Transcript Group Project

Group Project
• The Power of presentation technology
• What makes a good presentation?
• What makes a bad presentation?
I. Types of Stories
• a. Hard or Feature news
• Hard news is news reporting
• that is known in advance. A
• feature on nepotism in the police
department.
• b. Spot or Breaking news
• Spot news is primarily
• breaking news, chemical spill
• or car wreck.
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The Rise of Mass
Media
The Study of Mass Communication
Meaning
Causation
and
Determinism
Social Reality
Mediation
Power
Identity
Cultural
difference
Place
Time
Mass
Communication
Governance
The Rise of Mass Media
• Mass Communication versus Media
• Mass communication
• Integral to organization of early societies
• Used by churches in the Middle Ages
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Print Media: The Book
• History of Modern media begins
• Mid 15th Century
• Print replaces hand written reproductions
• Codex
• 16th Century
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The arise of the professional author & library
Luther’s translation of Bible
Lead to censorship
Aeropagitica, John Milton
The Newspaper
• Late 16th and early 17th centuries
• Handbills, pamphlets, and newsletters
• Trade and Commerce
• Commercial newspaper
• Printer publisher
• Distinctive from printed book
• Novelty in function for change
Important Phases of
Newspaper Media
• Adversary of established power
• Underground press under foreign occupation
• Twentieth Century
• True “mass” medium
• Twenty-First Century
• Gradual decline
Film
• Late 1890s with movie camera
• True “mass” media
• Leisure
• Other significant uses
• Propaganda
• Schools of film art
• Rise of social documnentary
Turning points of
film and cinema
• Main turning points
• Americanization of film industry
• Television
• Separation of film from cinema
Broadcasting
• Radio
• 90 year history
• Grew out of telephone and telegraph
• Television
• 60 year history
• Grew out of photography and sound recording
• Radio and Television History
• Designed for transmission and reception
• Highly regulated
Communication Revolution:
New Media versus Old
• What is it?
• Main features of “New” media
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Interconnectedness
Accessible to individual users
Interactivity
“Delocatedness”