Radio Play Script Due!; Midterm Review

Please turn in your homework: Radio Reinvents Itself & The Sounds of Commercial Radio. See previous class post for details. 

Radio play scripts are due today! Please complete them, proofread, then print out. Do not staple!

When you complete your radio play, please use the time in the lab to study for your mid-term exam:

Please study the following terms/concepts for our test on Friday, Jan. 19:

See the blog, your handouts, and review our projects from the beginning of the year until now.

Key terms/topics:

• communication & mass communication
• mass media
• convergence
• cross platform
• technological determinism & social determinism
• narrative
• print revolution
• high/low culture
• The history of technology (printing through the digital age)
• The critical process: description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation, engagement
• The transition between print/electronic & digital eras
• Linear model of communication
• Cultural model of communication
• Skyscraper model/map model of culture
• The origin and history of the internet
• Types of social media
• Problems/issues in social media
• Role of mobile devices in mass media
• History and development of the internet and early computing
• Open/closed internet
• Data mining
• Digital divide
• Net neutrality
• Internet memes
• Blogging
• Arcade/console/personal computer games
• MMORPGs
• Genres of digital gaming
• Influence of digital gaming on media culture
• Misogyny, violence, addiction in the gaming industry
• Interactive fiction & text based games
• How to write violent scenes in games/stories/print
• Different types of imagery
• The history of print (books, from papyrus to paperbacks)
• The printing press & Gutenberg
• The history and development of publishing houses
• The relationship between book publishing & the film industry
• e-books and Kindle (digitized books); changes and issues in the print industry
• Publishing genres & paperback genres
• Editing marks  
• The role of editors & literary magazine jobs
• Amazon's role in the publishing industry
• Back cover copy/copyright page
• How to write a query letter
• Maus & growth and popularity of graphic novels
• The history of comics
• Banned books
• Blockbusters & Best Selling Novels
• Development of sound recording
• How rock & roll influenced mass media & cultural boundaries
• How the British invasion impacted mass media & culture
• How hip-hop & punk rock influenced/impacted mass media & culture
• The business of sound recording
• The early technology and development of radio
• Telegraph
• Guglielmo Marconi & Lee De Forest
• AM/FM
• The Radio Act of 1912 & 1927
• FRC (Federal Radio Commission)
• Communications Act of 1934
• Orson Welles contribution to radio & film
• Radio plays (& script format)
• The War of the Worlds radio broadcast & script
• Douglas Adams & the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Edwin Armstrong
• RCA
• Top 40 format
• Nonprofit and NPR radio
• Writing film critiques
• Sound in film: soundtrack, score, sound effects, diegetic/nondiegetic sound
• Film terms: shot, scene, storyboard, montage, fade, dissolve, narrative, tropes, motifs
• Basic camera shots and angles
• Harry Potter's success as a book/film series
• Hidden Figures (film)
• Geeks (the term and the book)

HOMEWORK: Study for your midterm. Any missing work must be completed and turned in late by Friday, Jan. 19. Assignments will not count if handed in after this date.