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.
Monday, November 23, 2009
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Students Produce New Monthly TV Magazine Show Called “219 West”
219 West Promo from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Commodification of the Past
Yugo-nostalgia: Cultural Memory and Media in former Yugoslavia - Zala Volčič
commodification of the past
ideological machinery
Yogoslavian subjects
to imagine common historical memory
Yugoslavia as a cultural, civic space
Internally unified homogenous nation state after the collapse of the USSR
civilian supra-national identity
Nostalgia
commercialization of culture
all were used to reimagine the cultural idenity
Nostalgia Industry
1. Revisionist Nostalgia
2. Aethetic Nostalgia
3. Escapist, utopian nostalgia
Yugoslavia Cyber Citizenship
To redeem their dignity
They want to define themselves on the background of different identities.
Reinvent Yugoslavia
Tito might have been first easily available entity they can utilize to symbolize their imagined identity.
How do they reconcile their pursuit of new versions of national memory with their painful past in which many people killed, tortured, and bombed?
Physical and spiritual freedom necessitates ideological supporting that back up their new identity and fill the void left out after the dictatorial regimes in the past
How nostalgia is enlisted in the process of production of nationalism?
revive
repackage
resale
commodification of the past
ideological machinery
Yogoslavian subjects
to imagine common historical memory
Yugoslavia as a cultural, civic space
Internally unified homogenous nation state after the collapse of the USSR
civilian supra-national identity
Nostalgia
commercialization of culture
all were used to reimagine the cultural idenity
Nostalgia Industry
1. Revisionist Nostalgia
2. Aethetic Nostalgia
3. Escapist, utopian nostalgia
Yugoslavia Cyber Citizenship
To redeem their dignity
They want to define themselves on the background of different identities.
Reinvent Yugoslavia
Tito might have been first easily available entity they can utilize to symbolize their imagined identity.
How do they reconcile their pursuit of new versions of national memory with their painful past in which many people killed, tortured, and bombed?
Physical and spiritual freedom necessitates ideological supporting that back up their new identity and fill the void left out after the dictatorial regimes in the past
How nostalgia is enlisted in the process of production of nationalism?
revive
repackage
resale
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Ethically Challenged Visual Communications
TV anchor ( Mirthala Salinas) and LA mayor (Antonio Villaraigosa)
Amy Jacobson - Chicago reporter
Obama poster: Shepard Fairey, Mannie Ramirez (Freelancer, later affiliated to AP)
All acts of visual communication have consequences (act utilitarianism). Therefore visual communications must engage only in acts that do the greatest good for the greatest number.
Ralph Lauren model Filippa Hamilton: I was fired because I was too fat!
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2009/10/14/2009-10-14_model_fired_for_being_too_fat.html#ixzz0Uh8v3Qfk
It looks she has osteoporosis problem.
Katie Couric & photoshoped picture
Michael Born (German video journalist) faked videos for sensationalism.
Would what he did have been subject to legal charges if it happened in U.S.?
In America, there is no such concept as fake or hate speech.
You are free to put anything out there.
Jason Blair issue
American exceptionalism - fundamental issue of free speech
We have market place of idea - market will punish it.
Government should not choose what is ethical and legal in terms of speech and expression.
Europe it developed into the black market of hate speech.
To him, American system is more preferable.
Slam grows in the dark.
Amy Jacobson - Chicago reporter
Obama poster: Shepard Fairey, Mannie Ramirez (Freelancer, later affiliated to AP)
All acts of visual communication have consequences (act utilitarianism). Therefore visual communications must engage only in acts that do the greatest good for the greatest number.
Ralph Lauren model Filippa Hamilton: I was fired because I was too fat!
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2009/10/14/2009-10-14_model_fired_for_being_too_fat.html#ixzz0Uh8v3Qfk
It looks she has osteoporosis problem.
Katie Couric & photoshoped picture
Michael Born (German video journalist) faked videos for sensationalism.
Would what he did have been subject to legal charges if it happened in U.S.?
