Archive for February, 2009
The Non-Commercial Press
The Internet as non-commercial press. It comes down to a battle between an institutionalized system and a deinstitutionalized system. The Internet has allowed for all of us to become amateur journalists and put a spin on goings on, or comment and try and sway public opinion from our bedrooms, our desks at work, or from [...]
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The YouTube Generation
A brief discussion about YouTube, and the way that we, the new media are using it. The way in which we are claiming it as our own public space and using it to rebel against our loss of a public voice. This YouTube video was done as a mid-term project for CMN2170B, to discuss a realm [...]
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Barbie Hits Mid-Life (Crisis?).
Fifty years ago, an icon was born. The ideal driven woman, who has overcome divorce from long time boyfriend Ken in 2004, a little under-the-knife-nip/tuck action in 1997, and 110 jobs since birth. Astronaught Barbie, Rock-Star Barbie, Pediatrician Barbie, Canidate for Presidency Barbie, Air-Force Fighter Pilot Barbie, plus 95 other types of Barbie that show [...]
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Hit Me Baby One More Time.
Celebrity blogs. I seriously can not help myself indulge (and/or waste) a couple hours of my day, almost every day. I always thought that I didn’t care to follow the lives of certain public figures but by the time Britney was shaving her head I was hooked. Oh No They Didn’t! Perez Hilton, and The [...]
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