The Huffington Post has an article about the 12 worst college campuses for free speech, and UMass comes in at #4.
333 comments so far, interesting discussion on the meaning of "free speech", and the political bent of the organization who provided the list. They also gave UMass an award for "Speech Code of the Year."
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Assignment #1-repsonse to Wahl-J chapters 2-3
One of the limitations of scholarly books is they are, by their nature, out of date by the time they are published. This is not a big problem when writing about Greek history, but is clearly limiting when the subject is as rapidly changing as the media, especially when you consider the influence of the internet.
Journalists and the Public is a relatively recent book, published in 2007. But, that means she was writing and editing it for some years before that, and basing it on even earlier scholarly work. The first quote is in response to a quote from James Carey in 1997. So this quote is commenting on the state of journalism 14 years ago. This is before Wikipedia, Twitter and Facebook existed, before the scales had really tipped toward online content, when the printed version of newspapers was the more important format.
Journalists and the Public is a relatively recent book, published in 2007. But, that means she was writing and editing it for some years before that, and basing it on even earlier scholarly work. The first quote is in response to a quote from James Carey in 1997. So this quote is commenting on the state of journalism 14 years ago. This is before Wikipedia, Twitter and Facebook existed, before the scales had really tipped toward online content, when the printed version of newspapers was the more important format.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Comment requirements
I'm wondering how many news sites restrict comments.
npr.org requires you to register.
You can use your account with open ID, Facebook, twitter, Google, Yahoo or Linkedin.
You can also "sign up for the npr community."
The New York Times also requires registration.
They also moderate comments. I posted one (I already have a login to get alerts) just to see what would happen, and got this:
"Thank you for your submission. Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive."
npr.org requires you to register.
You can use your account with open ID, Facebook, twitter, Google, Yahoo or Linkedin.
You can also "sign up for the npr community."
The New York Times also requires registration.
They also moderate comments. I posted one (I already have a login to get alerts) just to see what would happen, and got this:
"Thank you for your submission. Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive."
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Journalism 391
My final class as an undergraduate student: Journalism as Conversation.
This looks fun. It's a good opportunity to learn more about that new-fangled emerging media all the kids are talking about.
Plus it is a great excuse to spend time on the internet: "Honest, honey, I have to be reading Twitter. It's for my class!"
This looks fun. It's a good opportunity to learn more about that new-fangled emerging media all the kids are talking about.
Plus it is a great excuse to spend time on the internet: "Honest, honey, I have to be reading Twitter. It's for my class!"
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