In America, there is no such concept as fake or hate speech.
You are free to put anything out there.
Jason Blair issue
American exceptionalism - fundamental issue of free speech
We have market place of idea - market will punish it.
Government should not choose what is ethical and legal in terms of speech and expression.
Europe it developed into the black market of hate speech.
To him, American system is more preferable.
Slam grows in the dark.
Monday, September 28, 2009
How to Turn Off Snap Shots Link Preview on WordPress Blogs
In short:
In WordPress.com blogs: Go to Presentation/Appearance > Extras and uncheck the Snap Preview/Snap Shots feature box to disable it on your blog. Click Update to save the changes.
More on this at:
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/how-to-turn-off-snap-preview-on-wordpress-blogs/
In WordPress.com blogs: Go to Presentation/Appearance > Extras and uncheck the Snap Preview/Snap Shots feature box to disable it on your blog. Click Update to save the changes.
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/how-to-turn-off-snap-preview-on-wordpress-blogs/
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Media Effects Research Table of Contents
Preface xv
A Scientific Approach to the Study of Media 1 (19)
Effects
Ways of Knowing 2 (2)
Experience 2 (1)
Authority 3 (1)
Science 4 (1)
Goals of Science 4 (4)
Prediction 4 (1)
Explanation 5 (1)
Understanding 6 (1)
Control 6 (2)
How are the Goals of Science Achieved? 8 (9)
Theory 8 (2)
Falsifiability 10 (1)
The Nature of Science 11 (1)
Science Is General 12 (2)
Science Acknowledges the Existence of 14 (1)
Objective Truth
Science Assumes a Skeptical Attitude 15 (1)
Science Can't Answer Certain Kinds of 16 (1)
Questions
Summary 17 (1)
Key Terms and Concepts 18 (1)
Notes 18 (2)
Scientific Methods in Media Effects Research 20 (24)
Analyzing Media Content 20 (5)
What Is Content Analysis? 21 (1)
An Example: The Content of Popular Music 22 (1)
The Sample 22 (1)
Units of Analysis 23 (1)
Categories 23 (1)
Coding Agreement 23 (1)
Statistical Analysis 24 (1)
Interpretation of Findings 24 (1)
The Sample Survey 25 (4)
An Example: Does Watching a Traumatic
Event on TV Cause
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? 26 (1)
The Sample 27 (1)
The Questionnaire 27 (1)
Descriptive Findings 27 (1)
Statistical Relationships 27 (1)
Interpretation of the Findings 28 (1)
Types of Surveys 28 (1)
The Search for Causal Relationships 29 (6)
Criteria for Causal Relationships 29 (1)
Correlation Coefficients 30 (1)
Interpreting Correlation Coefficients 30 (5)
The Experimental Method 35 (4)
Manipulation of a Key Variable 35 (1)
Random Assignment to Experimental 35 (1)
Conditions
Identical Treatment Except for the 36 (1)
Manipulation
Control Groups 36 (1)
Different Experimental Designs 37 (1)
An Example: The Effects of Mood on 38 (1)
Music Listening Choice
Participants 38 (1)
Independent Variable 39 (1)
Dependent Variable 39 (1)
Experimental Results 39 (1)
Interpretation of Results 39 (1)
Controversy About Research Methods 39 (1)
Other Methodological Approaches 40 (1)
Summary 41 (1)
Key Terms and Concepts 42 (1)
Notes 42 (2)
A Brief History of Media Effects Research 44 (18)
Setting the Stage 45 (1)
1898---Congress Declares War on Spain 45 (1)
1917---Propaganda in World War I 46 (1)
The 1920s---Movies Explode as 46 (1)
Mainstream Entertainment
1929-1932---The Payne Fund Studies 46 (4)
What Was the Content of Movies? 47 (1)
