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Hey everyone.

My name is Paul Kim. I am currently a psychology major but am looking to switch over to communications, reason being I just realized it wasn't for me as I studied it more. My first passion would have to be film. More specifically, I'd love to get into screenwriting and hopefully try that out in the future. The other thing that takes up a lot of my time is tennis. I play in USTA tournaments and leagues.

Mass communication is important to me because it allows me to keep in touch with not only friends and family who I don't get to be near all the time, but keeps me updated and connected to the outside world. Whether it be news/current events or updates on an upcoming film or anything else that sparks my interest, it is a big part of my everyday life.

I'd like to learn more about different aspects of communication that I probably am not aware of on a conscious level. Having read just the first chapter from the textbook, I realized that my own definition of communication is rather limited. I'd like to apply what I learn from this class in future for work, relationships, and just everyday life.

Scene from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Chester French performing She Loves Everybody

Hello everyone,

I'm Brian. I am a Junior Comm major. I recently moved back to the area from NYC, where I lived for four years. i come from a theater background meaning I went to school for acting, at The North Carolina School Of The Arts. I have worked in theater professionally off and on in Philadelphia and New York. Most recently I was in two films in a Ny film festival called The Flywheel film fest. http://www.theworldsfirstloopablefilm.com/ In Ny I had a day job as a teaching asst/ tutor for writing and english at The Borough Of Manhattan Community College which I really loved. Currently I teach acting, beginner and intermediate, theater and on camera to kids mostly 9-13 yrs old, but I am also directing a one woman show about Amelia Earhart,a great challenge.Mass media does completely affect my everyday life, but I don't like being a slave to it, sometimes I even go on a media fast. I have a real love/hate relationship with mass media to the point where sometimes I just irrationally deactivate my facebook or myspace, but at the same time I just started up on Twitter, and by the way I don't get it, twitter that is. What I bring to Mass Media knowledge is a love as much as a hate which has made me become more objective,and that is something I want to use more, so it is something I want to explore in the class, because I can tend toward being interpretive, so I'd like to learn to be objective too. I also have performance background as well as writing, directing and teaching. I also play guitar and have been in short lived disastrous band formations ever since high school playing Velvet Underground covers. My latest was an R.E.M. cover band for which I was told to affect "stipisms". I'm working on a screenplay of the experience because it was so painful. In reflection one of my happiest times was living in Woodstock Ny doing theater, before email, before text, before facebook, and I seem to think I was happier, so I guess I'm secretly a hippy at heart too. One thing about media and entertainment that excites me the most is collaboration and process, working together in collaboration. I look forward to finding out what my media diet is, and soaking up what media learning I can. p.s. The picture is of CuChulainn,a kick ass Mythical Irish hero. The videos are of the band Fleet Foxes, and the other is a short film from the festival I was in.

About ME

Mass communation is a important part of my life, because it has to do with relating to people, and understanding where there coming for no matter what it is about. I think it will help me out considering I was born with a different way of learning than most people. When it comes to relationships it helps you understand and be excepting of people. I always seem to get judged by people before people get to know me just because I'm a little bit different. I can't help having a learning disabilty I was born with it. My belief is if you can't except someone for who they are that's you problem and you are shallow and stupid, grow up. If a man cannot keep pace with his companions, maybe it's because he hears the beat of a different drummer, let him step to the music that he hears however measured, or far away- thoreau I try to work hard at everything I do, because it takes me twice as long to get things as most people, but it doesn't mean I can't learn. My ambition is to follow in my younger sisters footsteps, and do something in the media. My sister work for NBC as a news anchor, so thats kinda the thing I'm interested in, in front or behind the camera. I was also a theater major at Temple Main so I also want to get in to the acting biz if I can. So hollar at me if you want, ttyl Eli

Hey everyone!

Hey everyone, I'm Lauren.

I'm a senior year communications major, graduating in May. I originally transferred here last winter from University of Hartford (The Hartt School), where I majored in musical theatre and performing arts management. Needless to say, I love showtunes, and have a secret obsession with country music and whiney punk. I live on the Ambler campus, work two jobs, and still perform whenever I am able. Also, I am happily addicted to coffee.

Mass communication is an important factor in my life because I, like everyone else, am influenced by it without even realizing it, almost every minute of every day. I believe that mass communication is a good thing, although I think that the mediums can be overused and the information provided can be overly digested and overly-consumed. I believe that one of the problems with mass communication would be that the information provided is rarely analyzed firsthand by the consumer.

Mass communication helps me to keep in touch with friends and family through social networking sites, conveniently apply for jobs and get quicker responses through email, keep in touch with the news through internet information sites and newspapers, and receive mass text messages from friends, along with the many other ways I use it each day.

From this class I hope to gain a sense of how to be a smarter consumer of mass communication which will benefit my everyday life.

I will offer this group public speaking and organizational skills, along with a fresh perspective on mass communicating through music and the arts.

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My name is George Torre and I am a Broadcast Telecommunications and Mass Media major here at Temple University. Although I am extremely interested in audio production I tend to be fairly pessimistic about what the future may hold in terms of career options in the recording field. I have been playing the drums for most of my life and have enjoyed playing in several different musical groups. Some of my more recent musical endeavours have been a rock group called The Great American Soundtrack and a Metal-core (I guess) band called One Dead Three Wounded. In recent years i've had the opportunity to travel the US several times performing music, most recently with One Dead Three Wounded. Essentially, mass communication plays a large role in my life because music is important to me. Although music, itself, is a medium for communication (on both large and small scales), I find that I have met many of my closest friends from the culture surrounding the music. I also enjoy creating media messages (music) and recording in my project studio. It's safe to say that mass communication has a direct influence on my everyday life.



I hope to learn as much as possible in Mass Communication Theory. It seems as though this class has much to offer in terms of really analyzing the way people receive and create messages. Hopefully I can walk away from this course with a broader understanding of the communication process and find parallels, within my own life, to apply them to.



Although I am extremely shy I hope to contribute to the group with some of my own perspectives on communication. Hopefully my experience with music will be relevant to our discussions.