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Dr. Wachanga

Lecture - Kevin Sites

Please mark your calendar for Kevin Sites' lecture, Monday Feb. 16, 2009, 7 p.m. at the Young Auditorium.

Kevin Sites, a pioneer of solo journalism, was labeled by Times Magazine as " the web's best war correspondent." In November 2004, as an NBC News correspondent, he filmed and reported on one of the defining moments of the Iraqi war when he videotaped a U.S. Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi insurgent in a Fallujah mosque. Sites was honored with the Payne Award for ethics in journalism for his courage of the event. As Yahoo!'s first news correspondent, he spent an entire year covering every major global conflict for the award-winning documentary " Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone." His web site won a 2007 Webby for the Best News/Documentary/Public Affairs site for its coverage of the Israeli-Hezbollah War.
(From Contemporary Issues- Lecture Series, Spring 2009)

Social Media

Visit http://mashable.com to follow developments and changes in social media. Please check a Jan. 21 post on Presidential inauguration and the ways social networking operated on that day.

Students' Blogs

Brake, Kristen:http://kristenbrake.blogspot.com/
Cruckson, Hannah:http://hcruckson.blogspot.com/
Donahue, Ryan:http://rchurchdonahue.blogspot.com/
Gumz, Tim:http://timgumz.blogspot.com/
Hegwood, Zarkey:
Hornby,Jodi:http://hornbyjl15.blogspot.com/
Motsinger, Christine:http://speech440class.blogspot.com/
Nethicumara, Don:http://nethicumdj25.blogspot.com/
Oestreich, Erin:http://erinoestreich.blogspot.com/
Rusk, Kimberly:http://wwweducation-kim.blogspot.com/
Schwartz Jr, James:http:JimSchwartzblog.blogspot.com/
Simmons, Cole:http://simonsays917.blogspot.com/
Sweeney, Michael:http://www.sweeneymp.blogspot.com/
Tait, Robert:http://taitrt21newcomtech.blogspot.com/
Thune, Lauren:http://breck-lauren.blogspot.com/
Verwey, Kimberlee:
Vlisides, Victoria:http://dearhistory.blogspot.com/

New Communication Technologies?

All three of today’s fast-changing communication technologies have existed for more than half a century: Bell Graham invented telephone 1870s; the first television transmission was in 1926 (Worldwide, only a mere 8,000 households had TV sets in late 1940); and the electronic computer was invented in the mid-1940s.
Why have changes in these three ares been so recent, yet so far reaching? If these technologies have been around for that long, what, then, are the " New Communication Technologies?"