Watch the clip first. I don’t know what is weirder: 1) the fact that Glenn Beck, in the face of a question he could not answer, screamed at a caller and called her a pinhead, 2) the fact that after the fact he watched the video and defended his actions repeatedly, essentially saying that in [...]
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Rage, Rational Dialogue, and Politicizing Christianity
Posted in Christianity, Media, Politics, tagged Bill O'Reilly, Christianity, conservatism, Glenn Beck, Jesus on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Books: They’re So Last Millennium.
Posted in Books, History, Media, Philosophy, tagged Books, Cushing Academy, Neil Postman on September 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Every now and then I read an article in the news that is so disturbing to me that I find I can’t speak. Let me preface this post by saying that I am extremely interested in technology. I am completing a graduate degree in media studies. I just finished an article on video gaming. But [...]
Clay Shirky and Cognitive Surplus
Posted in Media, tagged clay shirky, cognitive surplus, Media on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the spring of 2008, hordes of people descended on the city of San Francisco for a gathering that some might call a trade expo. This term is slightly misleading, because the Web 2.0 Expo is not necessarily focused on a single trade or segment of the media industry like other media industry trade expos [...]
A Binary Thematic System: Science and Belief in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Posted in Media, tagged belief, science, Star Trek, television, television studies, TNG on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The week of September 28, 1987, the Star Trek franchise boldly took its next step into a new world when Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) premiered in the United States. It was a television show set in the 24th century, approximately 70 years after the original Star Trek series took place. It featured a [...]
Facebook Friending
Posted in Media, tagged danah boyd, Facebook on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
danah boyd writes in an article entitled “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence”, “In June 2006, a group of sociologists argued that Americans have fewer friends now than they did 20 years ago (McPherson et al., 2006). This made me wonder whether social media might be detrimental to friendship maintenance. If social information [...]
Some Hopeful Criticism: The American Family Association and The Timothy Plan
Posted in Christianity, Media, Philosophy, tagged American Family Association, CS Lewis, Stanislav Mishin, The Timothy Plan on June 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A few days ago I received a forwarded email from a relative of mine. It was an email from an organization that was drawing attention to an editorial article in the Russian tabloid Pravda. This article, written by Stanislav Mishin, was entitled “American Capitalism Gone with a Whimper.” Its point was, frankly, rather alarmist and [...]
A 1945 Prophet??
Posted in History, Media, tagged early computers, Media on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am amazed by the fact that credit cards and electronic payment systems, personal computers, and the need for associative informational retrieval and search systems were talked about in 1945 by this guy. You can read Vannevar Bush’s article “As We May Think” in its entirety here. I’m also amazed by the [...]
A book by its cover…
Posted in Christianity, Media on April 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
By now, half the world has heard of Susan Boyle. If you have not, stop now and watch the video of her auditioning for the show Britain’s Got Talent: When I watched this video, it brought me to tears, which doesn’t normally happen on the rare occasion that i watch Britain’s Got Talent. But this [...]
Jon Stewart: Satire and Confrontation
Posted in Humor, Media, Politics, tagged Jim Cramer, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show on March 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It is a sad commentary on our society (and particularly on the farces masquerading as network television news programs) when some of the most poignant criticism and analysis of the culture comes from a show that comes on right after Futurama. This is, of course, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart and [...]
