http://changingwildlife.uniblogs.org Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:36:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In class, we watched and discussed the Shock Doctrine Short Film by Naomi Klein and Alfonso Cuaron.  The short film, directed by Jonas Cuaron, is a visual response to Klein's book of the same name which discusses America's use of "disaster capitalism" to take advantage of disaster-shocked people.  Given the shocking ... http://changingwildlife.uniblogs.org/2008/04/22/shock-doctrine-response/ Since first defining my topic for this blog and the entirety of the ENGCMP 420 class, my thoughts have developed into something completely different than what I had originally intended.  With each writing project that is assigned, my thoughts become more detailed and refined.  Here’s an update on what I’ve ... http://changingwildlife.uniblogs.org/2008/04/10/project-development-update/ Throughout the film “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore uses powerful images to emphasize his position on global warming.  These images come in many forms, from photos to charts and graphs.  One of the most powerful images is the chart that depicts the CO2 concentration and temperature over the past 650,000 ... http://changingwildlife.uniblogs.org/2008/03/25/al-gore-and-visual-rhetoric/ Images are often used in rhetorical situations to emphasize an argument in a way that words cannot.  For my topic, images and other visual representations can be used to help the audience see the problem at hand, not just read about it.  Here are examples of two photograph images and ... http://changingwildlife.uniblogs.org/2008/03/24/a-look-at-visual-rhetoric/ Unlike some of my classmates, I was very excited to get a chance to finally watch An Inconvenient Truth.  Since the movie came out, I have heard many positive things about it from friends (to use a term pegged in class, I have a number of flaming, hippy liberal environmentalist ... http://changingwildlife.uniblogs.org/2008/03/18/an-inconveniently-long-response/ The selections I read from the book “How to Write Powerful Press Releases” by Judith Welsh introduced me to the format of press releases, which I have had no experience with before.  The press releases that will be written should contain basic who, what, where, when, why information, but should also ... http://changingwildlife.uniblogs.org/2008/02/28/introduction-to-press-releases/ Here is a simple description of my project written in the A but B format: A) Animals around the world are facing displacement and malnourishment due to the affects of global climate change but B) People are either unaware or unwilling to help alleviate the problem because they do not see ... http://changingwildlife.uniblogs.org/2008/02/20/a-but-b-statement/ The article, “Risk Communication, the West Nile Virus Epidemic, and Bioterrorism”, describes key features that are essential in producing an effective risk communication issue analysis.  These features are described in a highly technical manner, making the piece different than many of the other articles we have read thus far.  A ... http://changingwildlife.uniblogs.org/2008/02/15/responding-to-risk-communication-problems/             The article “Introduction: Examining the Blog-Media Relationship” by Mark Tremayne briefly discusses the interaction between new, online forms of communication and traditional media outlets.  It begins by telling the story of a sixteen-year-old whose Myspace page entries caught outside attention and ended up being broadcast on national news.  Even though ... http://changingwildlife.uniblogs.org/2008/01/30/hello-world/ Here is a brief outline of the research and sources that I have used so far in developing my project. I decided to work on the topic about global warming/climate change and its effect on animal habitats.  There is much more research to support this topic than to support my other ... http://changingwildlife.uniblogs.org/2008/01/23/researchsources-so-far/