Friday, February 26 2010
May degree applications due for master's and doctoral candidates in the Graduate College, 4:30 p.m.
Monday, March 01 2010
Late degree application fee in effect today for master's and doctoral candidates in the Graduate College
Friday, March 12 2010
Plans of study for May master's recipients and final exam requests for all May graduates due at Graduate College
Thursday, March 25 2010
First deposit of thesis due at Graduate College
Wednesday, April 28 2010
Final exam reports due at Graduate College
Wednesday, May 05 2010
Final thesis deposit due at Graduate College
Saturday, May 15 2010
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Commencement, Carver Hawkeye Arena, 9 a.m.
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Thursday, June 10 2010
Degree applications due for Summer graduates, 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 22 2010
Plans of study for Summer master's recipients and final exam requests for all Summer graduates due at Graduate College
Thursday, July 01 2010
First deposit of thesis due at Graduate College
Friday, July 16 2010
Final exam reports due at Graduate College
Wednesday, July 21 2010
Final deposit of thesis due at Graduate College
Friday, July 30 2010
Summer Session degree conferral date
Friday, January 29, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
From post-industrial to post-modern society
From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society: New Theories of the Contemporary World
Krishan Kumar
It has been one of the notable features of the idea of the information society that, just as with the idea of post-industrial society, its exposition and explication in the scholarly literature and at academic conferences have been accompanied by extensive popularization in the mass media and through journalistic best-sellers. Alvin Toffler, who popularized the post-industrial idea in Future Shock, has had an even greater success with his popularizatin of the idea of the information society in The Third Wave (1981). Almost equally successful has been John Naisbitt's bite-size rendering of the idea in Megatrends (1984). These popular works make helpfully explicit what are often understated or over-qualified positions in the writings of more cautiously-minded academics. In what follows I shall use Daniel Bell for the main statement of the thesis of the information society; Toffler, Naisbitt and other popularizers can supply, where necessary, the clarifying chorus (Kumar, 1995, p. 9)
Krishan Kumar
It has been one of the notable features of the idea of the information society that, just as with the idea of post-industrial society, its exposition and explication in the scholarly literature and at academic conferences have been accompanied by extensive popularization in the mass media and through journalistic best-sellers. Alvin Toffler, who popularized the post-industrial idea in Future Shock, has had an even greater success with his popularizatin of the idea of the information society in The Third Wave (1981). Almost equally successful has been John Naisbitt's bite-size rendering of the idea in Megatrends (1984). These popular works make helpfully explicit what are often understated or over-qualified positions in the writings of more cautiously-minded academics. In what follows I shall use Daniel Bell for the main statement of the thesis of the information society; Toffler, Naisbitt and other popularizers can supply, where necessary, the clarifying chorus (Kumar, 1995, p. 9)
Monday, January 11, 2010
Smart Phone and Bar-Codes - NYT Jan. 11. 2010
From Print to Phone to Web. And a Sale?
Print may be a flat medium, but that has not stopped magazine publishers from trying to add dimension to their pages. For at least a decade, they have been experimenting with bar codes and icons that could take readers to Web sites, trying to add a bit of Internetlike interactivity to their pages.
But the average consumer did not own a bar-code reader — until now. With the sudden ubiquity of smartphones, which have apps that can read bar codes, and cameraphones, which can easily snap pictures of icons, magazines like Esquire and InStyle are adding interactive graphics to their articles, while Entertainment Weekly and Star are including them in ads.
Print may be a flat medium, but that has not stopped magazine publishers from trying to add dimension to their pages. For at least a decade, they have been experimenting with bar codes and icons that could take readers to Web sites, trying to add a bit of Internetlike interactivity to their pages.
But the average consumer did not own a bar-code reader — until now. With the sudden ubiquity of smartphones, which have apps that can read bar codes, and cameraphones, which can easily snap pictures of icons, magazines like Esquire and InStyle are adding interactive graphics to their articles, while Entertainment Weekly and Star are including them in ads.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Article on Roger Ailes in NYT Jan. 10, 2010
“Like Richard Nixon, like Spiro Agnew, Fox News can never see itself as the attacker,” he said. “They are always playing defense because they believe they are always under attack, which attracts people that have the same personality formation. By bringing that mind-set, plus the high energy seamless stream of the aggression of talk radio, he has found an audience.”
