Sender The message or idea creator chooses to send out the message. The source of the information, attitudes, knowledge about the subject for the message Receiver The person or persons receiving the message are the receiver. Those who may or may not take action on information received. Encoding The encoder sets up the structure, format, [...]
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Communication Model
Posted in Mass Communication on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recognizing the 1st Amendment
Posted in Mass Communication on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First of all it felt deceptive and disrespectful to ask people if they would support the law (reading the first amendment) if it were considered by Congress. I seriously questioned if I wanted to participate in the exercise. I don’t think actually doing it changed how I felt about the assignment. My roommate, a 42 [...]
Intellectual Property
Posted in Mass Communication on November 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
When a person creatively designs a product, art or musical property they then work to share that design in such a way that they can get credit for it. That credit usually includes pay for their time and effort and the value it is for others to use. They may need to obtain trademark, patent, [...]
The Short History of Blogging- Scavenger Hunt
Posted in Mass Communication on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.blockstar.com/blog/blog_timeline.html http://nymag.com/news/media/15971/ Blogging began as lists of websites in 1993 with NCSA and Netscape. Then there were the beginnings of news sites for specific groups. Jorn Barger first coined the term web log in 1997. Camworld came out with a list of web log sites in 1998 and Peter Merholz began the term wee-blog which [...]
Media Background
Posted in Mass Communication on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It seemed surprising to me that Twitter is being used as a business tool. I have not gotten involved in Twitter and the little I knew about it seemed like it would be a waste of my time. Clearly I will have to visit Twitter and learn more. My field has been print with flyers, [...]
