A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.
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About Me
- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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Growing up I learned a lot from my mother... later in life (teenage years to present) almost everything I've learned I've seen or heard from a type of media. Some is just for entertainment, but other more trusted television shows,internet sites, newspapers, etc. you learn and take information with you throughout life.
Today instant media is so much more assessable than the media that was around when I grew up. We did not have access to the internet. TV was used for entertainment. Magazines were used to inform and those magazines now are basically advertising, the content is very different than it was. Radio was mostly news and very few people listen to radio today.
Short of life skills I beleive it would be safe to assume that everything we have learned about local politics, events and other news has come from some sort of mass media. I personally have learned alot from watching the news, sports, and other forms of media.
Everything that I know about the world around me has come from some branch of the world of mass media. All the news, educational materials, and political agenda that I know about has come from some kind of mass media. It is hard for us to obtain information in this day and age without the assistance of the media. The media provides the easiest methods of obtaining mass amounts of information.
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I learned that the world wasnt a safe place from the news(tv). I also found out that there are crazy people that leave near you in police beat(newspaper). I learned about global warming from a video featuring Al gore(school). I learned about people who post video's and share them with the world off youtube.com(internet). I also find out what a center fold was as well:)(magazine)
As a child i was raised in an extremely sheltered household. The only television i could watch was basically religous programming. It wasnt until starting school that i was introduced to "worldy ideas." e.g. mass media. I would say a big part of this exposure came from friends, and eventually television. Children growing up today however, are much more likely to get most, if not all of their media information, from t.v., video games, internet, you name it.
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