Hafez notes that even though technology would allow media to flow across national borders, it still tends to flow within cultural groups. Since music is statistically the thing that crosses cultural borders most frequently, I am going to write about…
We Don’t Talk Anymore, We Text
“Text me!” has become one of the most common phrases people use when they first meet each other. Ever since text messaging was first introduced in 1933, the use of SMS (short messaging service) has increased exponentially especially among teenagers nowadays. Despite…
Looking at a Practice of Journalism & Dissemination of News Among Worldwide Asian Diaspora.
Many of CCTVNews’s facebook status posts include screen snapshots of popular twitter feeds, use references to conversation on Twitter. But they rarely linked to longer, business-like articles. I used google to find the more legitimate-looking, ‘official’ versions of the CCTVNews articles on…
Additional Thoughts on Today’s Lecture 8/6
In class we talked about mediums that were introduced into the world and had potential scares associated with them. A few examples were television and how individuals were scared of losing time with family or being spied on, security cameras…