It happened 40 years ago: the Kent State shooting. Four unarmed college students were shot dead by the National Guard. Learn more about it on Wikipedia.
 | And so we remember Thursday, March 25, 2010 as the day every English speaking student failed their research papers. |
“I suggest to follow the reblogging of the first commentary / joke who was posted on Wikimedia’s status page regarding the Wikipedia crashdown which happened this afternoon:Jimmy : And so we remember Thursday, March 25, 2010 as the day every English speaking student failed their research papers.Since around 3 pm this quote got reblogged at least 58 times (indexed by Google), it is now 7 pm ET. Here’s the link for the search : LINK.
| Although none of it (that I’m aware of) has been done to test media ecological principles, there’ve been a lot of neurological studies using fMRI technologies that supports this dichotomy of propositional versus presentational structures of thought. They’ve been able to track synaptic firings across specific neural pathways for different cognitive activities, and it turns out that we really do “think differently” when we read than we do when we use visual media. |
This is an excerpt from the blog of Peter K. Fallon, author of The Metaphysics of Media (The University of Chicago Press, Amazon) and Associate Professor of Journalism at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
In this specific post, he takes a shot at Mike Wesch’s video A vision of Students. Mike Wensch is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. In 2007, Wensch received The John Culkin Award from the Media Ecology Association for his viral video “The Machine is Us/ing Us” (the “Web 2.0” in just under 5 minutes, so it says).
Mike Wesch actually commented Fallon’s post and an interesting discussion ensued.
“Joe Szabo is a teacher, photographer, and author who began his photographic studies at Pratt Institute where he received an MFA degree in 1968. He taught photography at Malverne High School in Long Island from 1972-1999 and at the International Center of Photography in New York since 1978. Joseph Szabo has been photographing his teen-age students for the past twenty-five years, and has perfectly captured the ambivalence of that time of life. As a high school teacher of photography, he takes seriously their pretentions, passions, and confusions, and he knows intimately how students put on, act up, behave, and misbehave. As Cornell Capa says in his foreward, “Szabo’s camera is sharp, incisive, and young, matching his subjects. One can use many adjectives: revealing, tender, raucous, sexy, showy… in Szabo’s hands, the camera is magically there, the light is always available, the moment is perceived, seen, and caught.” In 1978, his book on adolescence Almost Grown was published by Harmony Books and acclaimed by the American Library Association and placed on its “Best Books of the Year” listing. In 1984, he received a Photography fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennial, the International Center of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Brooklyn Museum among others. His work has been collected by many institutions including the Bibliotheque National in Paris, France, The George Eastman House Museum in Rochester, New York, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.” (The Photography of Joseph Szabo).
Illustrated lectures… well I guess PowerPoint wasn’t much of an innovation then, was it? Except maybe when David Byrne started working (playing) with them.
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