I find it difficult to explain the slow death of print media to my older family members. I try to explain that my generation receives news primarily through social media and the web instead of print. They simply cannot imagine living in a world without newspapers. Like Dean Censer, they are also weary of the […]
Archive for October 18, 2011
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Tags: Danielle Roussey, elderly, generational gap, Her Campus, magazines, print media
Tags: Danielle Roussey, elderly, generational gap, Her Campus, magazines, print media
Having been part of the Twitter world for over a year now, I just recently realized how powerful this social media tool it is. Twitter helped start a revolution in Egypt. A year ago I never would have guessed Twitter would have that much influence in the world. I was just tweeting some stupid comments about […]
The Occupy Wall Street protest has surprisingly reached the one month mark. While the media at large still has not validated the protestors, it has taken more notice of them. The protests, beginning on Sept. 17, started as a small grass roots idea. The concept was to get the power of governing back into the […]
The Today Show is a staple on televisions nationwide and is viewed by millions around the country every morning. The program is mixture of hard news stories, feature interviews and lifestyle segments. For ten years, the Today Show’s lead anchor has compiled a segment for the show that sends him around the world. Where in […]
Storytelling AND Graphics: Glance toward the unknown
Posted by: aramage | October 18, 2011 | No Comment |We’ve been learning about spoken word giving way to the written word. This past weekend, I went to the National Museum of African Art. I saw this picture: I was totally confused. You may not be able to see it but the script making up the face on the left is illegible Arabic. It took […]
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Tags: 1952, Dave Garroway, Douglas Edwards, Heather Blevins, news anchors, Television, Today show, Walter Cronkite
Tags: 1952, Dave Garroway, Douglas Edwards, Heather Blevins, news anchors, Television, Today show, Walter Cronkite