By Mindy McAdams
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Books I’m thinking about requiring for my fall course, New Media and a Democratic Society:
Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, by John Battelle
We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by [...]
After I told the umpteenth student about the Safari Bookshelf program from the O’Reilly publishing company, it occurred to me that maybe my students are not the only people who have never heard about it.
What I love about it is that I can keep two great books about ActionScript (both by Colin Moock: AS 1.0 [...]
Writing a 500-page fully illustrated book is a lot of work, so forgive me if I bask a bit.
It is clear that the lessons have been well tested on many students because the author seems to know just where people are likely to get stuck. Lots of tips and warnings help readers past the hurdles. [...]
Pierre who? Yeah, I know. So I read this very nice (and SHORT) piece written by the always excellent Katha Pollitt on the occasion of Bourdieu’s death in 2002.
While reading Bourdieu’s (also very SHORT) book On Television, I can’t help but marvel at how the Internet is hardly even mentioned (I think he might have [...]
“Through Internet portal sites, handheld devices, blogs and instant messaging, we are accessing and processing information in ways that challenge the historic function of the news business and raise fundamental questions about the future of the news field.”
Merrill Brown wrote that about a year ago for the Carnegie Reporter in his introduction to Abandoning the [...]
Tuned Out is the title of a book by David Mindich, a former assignment editor for CNN and now an educator at a small liberal arts college in Vermont. The book tries to answer the question “Why don’t Americans under 40 follow the news?” and it does come up with a few ideas that we [...]
The idea behind this blog is that it can serve as a place to keep my notes, observations and ideas about teaching. Mostly what I teach concerns online journalism. I also teach about the Internet as a communication medium and about technologies of communication in general.
I have just finished the fall semester, and my grades [...]
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