1) Announcements
* No class on Sep. 18th. We're back to school on Sep. 25th.
* New schedule: as of Oct. 2nd our new schedule is from 8.00 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. with breaktime from 10.30 to 10.50 a.m.
* Pizza Party: bring the required supplies for this 20m get-together!
2) Homework
A. Write a 1 1/2 page essay about any of these topics:
1. Impact or content? Ratings vs quality in program broadcasting
If you were a public broadcaster from Multimedios, would you pay more attention to ratings (even if this will inevitabily entail a lowering of quality) or would you focus on the core business of quality programming (eve if this means that your audience is likely to become smaller in the short-run)? Explain your reasoning.
2. Do you think of visual medias as a mean to enrich people's mind (the transmission of knowledge) or significant risk of attention problems and other disorders? Explain.
3. How could visual media affect unconsciously the mind the people.
B. Read the passage: "How Visual Media Affects People" and answer the remaining actvities from the worksheets. This will be your review for your Quiz #4.
IN OTHER WORDS, STUDY FOR QUIZ #4: media, nevertheless, household, dissatisfied, channel surf, furthermore, advertising, trash TV
C. Pending people with Oral Presentations this is your last chance.
3) Additional references
Media: How we perceive ourselves
The Butterfly Circus p. 1
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