Saturday, January 16, 2016

Mass Media blog entry 1

Here’s blog entry zero.

About this Mass Media class:  The notice on the shelf in the bookstore said they should have used copies too—and a used copy would cost almost fifty dollars less than a new one—but I saw only new copies on the shelf.  So I got a new copy, and the bookstore was going to give me a heads up when they got a used copy, and I was going to go back and exchange … and the deadline to exchange was yesterday, and they didn’t get a used copy yet, which is why I’m almost fifty dollars deeper in the hole  L

Yesterday in class, we hit the following seven things from chapter one:  mass communication, culture, technological determinism, media literacy (incl. Silverblatt’s seven-point programme), genre, production values, and The Gutenberg Galaxy.

Other than that, David Bowie died last Sunday—und noch desselben Tages empfing eine respektvoll erschütterte Welt die Nachricht von seinem Tode—and we watched one of his music videos in class yesterday, and we pointed out stuff about (a) the audio, (b) the visual, and (c) the narrative.

Here’s Colour Record No. 315, Side B:



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