Journalism 120 Students,
Attached are some questions that will be helpful to you in writing your final mass/social media personal function paper that is due as hard copy in class Thursday, December 15th. If you are going to be late in submitting this hard-copy paper, you must on December 15th hand me a written note declaring when it will be submitted. Extensions and pardons are available but not for long!
With the Function paper you will draw your materials from three sources: your media diary, your function readings and lecture notes; and, answering some of these questions way below on this page. You will not answer all of them, but some of the questions will spark memories of your media routines that you can place in your paper in an inspired and organized fashion of about 10-12 full pages.
My wish is that this course has enriched your knowledge so that at least you can tackle some of today’s media controversies from a more sophisticated framework than you possessed starting last September!
Given that we are working within the context of the (still) pandemic, feel free to call me with any questions you might have. My home telephone number is 973-299-1744. However, contacting me by e-mail is best as I routinely answer quickly
See you soon.
Take care.
Donald Allport Bird
Donald Allport Bird, Ph.D.
Professor of Journalism and Communication Studies
One University Plaza
Long Island University, Brooklyn 11201-5372
donald.bird@liu.edu
https://www.liu.edu/george-polk-school-of-communications
http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/journalism
718-488-1153; 718-488-1415; 718-246-6365 (Fax)
Dr. Donald Allport Bird
Credit to Dr. R. Engelman
Revised
PERSONAL MEDIA PROFILE
INTERNET, CYBERSPACE and SOCIAL MEDIA
1. Do you own a cell phone, an I-Phone or a Smart Phone? Why and When do you use it? How? Have you ever come close to being struck by a vehicle as you are crossing a street?
2. Do you have a favorite website?
3. How much and what percentage of your news do you get from the web or favorite blog sites? Do you regularly read blogs, such as The Drudge Report, The Huntington Post, or Slate?
4. Do you video chat or Skype with your friends?
5. Do you regularly use Facebook or MySpace or some other kind of social networking?
6. Do you use Twitter? When and why?
7. Do you maintain your own websites for personal or business uses?
8. How often do you use the internet for your own purchases, such as Crain’s, Amazon.com or E-Bay? What percentage best describes this usage?
9. Do you prefer to use a PC, Apple or Mac, or, I-pad? When, or why?
10.What is the principal use of your computer – word processing, entertainment, business,
other?
11. Do you subscribe to any data bases?
12. Do you use a computer for home-shopping, home-banking, and other consumer services?
12. Draw a rough map of the rooms in which you live, indicating where various communication technologies cited above – telephones, radios, TVs, VCRs, record players, computers, etc. – are located.
