Greg Wise wrote:
... The first part of the assignment is for them to keep a diary of every encounter with the mass media throughout a week,... The second part was called the NO MEDIA WEEK....
You're a hard taskmaster, Greg. I've been doing a similar assignment in my Intro to Mass Media course for quite a few years now, connected with having the students read the first chapter of Bill McKibben's book, The Age of Missing Information. But I only require them to log their media use for three days, and then go just ONE DAY without any mass media at all -- including books, magazines, newspapers, music, TV, radio, 'net, etc. We have an 800 acre campus in a rural area, so it's not hard to send them out into the woods. Most of them are going through iPod withdrawal symptoms within a few hours. An essay is written and much discussion ensues. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain