a Comment »
While reading the advent of the media the one persistent theme that stuck out was that information overload is not a new thing! Blogging and the overload of “subjective journalists”, still not a new thing.
This article was very detailed, though bouncing all over the timeline. I will focus on the way American media developed to [...]
From Tom Pain to Blogs and Beyond – Erica Schisler
Posted in Prior Classes on 22 November 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I assume that the article I just read is from the book “We the Media” by Dan Gillmor – but I can’t be sure because there was nothing I could find on the class website or the PDF indicating the title or the author.
