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The Russian Research Center At Harvard Versus Cambridge Analytica: Influencing The Public In A Cold War, Robert Joshua Howard Jul 2020

The Russian Research Center At Harvard Versus Cambridge Analytica: Influencing The Public In A Cold War, Robert Joshua Howard

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The Hyperreality Of Daniel Boorstin, Stephanie L. Viens Nov 2014

The Hyperreality Of Daniel Boorstin, Stephanie L. Viens

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Early media theorists can help us to link the past and present of media literacy to pose new questions and gain new knowledge. Historian, author and Librarian on Congress Daniel Boorstin (1914 – 2004) played an important role in increasing public awareness of the constructed nature of media representations. Connections are explored between constructed reality, technological advances, media literacy education, and the current work of media scholar Douglas Rushkoff on presentist society. Daniel Boorstin helped recognize the changing nature of knowledge in an image-saturated environment and influenced a new generation of theorists, scholars and educators who have advanced the …


Teaching About Propaganda: An Examination Of The Historical Roots Of Media Literacy, Renee Hobbs, Sandra Mcgee Nov 2014

Teaching About Propaganda: An Examination Of The Historical Roots Of Media Literacy, Renee Hobbs, Sandra Mcgee

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Contemporary propaganda is ubiquitous in our culture today as public relations and marketing efforts have become core dimensions of the contemporary communication system, affecting all forms of personal, social and public expression. To examine the origins of teaching and learning about propaganda, we examine some instructional materials produced in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis (IPA), which popularized an early form of media literacy that promoted critical analysis in responding to propaganda in mass communication, including in radio, film and newspapers. They developed study guides and distributed them widely, popularizing concepts from classical rhetoric and expressing them in …


Ua3/9/7 President's Office-Ransdell Correspondence, Wku Archives Jan 2013

Ua3/9/7 President's Office-Ransdell Correspondence, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Selected correspondence not duplicated in the Reading File. Contains incoming correspondence and responses.


The Ursinus Weekly, May 1, 1975, Ruth Von Kummer, George Geist, Jill Leauber, Marilyn Harsch, Carolyn Crandall, Charles Reese, Cathryn Mccarthy, Alan Stetler, Robert Brant, Joseph Saraco, Kevin Gault, Richard Abernethy May 1975

The Ursinus Weekly, May 1, 1975, Ruth Von Kummer, George Geist, Jill Leauber, Marilyn Harsch, Carolyn Crandall, Charles Reese, Cathryn Mccarthy, Alan Stetler, Robert Brant, Joseph Saraco, Kevin Gault, Richard Abernethy

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

S.F.A.R.C. update • Meistersingers: More than music • USGA questionnaire encourages response • New Yorker critic graduation speaker • Medical school entrances • "How to succeed" debuts tomorrow in Bearpit • Editorial: Disgust: By the students, of the students! • Letters to the editor: Meekness? • Alumni meet • Feminism: Where? • Inexpensive or just plain cheap • Actors comment • Conflict simulation activities • 2 games, 2 losses • Tennis time • Intramurals • Focus: Steve Fisher • Flyers go for cup! • Lacrosse lookout • Request