The Emotional Impact of Movies 47 (1)
Does Watching Movies Affect Behavior? 48 (1)
The Aftermath of the Payne Fund Studies 49 (1)
The Invasion From Mars 50 (1)
The Research at Princeton 50 (1)
Early Theory of Media Effects: The Magic 51 (1)
Bullet Model
The People's Choice Study: The 52 (5)
Limited-Effects Model
Why Use Control Groups? 52 (1)
Media Impact in the 1940 Campaign 53 (1)
Experiments on World War II Movies 53 (2)
The Limited-Effects Perspective 55 (2)
The Evils of Comic Books 57 (1)
The Dawn of Television 57 (1)
Many Types of Media Effects 58 (1)
Micro-Level or Macro-Level Effects 58 (1)
Content-Specific or Diffuse-General 59 (1)
Effects
Attitudinal Versus Behavioral Versus 59 (1)
Cognitive Changes
Alteration Versus Stabilization 59 (1)
Summary 59 (1)
Key Terms and Concepts 60 (1)
Notes 60 (2)
Time Spent with Mass Media: Reasons and 62 (18)
Consequences
The Uses and Gratifications Perspective 63 (5)
Why Do Children Watch TV? 63 (1)
Learning 63 (1)
Habit 64 (1)
Companionship 65 (1)
Arousal 66 (1)
Relaxation 66 (1)
Escape 66 (1)
Passing Time 67 (1)
Uses and Gratifications Among Older 67 (1)
Viewers
The Problem With Self-reports 68 (1)
Time Spent With Media 69 (7)
The Displacement Hypothesis 70 (1)
Displacement of Important Activities 71 (2)
Television Viewing and Obesity 73 (3)
Summary 76 (1)
Key Terms and Concepts 76 (1)
Notes 77 (3)
Effects of Media Violence 80 (25)
The Presence of Violent Content 82 (3)
The Causal Link Between Viewing Violence 85 (7)
and Behaving Aggressively
The Research of Albert Bandura 85 (2)
The Long-Term Studies of Leonard Eron 87 (2)
and Rowell Huesmann
The Research of Brandon Centerwall 89 (1)
The Catharsis Hypothesis 89 (2)
A Priming Analysis of the Effect of 91 (1)
Media Violence
Desensitization to Violence 92 (1)
What About Video Games? Are They Training 93 (6)
Kids to Kill?
An Opinion on Video Games from an 94 (1)
Expert on ``Killology''
What Does the Research Say? 95 (4)
Why Do People Like Media Violence? 99 (2)
Where Does Research on Media Violence Go 101(1)
Now?
Concluding Comments 101(1)
Summary 102(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 102(1)
Notes 102(3)
Sexual Content in the Media 105(23)
Human Sexuality Brings out Passionate 105(2)
Opinion
Sorting Out Definitions and Terms 107(1)
The Commission on Obscenity and 108(1)
Pornography
Major Finding 108(1)
A Reexamination of the Commission's 109(2)
Findings
Research Following the Commission Report 111(4)
Content Available 112(1)
Perceptual Consequences of Viewing 112(1)
Behavioral Consequences of Viewing 113(2)
The Meese Commission Report on Pornography 115(2)
Major Conclusion 115(2)
Sex on Prime-Time TV 117(6)
The Dynamics of Excitation Transfer 118(1)
Content Analyses 119(1)
Sexual Behavior and Viewing 120(3)
Control Over Media Content 123(2)
Sex and the Internet 123(1)
Legal Control 123(1)
Social or Economic Control 124(1)
Control Through Education 124(1)
Summary 125(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 125(1)
Notes 125(3)
Media that Stir Emotions 128(22)
Fright Reactions to Media are Prevalent 129(1)
Developmental Theory: What Scares One 130(1)
Child May Not Scare Another
Experimenting With the Incredible Hulk 131(1)
Why Is the Paranormal So Scary? 132(5)
Poltergeist 135(1)
The Nightmare on Elm Street Series 135(1)
The Exorcist 136(1)
Why Do Some Media Fears Linger for So 137(1)
Long?: A Theory of Differential Brain
Processing
Theory About Emotional Coping: What's a 138(1)
Parent to Do?
