Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The Saddest Things in the Word




We made a list of the "saddest things in the world" in Media Audience this week. The challenge is to figure out how all these are connected to the rather ordinary world of everyday media reception when we write our proposals and do our surveys and interviews. That is how we hope to unseat, or at least slightly disturb, hegemony. Thanks to Anmar for the pictures.





Saturday, October 24, 2009

Extra! Extra! Read All About It...

...Pinball wizard didn't need Baby Genius videos, obviously. Read about the ridiculous baby-conning great media hoax here (note: it ain't the "balloon boy" hoax).

Thursday, October 15, 2009

One Hundred Posts On This Blog, One Lamp In the Heart of Man


Mythic Media is 100 posts old. Here's a picture from rediff of the first subject this blog began with. Happy Deepavali to you too, America.



Sunday, October 11, 2009

Lead Forward, Youth


A famous picture of Mahatma Gandhi, reprinted in an article about the Nobel committee's failure to honor him in today's Hindu. It takes more than awards to know a man.
PS: It takes a child.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Gandhi Jayanthi


Today is Mahatma Gandhi's 140th birth anniversary. Read more here.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

More Audience Links

Here are some more links to things we talked about in class:

1) The Gallup Website
2) Energy and Audiencehood: how much electricity gadgets use, a NYT article
3) The politics of mouseclicks: a Slate article
4) Did the Audience Kill Kings? another article from Slate

Friday, September 25, 2009

Saraswati


Today is the festival of Saraswati, the Goddess of Learning. Among my learnings for today: Name 106 0f 108 of Goddess Saraswati: Himsanasaya Namaha. Defeater of Himsa (cruelty). Talk about a learning outcome.