Reading: Audiences and Effects
Thursday 10th March, 2011 - 11:23am with 0 comments
Subject: Audiences, Users, Publics, Communities
Reading: Burton, G. (2010). Audiences and effects: defining audiences and exploring their relationships with texts. Media and society: Critical perspectives. Maidenhead, UK, Open University Press: 82-107. Esp. p.102. Read the rest of this entry »
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Reading: Introduction to Metadata
Wednesday 9th March, 2011 - 12:58pm with 1 comment
Subject: Storing Objects and Artifacts
Reading: Gilliland, A.J. 2008, ‘Setting the stage’, in M. Baca (ed.), Introduction to Metadata [Online vers. 3.0]. Read the rest of this entry »
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Reading: The Nature of Indexing
Wednesday 2nd March, 2011 - 5:56pm with 0 comments
Subject: Storing Objects and Artifacts
Reading: Anderson, J.D. & Pérez-Carballo, J. (2001). ‘The nature of indexing: how humans and machines analyze messages and texts for retrieval. Part I: Research, and the nature of human indexing’, Information Processing and Management, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 231-254 Read the rest of this entry »
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On the boredom of today
Friday 12th November, 2010 - 7:33pm with 0 comments
Today was boring. Read: I was bored. Yeah, I’ve got things to do. And obviously I can’t bring myself to start that assignment I have due in about a week, because I was up until 2:00am this morning working on the one I had due today. I’m so glad to be rid of my tutor; she is so smarmy and mean.
My friend has a son to look after. My tutor’s whole “too bad” speech – that was disgusting. Stupid bitch doesn’t know shit about having a kid, I’d bet. I cannot believe her ignorance and lack of sympathy.
She’s freakin’ nasty.
The word artefact can be spelled two ways; the way which I have just typed, or as “artifact”. The fact that she corrected my friend completely angered both of us. Throughout class she kept dumping empty insults at us, saying that we weren’t using phrases properly and that if we weren’t sure, not to use them. I do not understand why half the class found that funny. I did not.
Looking through the works of other students online, I am in severe doubt that any of them used a phrase they were unsure of. Not to mention she made some empty insult about our presentations and how some of us weren’t being clear… some bullshit like that. Everyone did their presentations well, geez.
P.S. woman, I’m sick of journalism.
Right, back to today. I sure have a small pile of things to catch up on – mostly watching television shows, haha – but I didn’t feel like doing them at all. You gotta admit, sometimes you’re not in the mood.
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Because it’s not just about journalists
Friday 3rd September, 2010 - 9:23pm with 1 comment
I’m sick of hearing about journalism! I study communication within the field of information/media. And let me tell you, constantly hearing about journalism or PR (more on that later) in my core subjects or even my sub-majors… drives my brain to explosion.
PR = public relations. I actually didn’t know this until… a year ago, maybe? Whoops, embarrassment fish coming.
I’m really annoyed at hearing about journalism everywhere. Not everything in communications or in the media is about journalism. This week we had a lecture on defamation. Clearly, that was all about journalists escaping being sued for defamation.
Not to mention, a lot of our tutors are journalists, and they tend to have this snobby air about them. My tutor for Communication Industries/Practices last semester was a photojournalist; that in itself being something different, for a change. He was humble, sort of quiet, and very nice. Now we have this freakish clown-guy for our tutor in Regulating Communication. :’( Okay, he’s not bad, but I hate it. :(
The media isn’t all about journalism, fools. Without technical equipment and technology in general, you wouldn’t be broadcasting your shit to the world. Please give credit to those who study media arts and enjoy filming, those who design, produce advertisements, and work with the media itself. There are people who work with databases to organise information, those who have a creative eye.
Not just those who… you know. Write stuff. There are people who want a DCA and not a PhD.
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Reading: Introducing Pierre Bourdieu
Thursday 26th August, 2010 - 11:26pm with 0 comments
Subject: Investigating Media, Reflective Practices
Reading: Swartz, D. L. (1997). ‘Introducing Pierre Bourdieu’, Culture and Power: The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1-14. Read the rest of this entry »
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Reading: How Business Strategy Shapes Media Content
Monday 23rd August, 2010 - 9:36am with 0 comments
Subject: Regulating Communication
Reading: Croteau, D. and Hoynes, W. (2006). ‘How Business Strategy Shapes Media Content’, Chapter 5 in The business of media: corporate media and the public interest, Pine Force, CA. Read the rest of this entry »
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Reading: Power and the Digital Divide
Sunday 15th August, 2010 - 12:02pm with 0 comments
Subject: Regulating Communication
Reading: Moss, J. (2002). ‘Power and the Digital Divide’, Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 4, no. 2. Read the rest of this entry »
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Reading: Developing Reflective Judgment
Thursday 12th August, 2010 - 9:40pm with 0 comments
Subject: Investigating Media, Reflective Practices
Reading: King, P.M. and Kitchener, K.S. (1994). Developing Reflective Judgment. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Read the rest of this entry »
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Reading: Toward a Communication Theory of Power
Wednesday 11th August, 2010 - 7:37pm with 0 comments
Subject: Regulating Communication
Reading: Castells, M. (2009). Toward a Communication Theory of Power. In: Communication Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Read the rest of this entry »