Category Archives: Chapter 4

Pre-class and In-class video: Talking About Books

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

Several videos for our discussion in class this week about books.  And yes, I’m running about a week behind in class.  There was way too much to talk about in the business chapter! History of the Printing Press Back in … Continue reading →

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Basic Kindle e-book reader on sale for $49

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

If you’ve been thinking about buying yourself a Kindle e-book reader, today might be the day to pull the trigger on it.  Amazon has them on sale right now for $49 for the smallest, lightest, most basic version.  (There’s a … Continue reading →

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Pop Culture Roundup

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

World’s Oldest Romance Writer Passes Away at Age 105 And she so doesn’t fit into your stereotypes.  (Unless your stereotype is of someone who was supposedly conceived during an affair with a Russian duke… DiGiorno pizza gets good response to … Continue reading →

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Reposting – Questioning The Hunger Games

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Last evening I went to see the movie Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games with students in my media literacy class.  As you all no doubt know, Suzanne Collins wrote the hugely successful young adult three-volume series that … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

How are News Corp. and the Fox Group doing post corporate split? Better than expected.  Bigger is increasingly not necessarily better. Is there more than one standard of beauty out there? Increasingly, it looks like the answer is “Yes.”  British … Continue reading →

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Media News Roundup

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

USB ports replace cigarette lighters in Hyundai cars As if we needed any more proof that mobile media devices are addictive! iPhones are more important than cigarettes! FAA backs letting people use mobile media during take-off and landing And they … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 4 – Portrait of an Attempt to Ban a Book in Minnesota

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Omaha author (and former newspaper columnist) Rainbow Rowell did not grow up well off.  She wrote back in her column back in 1997 that, “We went from desperate to poor.  And poor felt so good.” In Eleanor & Park, her award-winning … Continue reading →

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Banned Book Week

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

It’s the American Library Association’s annual Banned Book Week, which draws attention to books that have been challenged in libraries or classrooms over the last year. I’ve long had somewhat ambiguous feelings about Banned Book Week.  On the one hand, … Continue reading →

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Kickstarter and Books

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

I’ve been reading up on Kickstarter the last few days – hence the last couple posts.  Here are a few more: Getting advance support from readers dates back to at least the early 1700s Alexander Pope used pre-funding in 17134 … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 4 – Thinking about Anne Frank

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

When my family went to Europe five years ago to visit our son who was studying in Germany, one of the most profound things we did was visit the Anne Frank house where she and her family hid from the … Continue reading →

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