Media Critique

Kim Davis is a catholic Rowan County clerk, who refused to issue a homosexual couple a marriage, just because homosexuality is against her religious beliefs. Kim was harassed by the media and other homosexual couples, and eventually was sent to jail for disobeying the law, but was let out shortly after a few political figures came to protest for her release. Kim Davis now is forced to issue marriage license to all people whether they are straight or homosexual. 

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http://schusterpost.blogspot.com/2015/09/newspaper-lifespan-class-response.html?m=1

I think that Joseph's explanation of newspaper lifespan is very good. I like how Joey goes into depth about how newspaper have evolved so much since they were created and how you can simply type in a few words on the Internet and get several articles about the news you were looking for. I also like how Joey describes how the future of electronics are up and coming and newspapers are dying. His explanation was very interesting and informative. 

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http://lhdailyco.blogspot.com/2015/09/media-critiques-in-general.html?m=1

I think Luke thoroughly explained the lecture on media critiques. All of the information that was stated in Luke's post was very valid and helped me to grasp a better understanding of media critiques.

Mass communication

Mass communication is a message that must travel a distance through space or time. For something to be considered mass communication, it must also receive no immediate feedback, and have a potential to reach a mass audience. If there is no message, then it is not mass communication.

Ways that communication can be interrupted are through a filter (something that is preventing you from decoding the message), environmental noise (something that is outside of your control that is preventing decoding and internalization), informational filter (something that you are unable to internalize about the message), and psychological filter (something that you choose not to internalize and decode).

Some forms of noise may include channel noise (environmental interference such as a storm), environmental noise (prevents from decoding such as a loud  train), or semantic noise (when something goes wrong while encoding such as a person yelling while you are trying to hear another person).

I think that these are valid points to describe how mass communication works and how people can prevent mass communication. The 5 steps of communication were very helpful in teaching me to understand mass communication as well. The 5 steps of communication are: the stimulus, encoding, transmission, decoding and internalization. 

John Peter Zenger

John Peter Zenger's case was probably one of the most important cases of all time, because now truth is the only defense against libel. Zenger's helped journalists all around the world for centuries with his case, but if he had never published any libel, and been sued I can't even begin to imagine how different the world would be. John Peter Zenger's case is even still relevant today. People can publish anything they want about the government as long as it is true. Many people have suffered because of John Peter Zenger, but many have benefitted as well. I think that he will be known for many more centuries to come and I think that his work will continue to benefit others in the future.

Gutenberg

I think that the printing press is an amazing invention but it is irrelevant today because with modern technology, the majority of people read on electronic devices. I think that electronics are easier to use than books because if you are reading and come across a word that you don't know or find a sentence that you don't understand, you can simply just look it up on the device. Most programs make it to where if you touch a word, it will tell you the definition. I think that our generation is very fortunate to have all of the nice technology that is out and if we don't put it to use, then there is no point in having it. 

Newspaper

I personally think that newspapers are out dated because of all of the new technology that is out, but newspapers are condsidered "traditional" because they have been around since 59 BC. Newspapers were all they had in the generation before cell phones and all of the new technology. I think that it is easier to just read the news off of a phone, ipad, computer or television instead of buying a newspaper. Some people would  rather buy a newspaper because newspapers are low tech, and the person might not like the modern technology. Another reason why people might like newspapers is because they are a physical object, and they are shareable. With the electronic format you wouldn't be able to lend your phone to someone so that they could read the news, so I think that newspapers are beneficial in that way. Newspapers are also very cheap and affordable so people who don't have enough money for modern technology can still know what's happening in the world. The way that people get their news has definitely evolved since it first started, but now there are so many other ways to recieve the news.