All who are fascinated by Google should add "The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)" to their reading list. This book by media scholar Siva Vaidhayanathan is an essential companion to Ken Auletta's "Googled" and "What Would Google Do?" by Jeff Jarvis.
Newspapers are doomed, and they basically have themselves to blame for their sorry state of affairs. Perhaps more alarming, however, is the threat failing newspapers pose to journalism in the United States, and the larger threat to democracy. Robert McChesney and John Nichols lay out the crisis in U.S. media in their book, “The...
This won’t be the year that students in my Media & Society class at LBCC bring their iPads to class so they can make notes on key points from the textbook, save related videos on their YouTube playlists, and post questions and comments via Twitter. But that’s only because the text we’re using isn’t...
The more I use Twitter, the more I like it. And the more people use it, the more funny videos people are bound to make. Here’s a new one that my students will love this fall in Media & Society … or whenever. -rp- p.s. To learn more, follow me at twitter.com/robpriewe
As with most other programs at Linn-Benton Community College, Journalism classes for Fall Term are quickly filling up. Now is the time to sign up if you hope to take News Reporting or Media & Society. It’s TOO LATE to register for Introduction to Photojournalism (JN134), which already has hit its maximum enrollment. News...
At the end of the interview with Julian Assange the TED audience gives the founder of WikiLeaks a standing ovation for his organization’s commitment to shining light on the secrets of governments around the world. In the video, taped and posted earlier this month on TED.com, Assange discusses the aims of WikiLeaks, along with...
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Next week, the Media and Society class at LBCC will examine new technology and the Internet, including social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook and blogging. Here’s a fun video about Twitter from College Humor. -rp-
When we get to the newspaper unit in LBCC’s Media and Society class, one aspect of newspapers we agree that we like is how you happen upon stories, photos and other items that catch your interest as you turn the pages. You learn about things that you weren’t necessarily looking for. You become engaged...
Over the break, I finished reading Clay Shirky’s book, “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.” It’s an interesting exploration of society, the Internet and how social media (e.g. blogs, Facebook, Twitter) is changing the way we communicate. Shirky emphasizes the power of the Internet as a tool to organize, and how...
Here’s a sneak peak of a video I plan to show Spring term in Media & Society, a class I teach at Linn-Benton Community College. The video, one of many fine works produced by TED (Technology, Education, Design), features Jane McGonigal of the Institute for the Future. In this video she shares her optimism...
