An Interesting Link about the Future of Media

Hey y'all...DeLuca emailed us this link for our Enviro Comm seminar--it's eerie in a "1984" kind of way, but intriguing nonetheless. Check it out--it's just an 8 minute clip that focuses on the future of the media (and made me consider the recent actions of Google more seriously):

http://www.lightover.com/epic/

Introducing Top Ten Book Lists

I noticed how some professors throw around book titles we "should read" in class, and so I decided to start to compile a "Top Ten Books Any Scholar Worth Their Salt Should Read" list from some of my professors. I will launch it off with the amazingly well-read Dr. Thomas Lessl:

1. Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures
2. Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy
3. C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
4. Roland Barthes, Mythologies
5. Hayden White, The Content of the Form: Narrative
Discourse and Historical Representation
6. Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics and Gnosticism: Two Essays
7. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man:
A Christian Interpretation, vol. 1, Human Nature
8. Marcello Pera, The Discourses of Science
9. Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism
10. Mircea Eliade, Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return.

Everybody should chip in and collect a few of these -- either inside or outside department, even other schools. I think they could be an incredible resource.!!

Wow! Talk About Visual Rhetoric

You must check out this blog -- it is a person with journalism training posting news media images and analyzing the effects of the visual rhetoric. The stuff on katrina and iraq is amazing! This is probably the best blog I have ever seen

http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/

Blawgers Beware!

I thought this might be of interest to some of you aspiring bloggers--I mean scholars.

It is a recent article in "The Chronicle" entitled,

The Blogosphere as a Carnival of Ideas

Enjoy!