Is It Fun to Be Scared? 139(3)
Frightening Films and Roller-Coaster 140(1)
Rides
The Sexual Dynamic in Viewing 141(1)
Frightening Films
Beyond Fear: Other Emotional Reactions to 142(4)
Media
Empathy: I Feel What You Feel 142(1)
Using Media to Manage Your Mood 142(3)
Does Mediated Emotion Disrupt and 145(1)
Confuse Our Emotional Well-Being?
Summary 146(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 147(1)
Notes 148(2)
Persuasive Effects of the Media 150(28)
What Is Persuasion? 150(1)
How Media Messages Persuade Without Even 151(7)
Trying
The Theory of Media Cultivation: 153(3)
Cultivating Attitudes is Attitude Change
Do Media Messages About the Paranormal 156(2)
Influence Paranormal Beliefs?
Intentional Persuasion in the Media 158(3)
Using Entertainment to Improve Public 158(1)
Health
The Great American Values Test 159(1)
How Does an Advertiser Determine 160(1)
Success?
Some Evidence for the Effectiveness of 160(1)
Advertising
Some Key Principles of Media Persuasion 161(7)
The Power of the Source 163(1)
Message Features: Simplicity and 164(1)
Repetition
More Message Features: Fear, Guilt, and 164(2)
Humor
The Health Campaign 166(2)
Subliminal Persuasion: The Magic Key? 168(5)
Early History 169(1)
The Presumed Mechanism 169(1)
Two Important Questions 170(1)
A Caveat: Research on Subliminal Priming 171(1)
The Third-Person Effect 172(1)
Summary 173(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 173(1)
Notes 174(4)
The Effects of News and Political Content 178(21)
Thinking About the News 178(10)
Need for Cognition 179(1)
Political Sophistication 180(1)
Agenda-Setting Theory: A Theory About 181(2)
Thinking
The Spiral of Silence 183(2)
How Much of the News Do We Remember? 185(3)
The Role of Emotion 188(4)
Another View of News: Do Certain News 192(3)
Reports Cause More People to Die?
Imitative Suicides and the News 193(2)
Summary 195(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 195(1)
Notes 196(3)
The Effects of Media Stereotypes 199(20)
Stereotypical Representations in the Media 199(11)
Sex Role Stereotypes 201(1)
Effects of Sex Role Stereotypes 202(2)
Media Images of Thin Bodies and Effects 204(3)
on Body Image
Racial Stereotypes 207(1)
Overrepresentation of African Americans 208(2)
as Lawbreakers
The Imbalance in Media Research on 210(2)
Stereotypes
An Intriguing and Under-Studied Media 212(4)
Depiction: Faces
Summary 216(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 216(1)
Notes 217(2)
The Impact of New Media Technologies 219(18)
The Revolution in New Media Technology 219(2)
Computers and the Internet: Connection or 221(13)
Alienation?
The Carnegie Mellon Study 222(2)
Applying the Lessons of History 224(4)
Thinking About New Technology 228(3)
Speculation About New Technology Effects 231(1)
Will Our Old Brains Catch Up to the New 232(1)
Technology?
Potential Medium Effects on Health 233(1)
Summary 234(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 234(1)
Notes 235(2)
Meet Marshall McLuhan: A Less Scientific 237(18)
Approach to Media Impact
Is There Any Value to Considering 237(1)
Marshall McLuhan?
Meet Marshall McLuhan 238(1)
The Eras of Communication History 239(3)
The Tribal Age 239(1)
Moving from the Tribal Age to the Print 240(1)
Age
Moving On to the Current Electronic Age 241(1)
The Medium is the Message 242(2)
The Effects of Electronic Media on Human 244(7)
Beings
Education in the Electronic Age 244(2)
War in the Electronic Age: Not So 246(3)
``Hot''
Politics in the Electronic Age: Was 249(1)
Bill Clinton ``Cooler'' Than George
Bush?
Did McLuhan's Perspective Predict a 249(1)
Winner Between Obama and McCain?
