Name:

Major:

   Communications

Interests:

   track, paintball, hanging out with friends

Daily Website Check:

Facebook (I enjoy it but am also studying modes of online communication for one of my Comm classes )

Who am I? (3 words):

   interested, thoughtful, too busy

Learning Style:

   Visual Verbal

Favorite Quote:

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

Edward R. Murrow, American Broadcast Journalist

 

Useful Links:

è  Writer's Block (Web resource for Communiations Professionals)

è  Radio Diaries (People documenting their lives on National Public Radio)

è  NPR (National Public Radio) (I get a lot of my news from there but enjoy their features too)

è  The Memory Hole (This site exists to "preserve & spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known". It's interesting reading.)

è  UDC (Union for Democratic Communications) (I like these guys; they're working for democratically controlled media -- opposition, alternatives, experimental, etc.)

è  The Paley Center for Media (used to be The Museum of Television and Radio; they support studies about the impact of media on society and people)

è  AIM (Accuracy in Media) (Non-profit citizens watchdog of the news media)

è  PaintBall.com (good reviews & information for paintballers)