I only have one nuclear family picture. It is not professionally taken Or beautifully framed. Its chipped and ripped From being poorly maintained. It’s the only picture I have Of my father, mother, sister & I. It is so old And I was so young You wouldn’t even recognize. Regardless, It is special to me […]
American Independence Day, July 4th, has always been a conflicting holiday for me as a black person. That conflict was ignored year after year until 2016 when that conflict was illustrated gruesomely after the police murders of two innocent black men, American citizens, just after the United States’ celebration of White America’s independence. Rest in Power […]
Quarter: Fall 2015 BISMCS 333: Media and Communication Studies Professor: Susan Harewood Andrea Hunter argues that the practice of journalists using crowdfunding in order to fund their projects creates conflict between their role as objective reporters and their responsibility to their funders. She also argues that the practice of crowdfunding challenges the fundamental elements of […]
Quarter: Fall 2015 BISMCS 333: Media and Communication Studies Professor: Susan Harewood In the recent years the media industry has changed significantly. In Media, Markets, and the Public Sphere David Croteau and William Hoynes explain why with two perspectives that scholars use when examining changes within the media industry. The first is the more popular […]
Quarter: Fall 2015 BISMCS 333: Media and Communication Studies Professor: Susan Harewood Making News: Truth, Ideology, and Newswork Stuart Allan uses this chapter to explain the influence of journalists and news media in constructing ideology of modern society. He argues that the process by which journalists select an event and interview storytellers also play a […]
The following poem was written when I was a student as a submission for the Clamor Art Journal. It is inspired by America’s use of blackness as a symbol of negativity. This places a label on Americans who use black as a label for their ethnic identity. I am Black. I’m black Black market, black cat, […]
Quarter: Fall 2015 BISMCS 333: Media and Communication Studies Professor: Susan Harewood Lawrence Grossberg’s text on Ideology uses several theories, drawing upon the work of Karl Marx, John Berger, and Plato as evidence to prove that there is no ‘right’ way to explain how humans interpret reality. Grossberg begins with this definition of reality, “a […]
Quarter: Fall 2015 BISMCS 333: Media and Communication Studies Professor: Susan Harewood Carey’s argument makes a case for scholars to understand communication studies through a ritual view rather than directing all of their focus towards the transmission view. This argument allows for the adjustment of the transmission view of communication, in which a message moves […]