Political Narratives/Covering the President http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091130/pl_politico/29993

The headline and lead on this story captured my attention. I found it interesting how the reporter focused his article on narratives and weaved in public opinion.

The End of Mass Communication?

Here's a link to an interesting article referenced by Bennett and Iyengar about the changing foundations of mass communication in general. Should the term "mass communication" be changed to "media communication"? For discussion Monday!

http://www.udel.edu/communication/COMM418/cai/extra/chaffee.pdf

Limited Effects reading

Here is the Bennett & Iyengar article about "A New Era of Limited Effects?" in political communication. You may, but are not required to, substitute this article for one of the required readings for our next and last class meeting.

Have a happy Thanksgiving!

PPT

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From: Gentle Spirit <gentlespirit73@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:11:17 -0600

To: <gentlespirit73.7005@blogger.com>

Subject: Fwd: Focus Group

The SICKO second focus group is Tuesday 11/24 at 12n-3pm in Hodges 233.

Please encourage anyone to attend. There will be refreshments.

Thank you!
Roslyn

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Abstracts

Abstracts are due Wednesday Dec 2 by noon. E-mail me a WORD DOCUMENT (not in the text of the e-mail) with the following information in this order:

Your name as you wish it to be on the program
The title of your paper (I recommend against cute names and the over-use of colons)
Your abstract, 150 words or less (Abstract MadLibs)
(Your name here) is a (Ph.D./Master's/etc.) student in (Mass Communication/Liberal Arts/ etc.). This paper (will/may) be submitted to (insert a specific publication or conference; try journal citation reports in Web of Knowledge)

I will distribute these abstracts as part of a program with the invitation to attend the presentations, which are on Monday Dec 7 from 1:40 to 4:30 (or perhaps somewhat later.) Abstracts are not separately evaluated apart from the paper, but if you miss the deadline you'll have "TBA" next to your name.

Economists Polled http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091123/ap_on_bi_ge/us_nabe_survey

When I worked in news ... I didn't see a lot of stories where economists were polled... found this to be an interesting aspect of this news story

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/21/econonists-say-stimulus-package-rescued-economy-from-free-fall/

Column on a political web site about the economy and whether the stimulus package worked.. includes public opinion poll.. This is the first time I've been to this site.. but found the article and poll interesting.