Career Research Paper Sources

Example career paper from past class. I will give extra credit for creativity.

Links you'll love:
BSL info
Journalismjobs.com
Career Builder 
My old website (slightly dated info, but generally helpful)

Feedback Loop Project

For this project you will provide written feedback to a mass media outlet of your choice on the topic of your choice.

You will need to document your letter to the editor by printing the email or taking a screen shot of your prose. This HARD COPY is due Friday, April 26, at the start of class.

Reclaim Democracy has a helpful tip sheet to get you started. Please use it, AND the guidelines of your specific outlet, to aide in crafting your letter.

Class meeting online Friday, March 22

For this class hour, you have the option to work online to engage with the question of how technology is changing us as people and perhaps redefining our expectations of our fellow humans. This project is due by 9:50 a.m. Friday, March 22. Please email your response, if you have technical difficulties. this project will count as both a daily grade and your participation will count for that day's attendance.

If you would rather not do this online task but instead meet in the physical classroom, no problem. I will see you at 9 a.m. Friday! 

Assignment:

First, listen to the NPR TED Radio Hour segment from March 15, 2013 "Are we plugged in, connected, but alone?"
(in case you need it, here is the link to the entire show)

Second, respond to the segment by commenting to this post.
Address the following:
-What is the danger outsourcing our human responsibilities like raising our children, caring for our elderly, educating our students to technology? Is this danger real?

-How does the frequency and intensity of our media-mediated interactions change us as humans?

And that's it! Engage the topic thoroughly during your out out of class time to take the place of us meeting in person the Friday before Spring Break!

Honors Blogs Want YOU to Follow Them!

The honors students in our class are individually creating blogs on a subject of their choice.

Since we in MSCM tend to be a very supportive bunch, I encourage you to follow their work and promote them amongst your peers.

Also, do YOU have a blog? If so, share it here as a comment! Perhaps you'll get some more followers for your good karma!

Honors Blogs for Spring 2013:

Alicia Avitabile's blog is First World Problems from a Typical College Student. The title speaks for itself!

Sara Ostrander's blog Swiftly in Love is dedicated to her musings on artist Taylor Swift. She also made a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/swiftlyinlove

Emily Buckingham's Flicks by the Brit allow her to celebrate both her English heritage and her love of....duh, movies!


More to come soon!

My Desert Island Media

So...you've played this game before: If you were trapped on a desert island, what is the one media (book, tv show, website, song, cd, etc.) that you'd make sure to have with you to survive the loneliness?

Take one of your entries from your media portrait assignment, the one you would most want with you on that tropical paradise, and share it here.

MLA tip sheet is here.

MSCM Hero and Southern icon Eugene Patterson dies

Check out this story on NPR about AJC columnist Eugene Patterson. He passed away earlier this week.

Here is his most famous (and most moving) column, "A Flower for the Graves".

Follow-up from class: Children not expected to outlive parents

Sad speculation....

A little dated: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/health/17obese.html?_r=0

More recent: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-137523/Parents-soon-outlive-obese-children.html

"Obesity is such that this generation of children could be the first basically in the history of the United States to live less healthful and shorter lives than their parents," said Dr. David S. Ludwig, director of the obesity program at Children's Hospital Boston, and one of the authors of the report.