Drugs in the Electronic Age 250(1)
McLuhan's Influence 251(1)
Some Final Reflections 252(1)
Summary 252(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 252(1)
Notes 253(1)
Important Sources on Marshall McLuhan 253(2)
Appendix Theories and Theoretical Concepts 255(2)
Discussed in the Text (by Chapter)
Name Index 257(4)
Subject Index 261
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A Scientific Approach to the Study of Media 1 (19)
Effects
Ways of Knowing 2 (2)
Experience 2 (1)
Authority 3 (1)
Science 4 (1)
Goals of Science 4 (4)
Prediction 4 (1)
Explanation 5 (1)
Understanding 6 (1)
Control 6 (2)
How are the Goals of Science Achieved? 8 (9)
Theory 8 (2)
Falsifiability 10 (1)
The Nature of Science 11 (1)
Science Is General 12 (2)
Science Acknowledges the Existence of 14 (1)
Objective Truth
Science Assumes a Skeptical Attitude 15 (1)
Science Can't Answer Certain Kinds of 16 (1)
Questions
Summary 17 (1)
Key Terms and Concepts 18 (1)
Notes 18 (2)
Scientific Methods in Media Effects Research 20 (24)
Analyzing Media Content 20 (5)
What Is Content Analysis? 21 (1)
An Example: The Content of Popular Music 22 (1)
The Sample 22 (1)
Units of Analysis 23 (1)
Categories 23 (1)
Coding Agreement 23 (1)
Statistical Analysis 24 (1)
Interpretation of Findings 24 (1)
The Sample Survey 25 (4)
An Example: Does Watching a Traumatic
Event on TV Cause
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? 26 (1)
The Sample 27 (1)
The Questionnaire 27 (1)
Descriptive Findings 27 (1)
Statistical Relationships 27 (1)
Interpretation of the Findings 28 (1)
Types of Surveys 28 (1)
The Search for Causal Relationships 29 (6)
Criteria for Causal Relationships 29 (1)
Correlation Coefficients 30 (1)
Interpreting Correlation Coefficients 30 (5)
The Experimental Method 35 (4)
Manipulation of a Key Variable 35 (1)
Random Assignment to Experimental 35 (1)
Conditions
Identical Treatment Except for the 36 (1)
Manipulation
Control Groups 36 (1)
Different Experimental Designs 37 (1)
An Example: The Effects of Mood on 38 (1)
Music Listening Choice
Participants 38 (1)
Independent Variable 39 (1)
Dependent Variable 39 (1)
Experimental Results 39 (1)
Interpretation of Results 39 (1)
Controversy About Research Methods 39 (1)
Other Methodological Approaches 40 (1)
Summary 41 (1)
Key Terms and Concepts 42 (1)
Notes 42 (2)
A Brief History of Media Effects Research 44 (18)
Setting the Stage 45 (1)
1898---Congress Declares War on Spain 45 (1)
1917---Propaganda in World War I 46 (1)
The 1920s---Movies Explode as 46 (1)
Mainstream Entertainment
1929-1932---The Payne Fund Studies 46 (4)
What Was the Content of Movies? 47 (1)
The Emotional Impact of Movies 47 (1)
Does Watching Movies Affect Behavior? 48 (1)
The Aftermath of the Payne Fund Studies 49 (1)
The Invasion From Mars 50 (1)
The Research at Princeton 50 (1)
Early Theory of Media Effects: The Magic 51 (1)
Bullet Model
The People's Choice Study: The 52 (5)
Limited-Effects Model
Why Use Control Groups? 52 (1)
Media Impact in the 1940 Campaign 53 (1)
Experiments on World War II Movies 53 (2)
The Limited-Effects Perspective 55 (2)
The Evils of Comic Books 57 (1)
The Dawn of Television 57 (1)
Many Types of Media Effects 58 (1)
Micro-Level or Macro-Level Effects 58 (1)
Content-Specific or Diffuse-General 59 (1)
Effects
Attitudinal Versus Behavioral Versus 59 (1)
Cognitive Changes
Alteration Versus Stabilization 59 (1)
Summary 59 (1)
