COMM 2527 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Posterous, Xml, Blogosphere

• School: Fordham University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMM 2527
• Professor: Nicholas Leshi

Document Summary

Means of communication that reach of influence people. Person to person(s) to broader reach of message (mass media) Traditional media vs. new media (print vs. electronic) Shift from uni-directional mass media to participatory media, where viewers and readers become creators of media. Blog - short for web log - online journal or diary, written by an individual, group, or corporation. Blogger - someone who blogs; also name of google"s blogging platform. Topic - broad or as narrow as you would like. Title - choose a catchy, but simple title. Write a brief mission statement - a short, written statement of purpose; declaration of the overall goal; a brief summary, approximately one or two sentences. Select a blogging platform - blogger, wordpress, livejournal, movable type, open diary, expressionengine, squarespace, posterous, twitter (miro-blogging), tumblr, etc. Easy to use to enter a title, body of text, images, etc. Have no limits on the length or brevity of posts.