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

Monday, September 26, 2011

COMM 150: Questions, Chapter 4 "Ink on Paper" and Ch 5 "Sound media"

CH 5: How do issues of creative - ie artistic - control play out in the media that John Vivian discusses in Ch. 5?

Also: What is the revenue stream for each?

Cf. Chapter 4 below:

Who buys newspapers?
Who pays for newspapers - ie what is (are) their revenue stream(s)?

Who buys magazine?
Who pays for (bankrolls) ...

Who buys books?
Who pays for ...

How do these factors influence content?


BONUS QUESTION: Would it interest you to know this was the 50-point question on my midterm when I taught this course a couple of years ago? Just askin'.

1 comment:

A.Kohlrus said...

hmmm.... I would have to say this would probably interest me... just sayin.

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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.