June 5, 2015
Why We Watch Them Sing and Dance: The Uses and Gratifications of Talent-Based Reality Television Interesting that “American Idol” is used as part of the rationale of the observation, given …
June 4, 2015
Put Uses and Gratifications theory into current practice: How do YOU use the media? How do you encourage others to use or interact with media outlets, particularly in your field? …
May 29, 2015
Broadening the View: HCI and Critical Theory “Technological rationality causes a one-dimensional thinking, in which only one alternative of existence is considered and potential other alternatives are denied.” Dialectical thinking …
ADORNO AND HORKHEIMER QUOTE “…the modern culture industry produces safe, standardized products geared to the larger demands of the capitalist economy. It does so by representing ‘average’ life for purposes …
May 23, 2015
Propaganda Is the New Frontier for Fake Social Media Accounts http://mashable.com/2014/07/22/propaganda-fake-social-media-accounts/ The idea of using fake social media accounts to spread information appears at first like the next iteration of …
May 22, 2015
LDP Question #1: Choose three (3) terms from the Fine Art of Propaganda slide (in the Lecture) and answer the following question: How are techniques from the Fine Art of …
May 16, 2015
Listen to the NPR clip (Links to an external site.). Offer your analysis of the speaker’s perceived views on epistemology, ontology, and axiology. Use examples from the interview to support …
May 12, 2015
Mind of Mass Media Interesting how we as a civilization see each advancement as the immediate demise of something else. I wonder why the concept of people evolving with the …
April 19, 2015
Reports of my disappearance have been greatly exaggerated. The lack of recent posts has largely been driven by the amount of research and writing I've had to complete for school. …
April 13, 2015
“I love data!” There, I said it. My name is, “Ross Schmadebeck,” and I love data. There’s something mysterious, intrinsic, and skeptical with data that makes it of interest for …