Mass Communication: Living in a Media World
Video and Multimedia
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Video Link
Video Link 4.1: Check out a video history on the development of modern alphabets.
Video Link 4.2: Are emojis taking us back to the Dark Ages?
Video Link 4.3: Was Johannes Gutenberg the most influential person of the second millennium?
Video Link 4.4: Watch an interview with author Simon Winchester.
Video Link 4.5: Watch a demonstration of Apple's e-textbooks.
Audio Link
Audio Link 4.1: NPR's full interview with Coates.
Audio Link 4.2: Students are fighting back against textbook publishers.
Audio Link 4.3: Change is the Only Contstant in Today's Publishing Industry.
Web Link
Web Link 4.1: Publishers are Using Twitter to Identify new words for the dictionary.
Web Link 4.2: Check out the U.S. Publishing Office website.
Web Link 4.3: Check out the four separate New York Times bestseller lists featuring books targeted at children and young adults.
Web Link 4.4: Read more about challenged books.
Web Link 4.5: Read more about how Anne Frank’s famous diary has been in the news.
Web Link 4.6: Read more about threatened authors.
Web Link 4.7: As Publishers Fight Amazon, Books are Vanishing.
Web Link 4.8: Keep up-to-date with content from the author’s blog.