Key Terms and Concepts 60 (1)
Notes 60 (2)
Time Spent with Mass Media: Reasons and 62 (18)
Consequences
The Uses and Gratifications Perspective 63 (5)
Why Do Children Watch TV? 63 (1)
Learning 63 (1)
Habit 64 (1)
Companionship 65 (1)
Arousal 66 (1)
Relaxation 66 (1)
Escape 66 (1)
Passing Time 67 (1)
Uses and Gratifications Among Older 67 (1)
Viewers
The Problem With Self-reports 68 (1)
Time Spent With Media 69 (7)
The Displacement Hypothesis 70 (1)
Displacement of Important Activities 71 (2)
Television Viewing and Obesity 73 (3)
Summary 76 (1)
Key Terms and Concepts 76 (1)
Notes 77 (3)
Effects of Media Violence 80 (25)
The Presence of Violent Content 82 (3)
The Causal Link Between Viewing Violence 85 (7)
and Behaving Aggressively
The Research of Albert Bandura 85 (2)
The Long-Term Studies of Leonard Eron 87 (2)
and Rowell Huesmann
The Research of Brandon Centerwall 89 (1)
The Catharsis Hypothesis 89 (2)
A Priming Analysis of the Effect of 91 (1)
Media Violence
Desensitization to Violence 92 (1)
What About Video Games? Are They Training 93 (6)
Kids to Kill?
An Opinion on Video Games from an 94 (1)
Expert on ``Killology''
What Does the Research Say? 95 (4)
Why Do People Like Media Violence? 99 (2)
Where Does Research on Media Violence Go 101(1)
Now?
Concluding Comments 101(1)
Summary 102(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 102(1)
Notes 102(3)
Sexual Content in the Media 105(23)
Human Sexuality Brings out Passionate 105(2)
Opinion
Sorting Out Definitions and Terms 107(1)
The Commission on Obscenity and 108(1)
Pornography
Major Finding 108(1)
A Reexamination of the Commission's 109(2)
Findings
Research Following the Commission Report 111(4)
Content Available 112(1)
Perceptual Consequences of Viewing 112(1)
Behavioral Consequences of Viewing 113(2)
The Meese Commission Report on Pornography 115(2)
Major Conclusion 115(2)
Sex on Prime-Time TV 117(6)
The Dynamics of Excitation Transfer 118(1)
Content Analyses 119(1)
Sexual Behavior and Viewing 120(3)
Control Over Media Content 123(2)
Sex and the Internet 123(1)
Legal Control 123(1)
Social or Economic Control 124(1)
Control Through Education 124(1)
Summary 125(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 125(1)
Notes 125(3)
Media that Stir Emotions 128(22)
Fright Reactions to Media are Prevalent 129(1)
Developmental Theory: What Scares One 130(1)
Child May Not Scare Another
Experimenting With the Incredible Hulk 131(1)
Why Is the Paranormal So Scary? 132(5)
Poltergeist 135(1)
The Nightmare on Elm Street Series 135(1)
The Exorcist 136(1)
Why Do Some Media Fears Linger for So 137(1)
Long?: A Theory of Differential Brain
Processing
Theory About Emotional Coping: What's a 138(1)
Parent to Do?
Is It Fun to Be Scared? 139(3)
Frightening Films and Roller-Coaster 140(1)
Rides
The Sexual Dynamic in Viewing 141(1)
Frightening Films
Beyond Fear: Other Emotional Reactions to 142(4)
Media
Empathy: I Feel What You Feel 142(1)
Using Media to Manage Your Mood 142(3)
Does Mediated Emotion Disrupt and 145(1)
Confuse Our Emotional Well-Being?
Summary 146(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 147(1)
Notes 148(2)
Persuasive Effects of the Media 150(28)
What Is Persuasion? 150(1)
How Media Messages Persuade Without Even 151(7)
Trying
The Theory of Media Cultivation: 153(3)
Cultivating Attitudes is Attitude Change
Do Media Messages About the Paranormal 156(2)
Influence Paranormal Beliefs?
