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Election Day is Tuesday
It’s finally here. Election Day is Tuesday. The 2012 Election will commence this Tuesday in what may be our nation’s biggest decision. The campaign between Romney and Obama has been blazing for months...
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Newspapers Technically Not In Trouble
Just about 15 years into the ‘online era,’ newspapers are suffering — but not as bad as was once thought. Besides the fact that daily newspaper circulation has been dropping every year for the past two...
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The Golden Age (Extra Credit)
After the Great War America was depressed and looking for something to wash away their memories. They found sport. Throughout the 1920s Americans slowly fell in love with sport through the exploits of...
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Northside social: A progressive coffeehouse
A coffeehouse has always served as a gossip harbor and one particular gossip harbor located in the middle of Arlington, VA is currently the most exciting by far that this caffeine addict has ever...
View ArticleWelcome to the 455/389 Fall Semester 2014
About the blog: I have attached a copy of Mark Potts’ excellent Blogging Primer. Mark is a true Internet pioneer and his primer remains the best how-to-blog document I know. I distribute it with his...
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The Impact of Media; particularly on children
http://historyofjournalism.onmason.com/files/2014/09/14-Untitled-track-14.mp3 The Impact of Media; particularly on children By Joshua Aaron Karber Any scholar, academic, philosopher and even...
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Extra, extra! Tweet all about it!
Modern technology wages war on patience and print. Once upon a time in a pre-Apple world, patience and print were the norm. News was broadcast at certain times of day and not a moment before, human...
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From gossip get-togethers to grab-and-go
Walk into a coffeehouse today, what do you see? A few tables of people chatting, more tables of people by themselves, attached to their iPhone or glued to their laptop or tablet, and the majority of...
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How reliable is word of mouth?
Word of mouth has been around for thousands of years. It starts with one person telling another any sort of information, news, story, etc., which continues on to other people....
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The Travel Industry Booms as Mobile Bookings Increase
http://screenmediadaily.com/mobile-devices-help-consumers-research-travel-and-make-reservations/ Many Americans have started booking their travel reservations on their mobile devices. Rather than...
View ArticleReporting for New York, Baltimore, and Chicago…
Every night millions of Americans turn to their local news station to watch the evening news. According to Conan O’Brian though it seems all these stations say the same thing. Click here to view the...
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A Place for Both Beauty and Brains: French Salons
Today when you think about salons, you probably think about places people go to have their hair polished and styled for a price. However this is not the case for what salons were in the 17th and 18th...
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Martin Luther: 16th century Donald Trump?
When a well-known figure is as prolific as these two were and are, it isn’t hard to compare them both. When you think about it this way, 16th century Martin Luther and 21st century Donald Trump do bear...
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