Tuesday, August 28, 2007

UNT JOUR 4250: Race, gender and media: A methods approach

Welcome to the class. This blog will help us stay in touch, and your own blog will help me understand your perspective as we move through the class. Your first job during the first week is to establish your own blog at blogger.com.

It's a fairly easy process, but be sure to write down several things as you set up your blog: your blog title (this blog is called "Race, gender ...."); and your blog's URL or web address (this blog's URL is lambiase4250.blogspot.com). Note that my blog does not have the word "blogger" in its URL, but "blogspot.com." Also, the URL does not contain "www." Neither will your blog.

Be sure to record these things, plus your password, too.

Once you've set up your blog, please write a first-week entry about your news habits. How do you get news? How often? What do you read and view both online and offline? About how many hours a day or a week do you intentionally seek out news coverage? And one last question: when you think about news media and their coverage of race or gender or sexualities or disabilities, what are your own assumptions?

I hope you've had a good first week on campus, and I look forward to getting to know you in class. Have a nice weekend.