IB Media in the library session with Mr Cole and Ms Elliot.
Students, please answer the following questions; post your answers on twitter using the library account (working in partners, sign off your tweets with your initials):
Find the best definition of "media" you can using Oxford Reference Online and the OED. Be sure to cite your source.
Find a thought-provoking quotation about media and society or the future of media, and tweet it (remember to tell us where you found the quotation).
Find two articles online about Marshall McLuhan's theories, and MM's impact on our way of looking at communications. Post the articles to twitter.
Compare media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement; try to find three contrasting viewpoints. Post your thoughts on twitter.
Think about how new social media is affecting politics on a national or global level. eg. Obama's campaign in 2008; the Arab Spring uprisings; street protests in Iran. Post your thoughts, articles, media links.
Post citations for two articles from JSTOR about Marshall McLuhan and his communications theories.