A Fox Chief at the Pinnacle of Media and Politics
A Fox Chief at the Pinnacle of Media and Politics
Friday, January 08, 2010
NBC Wants Leno Back in Old Slot NYT Jan. 8, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/business/media/08leno.html?hp
The moves are being driven by pressure from NBC’s affiliated stations, which have seen ratings for their late-night local newscasts plummet since September. That was when NBC began “The Jay Leno Show,” a prime-time version of Mr. Leno’s old late-night show. Mr. O’Brien succeeded Mr. Leno as host of “The Tonight Show” in June.
Though Mr. Leno’s prime-time show has not fallen below the ratings guarantees that NBC gave to advertisers, it has averaged only about five million viewers a night. The NBC station managers have blamed consistently low lead-in audiences for much of the falloff in their news ratings — and local stations rely on news programs for the majority of their revenue. The affiliates are due to meet with NBC on Jan. 21.
The moves are being driven by pressure from NBC’s affiliated stations, which have seen ratings for their late-night local newscasts plummet since September. That was when NBC began “The Jay Leno Show,” a prime-time version of Mr. Leno’s old late-night show. Mr. O’Brien succeeded Mr. Leno as host of “The Tonight Show” in June.
Though Mr. Leno’s prime-time show has not fallen below the ratings guarantees that NBC gave to advertisers, it has averaged only about five million viewers a night. The NBC station managers have blamed consistently low lead-in audiences for much of the falloff in their news ratings — and local stations rely on news programs for the majority of their revenue. The affiliates are due to meet with NBC on Jan. 21.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Associated Press Sports Editors
http://apse.dallasnews.com/sji/sjiapplication.html
Attention: Aspiring Sports Journalists
Story updated on Sept. 15, 2009
Application process
The Sports Journalism Institute is now accepting applications for its 18th class. To get the application, please go to www.sportsjournalisminstitute.org. This program is a very critical program in attempting to diversify sports departments especially with this year's Racial and Gender Report Card on America's sports departments (.pdf).
The 2010 Sports Journalism Institute is a nine-week training and internship program for college students interested in sports journalism careers. The Institute is designed to attract talented students to print journalism through opportunities in sports reporting and editing and enhance racial and gender diversity in sports departments of newspapers nationwide. The program will run from June 4-Aug. 6, 2010.
The Sports Journalism Institute, which works with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), is funded by the Tribune Foundation, Hearst Newspapers/Houston Chronicle, Associated Press Sports Editors and the New York Daily News. The classrooom training portion will be hosted by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., and will run June 4-13; paid eight-week internships at newspapers (to be determined individually).
The program, which began in 1993, has more than 150 graduates who have gone on to work at newspapers throughout the country.
Attention: Aspiring Sports Journalists
Story updated on Sept. 15, 2009
Application process
The Sports Journalism Institute is now accepting applications for its 18th class. To get the application, please go to www.sportsjournalisminstitute.org. This program is a very critical program in attempting to diversify sports departments especially with this year's Racial and Gender Report Card on America's sports departments (.pdf).
The 2010 Sports Journalism Institute is a nine-week training and internship program for college students interested in sports journalism careers. The Institute is designed to attract talented students to print journalism through opportunities in sports reporting and editing and enhance racial and gender diversity in sports departments of newspapers nationwide. The program will run from June 4-Aug. 6, 2010.
The Sports Journalism Institute, which works with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), is funded by the Tribune Foundation, Hearst Newspapers/Houston Chronicle, Associated Press Sports Editors and the New York Daily News. The classrooom training portion will be hosted by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., and will run June 4-13; paid eight-week internships at newspapers (to be determined individually).
The program, which began in 1993, has more than 150 graduates who have gone on to work at newspapers throughout the country.
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