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Media Twitter: Esports, video games, and the story behind TikTok
Esports making the move into high schools: As high schools embrace esports, students hope parents follow suit – WaPo https://t.co/TUetILUprr — RalphIsNow@rhanson40@threads.net (@ralphehanson) November 6, 2019 Call of Duty’s dark view of Russia is having global consequences for the video … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10
Tagged eSports, social media, TikTok, video games
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Guest Blog Post: Aaron’s going to play video games for 24 hours straight (Is that a smart thing to do? Does his mother know?)
Thanks to Aaron Blackman for this guest blog post about his upcoming 24-hour gaming marathon to raise money for Omaha Children’s Hospital. I urge all of you to at least stop by to watch his stream, and if you feel … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Guest Blog Post
Tagged Aaron Blackman, guest blog post, video games
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Guest Blog Post: Ninja Reshapes Streaming Video Games in 2018
The following is a guest blog post by my colleague Aaron Blackman, who in addition to being a forensics coach and comm lecturer is also a big fan of video and tabletop games. He also streams video games and writes … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10
Tagged Aaron Blackman, guest blog, streaming, twitch, video games
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24-hour Video Game Streaming Fund Raiser
My friend and occasional guest blogger Aaron Blackman is doing a 24-hour live streaming video game fund raiser for Omaha Children’s Hospital. He writes: My wonderful wife Michelle had surgery on her heart when she was 3 years old. She … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 12
Tagged Aaron Blackman, Because I can, fund raising, video games
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Guest Blog Post: The Nintendo Switch – Buying a $300 Console Based on Media Alone
The following is a guest blog post by my colleague Aaron Blackman, who in addition to being a forensics coach and comm lecturer is also a big fan of video and tabletop games. E3 2017 just recently wrapped up, and after … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10
Tagged Aaron Blackman, guest blog, Nintendo, Switch, video games
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Guest Blog Post – Heroes of the Dorm on ESPN2
The following is a guest blog post by my colleague Aaron Blackman, who in addition to being a forensics coach and comm lecturer is also a big fan of video and tabletop games. For the second year in a row, … Continue reading
PewDiePie Rules YouTube
Felix Kjellberg is the most famous person on the planet you’ve never heard of. At least if you are older than 40 and don’t have young people in the house. Kjellberg is the first person in YouTube history to have … Continue reading
Link Ch. 10 – A Fish Named Grayson is Playing Pokemon for a National Audience
As I worked on the fifth edition of Mass Communication: Living in a Media World during the summer of 2014, a fish named Grayson was playing the video games Pokémon Red and Blue on a Game Boy emulator using a motion sensor … Continue reading
Link Ch. 10 – 75,000 people are viewing, playing a single game of Pokeman Red online
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
Posted in Book Link, Chapter 10
Tagged pokemon, social media, streaming video, twitch, video games
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Who has America’s oldest college newspaper? At least eight different papers claim the title. Of course, each paper uses its own standard to determine the “oldest.” (Thanks to College Media Matters from the Associated Collegiate Press) How sexist were ads … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 15, Chapter 6, Chapter 7
Tagged advertising, because i c, media and religion, music business, newspapers, questions, student media, video games
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