Second Blog Entry
Today we had a lecture on chapter one which discussed the characteristics of mass communications. This changed the functions of media in general. We also held group discussion periods in our groups allowing us to get to know and interact with our peers in which we will later conduct our group projects with. I really enjoyed this class period for i had the opportunity to make connections with other people of the same major as I. I also gained a feeling of being more a part of this braod campus and it was reassuring.

Article 1: How podcasting works Stephanie Watson, How stuff works
This particular article initially gave me a definition of what podcasting truly was; “…a free service that allows internet users to pull audio files from a podcasting website listen to them on their computer or personal digital audio player.” This knowledge helped me to begin to formulate opinions on such advanced technology, and understand and acknowledge the masterminds behind such an inventive project, Adam Curry and Dave Winer. This article also laid out step by step instructions describing on how one would record their own voice and then download it.

• Introduction- definition and description of what podcasting is and does.
o brief history of the inventors.

First Blog Entry
Yesterday was our first day of class. We as a class went over the syllabus and class expectations dictated through our professor Candace Egan. In this class period we also individually took a test to categorize our unique personalities which were divided up into four groups to identify with. This study was conducted in order for our professor to assign us into small groups to conduct activities with in order to balance out personality traits and cause the least amount of drama and hard ship.