The Global Media Journal is a web resource for finding essays written on global media and its impact on society, culture and individuals. It is a good resource to research communication and to become familiarized with popular subjects regarding modern global media issues. The website is current; the most recent issue was published in spring 2010 and another will be published in the fall. A downside may be the less than useful search bar. The Global Media Journal could prove to be a great tool when trying to brainstorm ideas for the abstract assignment. Though individual articles are property of their respective authors, the webpage is founded and edited by Profesor Yahya R. Kamalipour, Department of Communication and Creative Arts at Purdue University Calumet.
Kamalipour, Yahya R. Global Media Journal: The Global Network of Communication Scholars. Purdue University Calumet, Spring 2010. http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/. September 26, 2010. Web.
Link #1
http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/gmj_pastissues.htm
Within the website is an archive of past issues. Each issue has a particular theme that is displayed through each essay. By clicking on a specific time, the next page shown will tell you the theme of that issue. If there is a particular topic you are most interested in for our class, you can potentially find it and have at your fingertips multiple essays pertaining to that theme.
Link #2
http://www.freepress.net/
The link is for a website called "Free Press: reform media, transform democracy." This website is a resource for current information on exactly what we have been learning in class through the readings of Hardt and Lippman about the relationships between democracy, mass media, communication and the loss of the publics roll in media. The website provides news articles, opinion essays, videos and other mediums tailored to educating people about what is going on with media and communication. Their goal is to reform what they think is corrupt media policy and to reinstate the public as the controlling force of media to make media serve their best interest.
Link #3
http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/sp10/gmj-sp10-article7-mitra.htm
Since our class is about narratives specifically, this article is relevant and important since it offers the idea that each "status update" or "post" on social media networking sites is actually publishing a unique narrative of each author. If this is so, we are all the voices of global media narratives in the digital age. This link provides an example of many of the helpful articles the Global Media Journal can supply.
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