Intentional Persuasion in the Media 158(3)
Using Entertainment to Improve Public 158(1)
Health
The Great American Values Test 159(1)
How Does an Advertiser Determine 160(1)
Success?
Some Evidence for the Effectiveness of 160(1)
Advertising
Some Key Principles of Media Persuasion 161(7)
The Power of the Source 163(1)
Message Features: Simplicity and 164(1)
Repetition
More Message Features: Fear, Guilt, and 164(2)
Humor
The Health Campaign 166(2)
Subliminal Persuasion: The Magic Key? 168(5)
Early History 169(1)
The Presumed Mechanism 169(1)
Two Important Questions 170(1)
A Caveat: Research on Subliminal Priming 171(1)
The Third-Person Effect 172(1)
Summary 173(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 173(1)
Notes 174(4)
The Effects of News and Political Content 178(21)
Thinking About the News 178(10)
Need for Cognition 179(1)
Political Sophistication 180(1)
Agenda-Setting Theory: A Theory About 181(2)
Thinking
The Spiral of Silence 183(2)
How Much of the News Do We Remember? 185(3)
The Role of Emotion 188(4)
Another View of News: Do Certain News 192(3)
Reports Cause More People to Die?
Imitative Suicides and the News 193(2)
Summary 195(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 195(1)
Notes 196(3)
The Effects of Media Stereotypes 199(20)
Stereotypical Representations in the Media 199(11)
Sex Role Stereotypes 201(1)
Effects of Sex Role Stereotypes 202(2)
Media Images of Thin Bodies and Effects 204(3)
on Body Image
Racial Stereotypes 207(1)
Overrepresentation of African Americans 208(2)
as Lawbreakers
The Imbalance in Media Research on 210(2)
Stereotypes
An Intriguing and Under-Studied Media 212(4)
Depiction: Faces
Summary 216(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 216(1)
Notes 217(2)
The Impact of New Media Technologies 219(18)
The Revolution in New Media Technology 219(2)
Computers and the Internet: Connection or 221(13)
Alienation?
The Carnegie Mellon Study 222(2)
Applying the Lessons of History 224(4)
Thinking About New Technology 228(3)
Speculation About New Technology Effects 231(1)
Will Our Old Brains Catch Up to the New 232(1)
Technology?
Potential Medium Effects on Health 233(1)
Summary 234(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 234(1)
Notes 235(2)
Meet Marshall McLuhan: A Less Scientific 237(18)
Approach to Media Impact
Is There Any Value to Considering 237(1)
Marshall McLuhan?
Meet Marshall McLuhan 238(1)
The Eras of Communication History 239(3)
The Tribal Age 239(1)
Moving from the Tribal Age to the Print 240(1)
Age
Moving On to the Current Electronic Age 241(1)
The Medium is the Message 242(2)
The Effects of Electronic Media on Human 244(7)
Beings
Education in the Electronic Age 244(2)
War in the Electronic Age: Not So 246(3)
``Hot''
Politics in the Electronic Age: Was 249(1)
Bill Clinton ``Cooler'' Than George
Bush?
Did McLuhan's Perspective Predict a 249(1)
Winner Between Obama and McCain?
Drugs in the Electronic Age 250(1)
McLuhan's Influence 251(1)
Some Final Reflections 252(1)
Summary 252(1)
Key Terms and Concepts 252(1)
Notes 253(1)
Important Sources on Marshall McLuhan 253(2)
Appendix Theories and Theoretical Concepts 255(2)
Discussed in the Text (by Chapter)
Name Index 257(4)
Subject Index 261
http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htmy/049556785X.html
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
A great performance of the production team
What impressed me most in this year's VMA was not all the embarrassments and gossips entailed from an outburst of distasteful misbehavior of an individual, but it was the great coordination of production staff displayed throughout the show. In particular, this sequence of live outdoor performance showed a good execution of such coordination between different parts of production team.
http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/435681/taylor-swift-you-belong-with-me-live.jhtml#id=1620604
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
NBC responds to criticism of change in poll wording
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200908180043
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200908190058
Pollster Behind Controversial Public Option Poll Has Long Ties To Insurance Industry
Health Care For America Now (HCAN) argues that a change in the NBC/Wall Street Journal's wording of a key poll question about health care reform produces skewed results.
