http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/ Mass Media and Public Policy Copyright 2009 Fri, 13 May 2005 01:19:41 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype//?v=1.03 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dodgeball, a mobile social networking service that allows users to identify what friends happen to be close by based on information entered into their cell phones, announced that it has been acquired by Google. With this new mobile social networking... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/002253.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/002253.html Ludwig Fri, 13 May 2005 01:19:41 -0500 The New York Times released a report that identified several steps that the daily news publication should take to improve its credibility among the public, according to "Times Panel Proposes Steps to Build Credibility."... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/002125.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/002125.html Cohen Sun, 08 May 2005 23:47:46 -0500 I had no idea that CNN did this. Check this out. CNN creates a program for teachers to show in classrooms about: "Infidelity is a growing problem in the United States."... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/002031.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/002031.html Walsh Sat, 07 May 2005 15:11:17 -0500 This blog posting will look at two examples of framing, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the AIDS pandemic in Africa.... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001926.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001926.html Hunt Wed, 04 May 2005 00:24:29 -0500 Canadian politics is experiencing a shakeup more serious than any seen within the last decade or more. National Post journalist Don Martin called the series of events "Canada's Watergate," a crisis that can have profound effects on the United States.... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001919.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001919.html Hunt Tue, 03 May 2005 19:32:13 -0500 Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, launched the Open Media Network earlier this week. OMN puts publishers' content into a peer-to-peer distribution network similar to bit-torrent, which helps ease bandwidth issues, and according to their press release, the goal of... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001863.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001863.html Ludwig Mon, 02 May 2005 15:53:33 -0500 The "editorial independence" of PBS has come under fire by the Chairman of the Republican Party, according to "Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases," from The New York Times Online.... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001849.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001849.html Cohen Mon, 02 May 2005 02:51:26 -0500 May 1, 2005 The BBC announced today that it plans to expand the license terms on its numerous RSS feeds to allow other websites to reuse its content. The license currently proscribes that the feeds are only for "personal use,"... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001843.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001843.html Walsh Sun, 01 May 2005 23:30:16 -0500 Blogs are invading all different types of spheres. However, what will be the effects of allowing scientists and engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (which has a history of maintaining the highest level of federal secrecery) to blog? Especially,... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001839.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001839.html Barajas Sun, 01 May 2005 11:07:32 -0500 According to "Blogger Brown: Politician as unvarnished online scribe," which appeared on CNN Online, Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland, California, has taken up blogging. This may have significant implications for the future of politics, since who knows which other politicians... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001832.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001832.html Cohen Sun, 01 May 2005 00:37:24 -0500 Rupert Murdoch predicts the end of newspapers as we know them.... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001760.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001760.html Liu Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:38:15 -0500 Princeton is featured as a perfect campus destination in "Near or far? Student's Wrestle with College Picks," from CNN Online, which discusses the college decision process more generally.... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001709.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001709.html Cohen Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:19:54 -0500 I thought some students in the class might be interested in this....... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001643.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001643.html Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:45:32 -0500 In class, we've noted that the crisis in Darfur has not received much media attention. We've stipulated various reasons â€" paucity of journalistic sources, lack of interest in the region, racism, etc. - for the absence of this story in... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001624.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001624.html Silver Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:58:00 -0500 Here we goooo! Just like in the mocumentary, Google is getting into our brains to serve us better: http://labs.google.com/personalized... http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001628.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/wws309/001628.html Walsh Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:41:54 -0500