Summarize the focus of your essay on GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. Why is this subject interesting or important to you?
Your response is due before midnight Sunday.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Friday, April 11, 2014
Mighter Than the Sword #2
Please post a response to the following question by midnight this coming Wednesday.
After reading the first article below, describe how Smythe's analysis of the causes of press sensationalism differs from Streitmatter's in MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD. Also, read the second article and be prepared to discuss whether the conditions described there are analogous to those described by Smythe and must inevitably contribute to the same consequences. (I may give a quiz if I'm not satisfied that people have done the reading.)
http://www.uiowa.edu/~c019091s/Reporter.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/business/media/risks-abound-as-reporters-play-in-traffic.html?emc=eta1
After reading the first article below, describe how Smythe's analysis of the causes of press sensationalism differs from Streitmatter's in MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD. Also, read the second article and be prepared to discuss whether the conditions described there are analogous to those described by Smythe and must inevitably contribute to the same consequences. (I may give a quiz if I'm not satisfied that people have done the reading.)
http://www.uiowa.edu/~c019091s/Reporter.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/business/media/risks-abound-as-reporters-play-in-traffic.html?emc=eta1
Monday, April 7, 2014
Mightier Than the Sword
Please read for Thursday's class:
http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/3552133?n=267&s=4&printThumbnails=no
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/technology/technologys-man-problem.html?hpw&rref=technology
http://www.npr.org/2014/03/17/290860516/media-startups-short-on-diversity?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=share&utm_campaign=storyshare
http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/3552133?n=267&s=4&printThumbnails=no
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/technology/technologys-man-problem.html?hpw&rref=technology
http://www.npr.org/2014/03/17/290860516/media-startups-short-on-diversity?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=share&utm_campaign=storyshare
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Lanier #2
Discuss how the developments described in the article linked below might be viewed by Lanier (positive? negative? invasive? neutral?), given what he writes in Who Owns the Future? Your response is due before midnight, Sunday, March 30.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/automobiles/to-change-tunes-a-nod-will-be-as-good-as-awink.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/automobiles/to-change-tunes-a-nod-will-be-as-good-as-awink.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
Monday, March 17, 2014
Lanier #1
Below please find a link to article on privacy. Would Lanier agree with the author's perspective? Do they have the same explanation for the crisis in privacy? Do you agree with either or both?
Your response is due before midnight, Sunday, March 23.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/opinion/has-privacy-become-a-luxury-good.html?
emc=eta1&_r=0
Also of interest:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/03/03/285334820/if-theres-privacy-in-the-digital-age-it-has-a-new-definition?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=share&utm_campaign=storyshare
Your response is due before midnight, Sunday, March 23.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/opinion/has-privacy-become-a-luxury-good.html?
emc=eta1&_r=0
Also of interest:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/03/03/285334820/if-theres-privacy-in-the-digital-age-it-has-a-new-definition?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=share&utm_campaign=storyshare
Monday, March 10, 2014
Are You Being Followed?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/09/30/226835934/your-digital-trail-and-how-it-can-be-used-against-you
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/technology/selling-secrets-of-phone-users-to-advertisers.html?hp
And other links of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/opinion/sunday/slaves-of-the-internet-unite.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/24/jonathan_franzen_the_internet_should_be_really_strictly_regulated/singleton/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/opinion/the-bad-news-for-local-job-markets.html?hp
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/opinion/schneier-surveillance-trajectories/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/technology/facebook-changes-privacy-policy-for-teenagers.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/opinion/nocera-a-world-without-privacy.html?src=recg
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/this-video-will-have-you-completely-rethink-how-you-conduct-yourself-online-and-in-person-video/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/us/nsa-experiment-traced-us-cellphone-locations.html?hp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qFW4zwXzLs
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/technology/what-can-be-sold-in-140-characters-thats-now-the-challenge-for-twitter.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/garden/domino-3-0.html?pagewanted=2&hpw
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/technology/selling-secrets-of-phone-users-to-advertisers.html?hp
And other links of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/opinion/sunday/slaves-of-the-internet-unite.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/24/jonathan_franzen_the_internet_should_be_really_strictly_regulated/singleton/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/opinion/the-bad-news-for-local-job-markets.html?hp
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/opinion/schneier-surveillance-trajectories/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/technology/facebook-changes-privacy-policy-for-teenagers.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/opinion/nocera-a-world-without-privacy.html?src=recg
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/this-video-will-have-you-completely-rethink-how-you-conduct-yourself-online-and-in-person-video/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/us/nsa-experiment-traced-us-cellphone-locations.html?hp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qFW4zwXzLs
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/technology/what-can-be-sold-in-140-characters-thats-now-the-challenge-for-twitter.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/garden/domino-3-0.html?pagewanted=2&hpw
Monday, February 24, 2014
Going Deep
Read the handout from the book Deep Ecology. Now apply the questions it asks of technology to screen -- TV, laptops, portables, etc. Based on Postman's analysis in Amusing Ourselves. . . and your own experience, do screen media meet the criteria for a "fully
informed, appropriate technology"? Please post your comments before midnight this coming Sunday.
