Corporations like Verizon and Pepsi Co. are creating their own news sites to promote their agendas and are using trendy site names like SugarString and GreenLabel to make the outlets seem like alternative online news sources. Both companies have contracted popular magazine called Complex Media to create and run the sites for them. The sites […]
Archive for November 4, 2014
under: Comm 455
Tags: corporate media, ethics, integrity, Journalism, non-profit journalism, pepsi, verizon
Tags: corporate media, ethics, integrity, Journalism, non-profit journalism, pepsi, verizon
The wonders of nature: when disaster strikes in the public eye
Posted by: kasibumgarner | November 4, 2014 | No Comment |During the 16th century, pamphlet readers were exposed to a variety of content. This news often affected the readers themselves, or large groups of people elsewhere. One of the primary topics covered in this “developing news market” was natural disasters and other natural phenomena. The instinctual fear and curiosity about the unknown would drive these […]
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Tags: 1570, 16th century, All Saints Flood, Comm 455, kasibumgarner, natural disasters, Pamphlet, Sensationalism, wonders of nature
Tags: 1570, 16th century, All Saints Flood, Comm 455, kasibumgarner, natural disasters, Pamphlet, Sensationalism, wonders of nature
For centuries, Latin was the dominant language in what was then known as “Christendom.” It remained dominant for so long for three main reasons: 1) It was an international language for the elites. The elite and literate across Christendom could understand Latin in both its verbal and written forms. This gave the language a feeling […]
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Tags: Augsburg, bbukovic, Christendom, German, latin, Luther, Martin Luther, vernacular
Tags: Augsburg, bbukovic, Christendom, German, latin, Luther, Martin Luther, vernacular
The Flugschriften and the emergence of a shorter publication
Posted by: evansp12 | November 4, 2014 | No Comment |Flugschriften first appeared in the 16th century. These were published news in the form of short pamphlets. Flugschriften, which means “pamphlets” in German, came about at the time of the reformation. Many of them focused their writing around the propoganda of the Reformation movement, the Thirty Years War, the French Revolution and the Peasant’s War. […]
Redefining the publishing market in the 16th century
Posted by: kponcian | November 4, 2014 | No Comment |“What emerges from the 16th century is a reading public ready to invest in printed material from broadsheets to pamphlets to books that went beyond their trade or devotional lives.” Over the 16th century, the publishing market was refined: news pamphlets recorded local news in addition to foreign sensationalized news, sensations were the stock […]
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Tags: 16th century, broader market, Europe, Kponcian, Literacy., local news, News, press, printing press, Publishing, Renaissance, thirst for news
Tags: 16th century, broader market, Europe, Kponcian, Literacy., local news, News, press, printing press, Publishing, Renaissance, thirst for news