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Link Ch. 5 – Beauty, Size & Age Part IV: A Very Special Issue
One issue that has stayed in my book Mass Communication: Living in a Media World has been the issue of beauty, size and age in magazine advertisements and editorial content. While the previous three posts date back a couple of … Continue reading
Link Ch. 5 – Beauty, Size & Age Part III: Kelly Clarkson & Self Magazine
One issue that has stayed in my book Mass Communication: Living in a Media World has been the issue of beauty, size and age in magazine advertisements and editorial content. Here is the third of three posts that look these … Continue reading
Link Ch. 5 – Beauty, Size & Age Part II: The Woman on p 194
One issue that has stayed in my book Mass Communication: Living in a Media World has been the issue of beauty, size and age in magazine advertisements and editorial content. Here is the second of three posts that look these … Continue reading
Link Ch. 5 – Beauty, Size & Age Part I: Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty
One issue that has stayed in my book Mass Communication: Living in a Media World has been the issue of beauty, size and age in magazine advertisements and editorial content. Here is the first of three posts that look these … Continue reading
Posted in Book Link, Chapter 5
Tagged advertising, body image, magazines, Secret 3, Truth 3
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Link Ch. 6 – War correspondent and journalist extraordinaire George Esper, RIP
NOTE: Updated with new video, 6/6/2014 George Esper died last night. He was 79 years old. He, along with Peter Arnett, was the last western reporter to leave VietNam after the fall of Saigon. And it seemed like he … Continue reading
Link Ch. 4 – Gutenberg’s Influence
Back in 1999, A&E’s Biography program profiled the top 100 influential people of the Second Millennium. They’re number 1 pick? Johanne Gutenberg. Can’t argue with that.
Link Ch. 5 Annie Leibovitz: Still a Dominant Image
I was debating today whether I ought to keep famed magazine photographer Annie Leibovitz as the opening vignette for the magazine chapter of my media literacy book Living in a Media World. sOn the one hand, I think that the … Continue reading
Link Ch. 4 – A History of Writing
Dr James Clackson, senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge, explains how we got our alphabets in this video slide show from the BBC.
Posted in Book Link, Chapter 4
Tagged alphabets, media history
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Link Ch. 2 – Julian Assange & WikiLeaks
Read more about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: The New Yorker: No Secrets: Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency Rolling Stone: Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview Salon: Assange: Bond villain — or Bourne? The Economist: Missing the point of WikiLeaks … Continue reading
Link Ch. 2 – Research on Perception of Bias
Here’s an article from the Washington Post on how news consumers perceive bias in stories the view or read. There’s also a link to a chat session that covered, in part, that article: “Two Views of the Same News Find … Continue reading
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