Com 475 Round 2 of essays

Consider it your “midterm.” com-475-due-10-23
Download the document and follow the instructions on there. Any questions, just ask. This is due 10/23/08. If I am feeling generous, it might be all we do, aside from talking about the final project. We’ll see….
And yes, you read that right, final project. It’ll be here before we know it!

Com 300 game

so if you’re playing the game and don’t get it, here’s what I sent to one student, hopefully this will help all of you:

Com 398: So when am I going?

Presenting their findings from the bib on Wed 4/16:
Natalie, Mindy, Krystin, Matt M, Matt G, Katie, Miranda, Jenna, Lily, Solmarie, Claire, and Tawnie
Presenting on Fri 4/18:
Ed, Jordan, Matt R, Quinneka, Denny, Scott, Risha, Nick, Libby, and Chris.
Monday 4/21: Brian and any spill-overs.

Com 300 Wed. class

Based on our class discussion Monday and the questions that you all turned in, I think we need to spend a lot more time on Chapter 18, as well as talking about media responsibility, effects, and race issues. Please remember to bring your books to class on Wednesday so that when I refer to a [...]

COM 398 RP1

RP 1 (response paper) is due next Wednesday, March 12th. I will not accept late work. Download the assignment from your page. (It’s in word) And as always, e-mail me if you have questions!

Com 300 “that’s crap reporting”

For Monday read (from the book) pages 512-514 and pages 306-318 (it doesn’t matter which you read first really, though I suggest reading 306-318 first). Ask yourself:

What do I think about this theory?
Is it worthwhile for looking at media?
Is it more appropriate for a particular medium?
What questions or comments do I have about this theory?

Write [...]

Com 300

No reading for Friday. There’s a radio clip I really want you all to listen to in order to start talking about the next two theories: Agenda-setting and gate keeping. I personally feel like these two theories go hand in hand.
A lot of what we’ll be talking about next is most often studied in the [...]

COM 300–Friday’s class!!!

  So I was about to curl up and re-read McLuhan….And discovered that the copies I gave you only copied every other page. Since no one has e-mailed me I assume 1) you haven’t even done the reading or 2) you just tried to make it make sense anyway.
So tomorrow we’ll continue with the questions [...]

Com 398

For tomorrow:
Many of you wanted to talk about sex and relationships. Bring in 2 questions you have about these topics to ask the class.
Nonverbal observation assignment is posted on the COM 398 page.

Mass Com-ers

Here’s your homework! DUE: Feb 11th
Mass Com Advertising HW
Also, for some of you I’ve noticed a theme in your questions for class (that’s not a bad thing!). For others, not so much. (Again not bad). I’d like to start assigning the first response paper, but I’d like to know what you’re interested in. For example one [...]