Archive for March, 2007
TDS – Indecision 2008, Week in Review
A look at politics & the internet. From the 1984 ad, to a Second Life attack on Edwards, to McCain’s “Final 4″ metaphor and Mike Davidson’s prank (not a hack!). From iFilms.com. Th 29 March.
(WordPress doesn’t seem willing to let me embed this — so click the screeshot to go to iFilms.com website.)
1984 Mash Up
Examples of mash up as form of political communication. The original 1984 Apple ad. Controversial Obama staffer mashup attacking Hilliary Clinton. Plus yet-another commentary using the 1984 metaphor.
Week 1 Notes – Th
In-class: review assignments (one small change), evaluation; discussion changing mediascape, “open source news” (what’s that?)
Lab: Set up Newsvine accounts. Explore! Join UW Group.
Assignment: Read journalist bloggers David Postman and Todd Bishop, Seattle PI. Develop two-three questions — they’ll be with us on Tuesday. Post to wordpress blog by 8 am Tuesday.
Reading: Post reading reflection to wordpress blog by 8am Tuesday. Everyone read DfB. and WtM. Everyone read ACM article. Pick one of the two articles on writing.
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Questions – Week 1
Questions from blog posts:
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Student Blogs From Chicago
One of the active members of Newsvine, Aine Macdermot, participated in an online chat with a journalism class (Alternative Media) at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Check out their blogs! (All have a theme – we’ll talk about this on Thursday.)
- Child Market – A blog about child prostitution & trafficking.
- EditorMom (Katharine) – Social justice, publishing, politics, and other issues.
- Healthy Bodies – The fight for universal health care.
- In The Dark – Dr. Peter Fallon (professor)
- Mama Nature – Covering environmental issues.
- media future universe – The media and the future of media.
- News Snobbery – Turning up my nose at all that is not news.
- Newsworthy02 – A comparative look at the days top news stories from a few different sources.
- Obama-meter – The meter is running on Barack Obama’s campaign for president.
- regulating regulators – Observing and reporting news about the FCC.
- Render Unto Caesar – A critical look at the dwindling separation of church and state in the US.
Tuesday Followup
Followup notes from Tuesday:
- You’ll blog your reading assignment and personal essay by wrting a new post. In lab yesterday, we edited (managed) an existing post — we didn’t create a new one. (Remember, we lost connectivity.)
- These should be two separate posts.
- Please remember to send me your blog URL!
Week 1 Notes – Tu
In-class: introductions, overview, course structure
Lab: set up WordPress blog
First assignment: Write a short post (200-350 words) outlining your background and your goals for this course. Post by 8 am Thursday.
First reading: Post first reading reflection to wordpress blog by 8am Thursday. We The Media (WtM), pages xii – 22 (Intro, Ch 1)
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