January 2011
2 posts
1 tag
“The story is told of a medieval student who, having detected spots in the sun,...”
– EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY
1 tag
“Since the very beginning of rational thought, there have been two opposing...”
– Mark Brake, Introducing Science Communication (2010), p26
June 2010
1 post
4 tags
“Such threats [of the death of common culture] have been thematized ever since...”
– Axel Bruns: Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond (2008), pp271-272
April 2010
1 post
4 tags
“I’ve written three historic crime books and I find it ironic that [crime]...”
– Nigel Green, quoted in Brooke (2010) The Silent State, p45
March 2010
3 posts
4 tags
“A study of prime-time newsmagazines in 1997, for instance, reveals a genre of...”
– Kovach & Rosenstiel (2007) The Elements of Journalism, p151
4 tags
“Gentzkow and Shapiro then asked what other factors help explain a...”
– Econbrowser: What drives media slant?
1 tag
“What accounts for this reluctance to run with stories that involve the highest...”
– Why other newspapers ignored the News of the World phone hacking story | Media | The Guardian (is this why blogs as ‘Estate 4.5’ have proved so popular?)
February 2010
1 post
3 tags
“My claim: We have come upon something interfering with political journalism’s...”
– PressThink: The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in Political Journalism
January 2010
4 posts
2 tags
“A lot of the conventional wisdom thinks that the cause of the decline of...”
– Why We Need to Subsidize Journalism. An Exclusive Interview with Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols. | The Progressive
“it creates a power imbalance between individuals and the government. To what...”
– open…: What “Nothing to Hide” is Hiding
“Looking at six major story lines that developed over one week last July, 83...”
– Study Finds Newspapers Lead in Providing New Information - NYTimes.com
3 tags
“In Douglas Rushkoff’s Media Virus, Greg Ruggiero of the Immediast...”
– Rebecca Blood :: Weblogs: A History And Perspective
December 2009
6 posts
2 tags
“Perhaps investigative journalism is a relic of Chalaby’s and...”
– De Burgh, Hugo - Investigative Journalism, 2nd Ed, p50
1 tag
“[In the 1960s] the investigative traditions of reporting that had led, for...”
– De Burgh, Hugo - Investigative Journalism, 2nd Ed
“There is a community of bloggers interested in any topic that appears in...”
– Gruhl et al (2004) Information Diffusion Through Blogspace (PDF)
“We are seeing the emergence of the user as a new category of relationship to...”
– The Wealth of Networks » Chapter 5: Individual Freedom: Autonomy, Information, and Law
“While today the public are no longer mobilized to fight wars as combatants, they...”
– Webster (2003: 64) quoted in Cottle (2006) Mediatized Conflict
“There is also in today’s journalism an equally disproportionate...”
– Starkey, Guy (2007) Balance and Bias in Journalism
November 2009
10 posts
“We may be democratizing certain types of access, but we’re not...”
– “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media”
“They found that search engines are primarily used for fact checking users’...”
– Search engines are source of learning
“Since 1948 newspaper presidential endorsements have favoured Republicans by 78%...”
– Starkey, Guy (2007) Balance & Bias in Journalism
“The FTE system [of Gannett] … recommends that an ‘AI category story...”
– Journalism: critical issues - Google Books
“Two main patterns are evident from the meme evolution timelines … The...”
– Shifman & Thelwall, Assessing Global Diffusion with Web Memetics: The Spread and Evolution of a Popular Joke
“Later research showed that even very simple communication tools could be...”
– Thelwall & Wilkinson, Public Dialogs in Social Network Sites: What is their Purpose?
“Most research suggests that the major SNSs [Social Network Sites] integrate into...”
– Thelwall & Wilkinson, Public Dialogs in Social Network Sites: What is their Purpose?
“The fact that students today almost always write for an audience gives them a...”
– Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
“News stories are written within formats which are designed to make it easy for...”
– James Curran, Newspapers: The Sociology of the Press in Briggs & Colby (eds) (2002) The Media: an Introduction (2nd Ed)
“In every general election during the twentieth century [apart from 1997]...”
– James Curran, Newspapers: The Sociology of the Press in Briggs & Colby (eds) (2002) The Media: an Introduction (2nd Ed)