Friday, Feb. 12. Last night I got worried and skim-read the rest of the textbook ... it's going to get better after midterms. (Translation: At least I'll like it better.) Which leaves us a problem of what to do between now and your midterm. Let's write the midterm in class Monday, Feb. 22. I think there's so much random information in the first 10 chapters of Vivian, we'll learn more if we concentrate on a few questions - basically the ones I plan to ask for the 50-point essay - and go back through the book next week in addition to doing Chapter 10 on the Internet. So bring your books next week.
In the meantime, our notes from Wednesday (below, after the dotted line) will be a good start on this. We'll ask basically the same questions about print media, too.
- pe
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Records -
movies
and radio
1. How do people make their money [structure of the industry]? Cite textbook and/or internet pages (p. 000).
-- How are artists paid - and how do they exercise artistic control?
-- What is the role of distributors - e.g. record companies, film studios and broadcasters?
2. How are the internet and digital technology changing this?
For Friday -
• Read Ch. 9, Television.
• Find out and post: Who was Philo Farnsworth and how much TV did he allow his children to watch?
First one to post the right answer gets double credit.
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- 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.
4 comments:
philo farnsworth was a farmer born in idaho who invented the television. he did not let his son watch any programs after learning what it could do.
Philo Farnsworth is noted for inventing the television. He told his son this quote pertaining to watching tv. There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet."
Philo Farnsworth invented the first electronic television system. He believe he created a monster therefore he did not let his children watch it under his househould.
Philo Farnsworth although not well known, is credited with inventing the television. Amazingly the idea came to him when he was only 14. When asked if his device could painful when used, he responded "sometimes it's most painful." Since he felt this way he wouldn't let his son watch the television in his house.
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