Ch. 7 – Brian Ibbott’s Podcasting Empire
Colorado podcaster (and friend of the book) Brian Abbott has been posting audio shows online since 2004. He now has a whole host of programs he jokingly refers to as his “podcasting empire.” Here are...
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Guest Blog Post – A former indie musician looks at the Telecom Act of 1996
Matthew Warder The following guest blog post comes from Matthew Warder, who at one time was lead guitarist for a great indie power pop band called “The Argument.” In addition to providing us with lots...
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Portrait of the National Portrait Gallery
I recently was in Washington, D.C. for an academic conference, and fortunately enough, the conference hotel was about three blocks from the National Portrait Gallery and Museum of American Art. I’ve...
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How will the Music Modernization Act help musicians? The new MMA simplifies streaming payments for songwriters, older recorded music and producers. And how does the music industry loses $2.65 billion...
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Did the major television networks collaborate together on deciding to give live coverage to President Trump’s border wall speech? Kinda looks like it. They all gave coverage to 45’s speech, and they...
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Girl Talk, Girl Walk, and the Art of the Long Tail Mash Up
One of the least pleasant parts of writing new editions of Mass Communication: Living in a Media World is making the decision of what material to cut in order to make room for important new material....
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Looking at Hip Hop
Today in my media literacy class we’re going to be taking a look at hip hop, and these are just several examples we will be considering as we discuss the genre and cultural movement. More text to come…...
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LMM News Part 2 (sort of): Hamilton, impeachment and the current news cycle
I started tweeting about Alexander Hamilton and impeachment this morning as a way of avoiding working on my end-of-the semester grading, and it kind of got out of control. Here it is in mildly more...
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COVID19 Patrol: A look at social and legacy media
Memes and social media have been going nuts in the age of work-remotely/study-online/shelter-in-place. Here are a couple that have stood out to me, along with a couple of excellent Washington Post...
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Remembering John Prine –“Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches”
And I always will remember these words my daddy said He said, “Buddy, when you’re dead, you’re a dead pecker-head” I hope to prove him wrong… that is, when I get to heaven –John Prine, When I Get to...
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