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WEEK 4 - FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 28
Session I (~120 minutes)
Transformation of News and Information
How has the new media environment altered the nature of journalism and
reporting, the 24 hour newscast, the decline of local journalism, open-source
journalism, blogging, resource journalism, the difference between information
and knowledge, the "tabloidization" of news, the decline in
young consumers of news and the shift towards entertainment as primary
source of information about the world? How do we handle the information
overload?
" Grant McCracken, Plentitude (Read Appendix B, E, and skim through
the text to get a feel for its argument and format)
http://www.cultureby.com/plenit/html/toc.html
" Steven Johnson, Emergence, pp.152-162
" Cass Sunstein, "The Daily Me," Boston Review http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR26.3/sunstein.html
" Pablo J. Bockowski, "Distributed Construction"
Session II (~60 Minutes)
Guest Speaker: Ashleigh Banfield, MSNBC Reporter
Andrew Hayward, President, CBS News
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