FYI:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/technology/personaltech/ignore-the-looks-and-embrace-the-phablet.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/28/283523473/a-smartphone-that-tries-to-slip-you-off-the-grid
FYI:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/technology/personaltech/ignore-the-looks-and-embrace-the-phablet.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/28/283523473/a-smartphone-that-tries-to-slip-you-off-the-grid
Monday, February 17, 2014
FAIL
What do you think is the main point of Chuck Klosterman's essay, "Fail"? (Or, to put it another way, why is the essay titled "Fail"?) Can you relate to his predicament vis a vis technology? How so? (Or, conversely, why not?)
Please respond no later than midnight, Sun., Feb., 26. No late or superficial responses will be accepted. Further food for thought:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101056168
http://gawker.com/short-film-about-smartphone-overuse-is-smart-poignant-1189811144
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/24/opinion/obeidallah-new-iphone/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoVW62mwSQQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qFW4zwXzLs
http://gawker.com/louis-c-k-s-explanation-of-why-he-hates-smartphones-is-1354954625?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Please respond no later than midnight, Sun., Feb., 26. No late or superficial responses will be accepted. Further food for thought:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101056168
http://gawker.com/short-film-about-smartphone-overuse-is-smart-poignant-1189811144
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/24/opinion/obeidallah-new-iphone/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoVW62mwSQQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qFW4zwXzLs
http://gawker.com/louis-c-k-s-explanation-of-why-he-hates-smartphones-is-1354954625?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Monday, February 10, 2014
TV, Evening News
Below please find links to two poems. Relate one or both to Postman's theories about TV as a way of knowing. Your response is due by midnight, Sunday, Feb. 16.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172168
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/weekly-poem-tv-evening-news/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172168
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/weekly-poem-tv-evening-news/
Monday, February 3, 2014
Electronic Book Burning
After you have read chaps. 1-4 in Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, please respond to the following question:
Would Postman agree or disagree with the author of the essay below? Why or why not? Draw directly on the reading to support your interpretation.
In addition, do you agree with the essay? Why or why not?
Your response is due by midnight Sunday, Feb. 9.
http://www.evergreenreview.com/120/electronic-book-burning.html
Would Postman agree or disagree with the author of the essay below? Why or why not? Draw directly on the reading to support your interpretation.
In addition, do you agree with the essay? Why or why not?
Your response is due by midnight Sunday, Feb. 9.
http://www.evergreenreview.com/120/electronic-book-burning.html
Monday, January 27, 2014
The 10 Most E-mailed Stories
Examine the list of the 10 Most E-Mailed Stories on the home page of the
New York Times Web site for Friday, Jan 31. When you consider them
as a whole, do any consistent themes or preoccupations (on the part of
journalists or readers or both) emerge? What does the list suggest is
the primary function of the press in America today (informing,
entertaining, rumor-mongering, counseling, editorializing, marketing,
etc.)? Why do you think this function predominates (ideological
reasons, economic reasons, cultural reasons, political reasons)? How
does that make you feel (optimistic, dizzy, despairing) about the
direction of the press and the society it serves? Your response is due
-- remember, no late or inadequate responses are given credit -- by Sunday, midnight.
For further provocation, click on links below:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/01/the-six-things-that-make-stories-go-viral-will-amaze-and-maybe-infuriate-you.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/public-editor/just-the-facts-maam-no-more.html?hpw&rref=opinion
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/25/1039957/-STUNNING-Comparing-U-S-World-Covers-for-TIME-Magazine
For further provocation, click on links below:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/01/the-six-things-that-make-stories-go-viral-will-amaze-and-maybe-infuriate-you.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/public-editor/just-the-facts-maam-no-more.html?hpw&rref=opinion
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/25/1039957/-STUNNING-Comparing-U-S-World-Covers-for-TIME-Magazine
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Free Marketplace of Ideas? Objectivity? Truth?
Read the article linked below. Respond to the following points:
1) What seems to be function of the "press," given the incidents described in the article?
2) Do you believe a press that would function this way serves the public interest? Why or why not?
Your response is due no later than midnight Sunday, Jan. 26.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/01/02/259119343/how-the-media-comes-to-consensus
1) What seems to be function of the "press," given the incidents described in the article?
2) Do you believe a press that would function this way serves the public interest? Why or why not?
Your response is due no later than midnight Sunday, Jan. 26.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/01/02/259119343/how-the-media-comes-to-consensus
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