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Week 6 : 4 November
content industries
Tonight's Schedule
- Overview of evening (via PPT - Kathy has no voice!)
- Technology
and convenience, profit and privacy (from wiredpen.com)
- Visit First Department of Communication Research Poster session;
COM 126; 6:00 - 7:30pm.
- Food break to coincide with visiting COM bldg. :)
- 7.30 - Two Guest Speakers
Guest Speaker, Stanley Farrar, managing editor, SeattleTimes.com
As managing editor of seattletimes.com, Stanley has primary
responsibility for site news content and direction and for coordination
with the Times newsroom and other online operations of The Seattle
Times Company.
He was part of the four-person team which developed the first online
publications for The Seattle Times Company, including seattletimes.com,
during his tenure as assistant managing editor in the newsroom.
Prior to this, he was assistant managing editor/graphics and
technology; he came to Seattle from the Austin American-Statesman,
where he was director of photo/graphics, director of photography, and
staff photographer. He also worked as picture editor for the Associated
Press Washington, D.C. bureau and as director of photography for Texas
Student Publications at the University of Texas at Austin. He has a
degree in philosophy.
Guest Speaker, Tom Farmer,
director of strategy, ZAAZ
Tom sets the business case and strategic basis for Web sites produced
by ZAAZ, one of the leading US Internet consultancies. He¹s worked
with Microsoft, Converse, Weyerhaeuser, Reliant Energy, National
Geographic, PBS, and leading U.S. financial service providers on Web
branding, architecture, and marketing experiences that key on clarity,
value, and customer advocacy.
Tom's eight years in digital design and corporate communications were
preceded by a 15-year television journalism career. He is a veteran of
CNN, where he served as a Washington editorial supervisor during the
Persian Gulf War and executive-produced Larry King Live, for which he
shared two CableACEs and a George Foster Peabody Award. Tom writes and
speaks on the sociopolitical and business implications of Internet
trends and phenomena. He graduated from Dartmouth College.
Notes
Assignments:
- Speaker
Evaluation - Stanley Farrar
- Speaker
Evaluation - Tom Farmer
- Readings for 18 November - no class next week! (please
summarize and ePost)
- "Introduction: framing the issues" and "Conclusion:
making meaning from mobiles," from Perpetual Contact: Mobile
Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance. James E. Katz and
Mark A. Aakhus, ed. (eReserve week seven)
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