Category Archives: Book Link

Link Ch. 2 – Applying the Spiral of Silence to Social Media

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

German media scholar Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, with her spiral of silence, has raised the question of why people become unwilling to express what they perceive to be a minority opinion. Central to Noelle-Neumann’s argument is that when people believe they are in … Continue reading →

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Ch. 2 Link – Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and the NSA

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

Here are links to several in-depth articles about the NSA whistleblower/leaker Edward Snowden and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who reported on Snowden’s documents. Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets Great article by Janet Reitman from Rolling Stone. … Continue reading →

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Ch. 1 Links – Web comics round-up

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

NOTE: While none of the comics discussed here go much beyond PG-13 in art, they do sometimes have offensive language in them. This is a major update of a post I originally did about 3 years ago: Regular readers here … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 1 – Paul McCartney’s Baseball Stadium Concerts

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

UPDATE: Name of Citi Field corrected. In 2009, Sir Paul McCartney played a concert at New York’s Citi Field, which was right across the road from Shea Stadium, where the Beatles played their first stadium show. Concerts like this illustrate … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 11 – Creativity, Tastelessness, and Grabbing the Advertising Audience

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

In advertising, a tension often exists between creativity and salesmanship.  An ad may do a great job of grabbing people’s attention and generating talk, but if the ad doesn’t have a solid sales message, consumers will not remember the product or … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 15 – “Control Room” documentary on Al Jazeera’s Coverage of War With Iraq

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

Broadcast via satellite from the small Arab country of Qatar since 1997, Al Jazeera has carried interviews with everyone from Osama bin Laden to Colin Powell and has been criticized for doing so by both the United States and Arab … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 5 – Great Magazine Covers

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

Class today was devoted to looking at great/controversial magazine covers from the 1960s to the present day.  In a number of cases we looked at modern covers and the older ones that inspired them. But, as always, I ran out … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 10 – 75,000 people are viewing, playing a single game of Pokeman Red online

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

Guest Blog Post Today we have a guest blog post from the UNK forensics coach Aaron Blackman (who is also my Nintendo video game mentor) about a big group of video gamers who are playing and watching a play-through of … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 3 – Truth about Disney Princesses

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

Pre-class video: Have you ever wondered what happened to the Disney princesses after the movie ended?  Here’s one possibility:

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Link Ch. 5 – Lena Dunham, Vogue & Jezebel – Is there a Photoshopping problem?

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

The level of Photoshopping going on at Fashion/Beauty/Lifestyle magazines has been an ongoing controversy, with performers such as Adele, Kelly Clarkson and Kate Winslet being made almost unrecognizable as photo editors try to make the curvy stars’ bodies comply with … Continue reading →

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