In June, the NBC/WSJ poll asked:
In any health care proposal, how important do you feel it is to give people a choice of both a public plan administered by the federal government and a private plan for their health insurance--extremely important, quite important, not that important, or not at all important?
76 percent said it was extremely or quite important to include such a plan in health care reform.
In July, NBC and the Journal changed their wording:
Would you favor or oppose creating a public health care plan administered by the federal government that would compete directly with private health insurance companies?
That produced a much more negative response. There are indications that the new NBC/WSJ out this evening will repeat that July wording, with similar results.
Also read
RESPONSE FROM NBC'S POLLSTERS
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200908190058
Pollster Behind Controversial Public Option Poll Has Long Ties To Insurance Industry
Health Care For America Now (HCAN) argues that a change in the NBC/Wall Street Journal's wording of a key poll question about health care reform produces skewed results.
In June, the NBC/WSJ poll asked:
In any health care proposal, how important do you feel it is to give people a choice of both a public plan administered by the federal government and a private plan for their health insurance--extremely important, quite important, not that important, or not at all important?
76 percent said it was extremely or quite important to include such a plan in health care reform.
In July, NBC and the Journal changed their wording:
Would you favor or oppose creating a public health care plan administered by the federal government that would compete directly with private health insurance companies?
That produced a much more negative response. There are indications that the new NBC/WSJ out this evening will repeat that July wording, with similar results.
Also read
RESPONSE FROM NBC'S POLLSTERS
Are we getting into the winter season already?
It wasn't that cool this morning. But I started feeling that the weather was changing and getting into the winter mood.
The cool weather reminded me of a picture I took several years back.
The cool weather reminded me of a picture I took several years back.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML (Paperback)
A good book to learn about web publishing languages
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059610197X/ref=ox_ya_oh_product
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059610197X/ref=ox_ya_oh_product
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Processing Multiple Files in Photoshop
http://t3traintheteacher.net/curric/cs4/photoshop/pdf/Photoshop14.pdf
Lesson overview:
Organize images in a folder, open an
image and record modifications, and
apply those modifications to the
remaining images in the folder.
Tools used:
• Actions Palette
• Batch Process Panel
Skills covered:
• Preparing files to be batch processed
• Recording an Action
• Batch Processing
What you will do:
You will process multiple field trip images at the same time. These images are being prepared to be
placed in a newsletter.
Relevance to teaching:
Save time by applying modifications to groups of images rather than changing each image individually.
Lesson overview:
Organize images in a folder, open an
image and record modifications, and
apply those modifications to the
remaining images in the folder.
Tools used:
• Actions Palette
• Batch Process Panel
Skills covered:
• Preparing files to be batch processed
• Recording an Action
• Batch Processing
What you will do:
You will process multiple field trip images at the same time. These images are being prepared to be
placed in a newsletter.
Relevance to teaching:
Save time by applying modifications to groups of images rather than changing each image individually.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Jason Jones visits New York Times
There’s Alex Jones and there’s Jason Jones. The two unrelated Joneses offer competing commentaries on journalism in our times. Amid the hubbub about how we will get the news if newspapers keep drowning in the wrong color of ink, Alex offers a passionate but lucid analysis of where we are and where we might be going. Jason tells jokes on “The Daily Show.”...
from NYTimes Article "The Daily Show," which is a book review on LOSING THE NEWS:The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy By Alex S. Jones, 234 pp. Oxford University Press. $24.95. By Harold Evans
from NYTimes Article "The Daily Show," which is a book review on LOSING THE NEWS:The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy By Alex S. Jones, 234 pp. Oxford University Press. $24.95. By Harold Evans
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