A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Friday, April 09, 2010

COMM 150: In-class assignment

Sum up what's in Ch. 14 and post as comments to this blogpost.

7 comments:

hosby said...

Chapter 14 summazies how the entertainment field uses the media to get the "story" to the masses. How it began and how it has evolved over the years.

rachel said...

Storying telling, music, sports as media, entertainment, sex as media content, performance as a media entertainment, entertainment in history.

rachel said...

Storying telling, music, sports as media, entertainment, sex as media content, performance as a media entertainment, entertainment in history.

Britt Fuzz said...

Chapter 14 summarizes up the entertainment in history, the performance as media entertainment, sports as media entertainment, sex in the media content and gaming as media content.

smcpherson said...

Chapter 14 is all about how the media uses research to find the most successfull means of making money. The media uses surveys to help pinpoint target consumers. Besides surverys they measure broadcast ratings to see which shows and radio stations are most popular. Not only are television and radio audiences monitered, but recently internet audiences have been measured also.

Cait131 said...

Chapter 14 summarizes a few different things, such as music, entertainment, sex and sports in media, making money, and gaming. Mainly things about how things are used in media as well.

Cody said...

chapter 14 summarizes how media uses various tools such as entertainment, sports and other forms of entertainment to make money.

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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.