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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:

  1. Speaker Evaluation - Stanley Farrar

  2. Speaker Evaluation - Tom Farmer

  3. 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)