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.

The first day

Quick now, in 150 very insightful and specific words address the following:

How mass media shaped you?
What questions do you have about mass communication that you hope to explore in this course?