HW 30 You're the Citizen Journalist

Tuesday Bob Steele “ The Media Mosh Pit: Journalists, Bloggers, and Citizens in the Dialogue vs. Diatribe Dance”
This citizenship symposium was about election and the election in Keene State. Bob Steele had talked about the different voting methods which were Plurality, Borda Count, P-W-E, and Pairwise comparisons. He had also talked about the fairness conditions, majority, Condorcet, and II A. Some of the important points he had stated about these voting and fairness methods where that different methods produce different results and methods exhibits’ characteristics associated with fairness and unfairness.
The room was very warm, there weren’t to many people they were scattered everywhere, a lot of people had gotten up in the middle and left and he had used many examples in his slideshow to explain his reasoning’s.
Thursday “Animation as Political and Social Constructions” Jiwon Ahn, Sander Lee, Mark Timney
This citizenship symposium was about politics and citizens. One speaker used a cartoon with Donald duck dressed up being controlled by the Nazis and Germans. He stated that he thought it was odd that they used Donald duck who is known as an angry character, and made him calm and obedient in the cartoon. He says Hale Hitler 33 and a half times in a eight minute cartoon. Another speaker had explained how south park shows how a model citizen should be. In there episodes they have vulgarity, attack religions, and use sexual content. Also 55 percent of the episodes have moral lessons and many of the lessons are from a huge variety. From a lesson about race to a lesson about helping others.
Today there was a lot more people than Tuesday, and there was a table this time with a white table clothe over it. Also there was three speakers today not just one. I had class so I was late and only got to see two of them