Providing news and information while helping aspiring writers and journalists, http://thesop.org/categories/media-1.php http://thesop.org/categories/media-1.php 118 67 http://thesop.org/images/thesop_118x67.jpg Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:14:00 GMT Since television has become more literary and thoughtful, it has simultaneously become more deserving of literary criticism and thoughtful, scholarly analysis. http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/10/31/media-is-the-masses-improving-standards-and-practices.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/10/31/media-is-the-masses-improving-standards-and-practices.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:18:00 GMT Like a silent movie, background details of an environment can speak to us without saying a word. This is where the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" comes from. http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/10/24/media-is-the-masses-show-dont-tell.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/10/24/media-is-the-masses-show-dont-tell.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:17:00 GMT Obscurity is a greater threat to an artist than piracy. But what if obscurity occurs not due to a lack of awareness, but lacking commitment from the public? http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/10/17/media-is-the-masses-death-by-silence.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/10/17/media-is-the-masses-death-by-silence.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:07:00 GMT American culture is so overexposed with modern technology and media displays, that most people have become desensitized to the point of cynicism. http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/10/10/media-is-the-masses-something-to-sing-about.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/10/10/media-is-the-masses-something-to-sing-about.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:45:00 GMT It isnt mother nature that abhors a vacuum, it is human nature. We resist a void, refuse emptiness. Our nature drives us to impose form, structure, patterns and the symbolic. http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/10/03/media-is-the-masses-pagentry-of-pantomimes.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/10/03/media-is-the-masses-pagentry-of-pantomimes.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:25:00 GMT Perhaps, at their best, science fiction should delve into the philosophical and philosophy incorporate elements of science fiction http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/09/26/media-is-the-masses-signs-and-portents-abound.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/09/26/media-is-the-masses-signs-and-portents-abound.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:13:00 GMT Harrison Bergeron could be used as metaphor about our actual lives in the real world of prevalent electronic media which provides too many interruptions http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/09/19/media-is-the-masses-too-much-is-not-enough.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/09/19/media-is-the-masses-too-much-is-not-enough.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:38:00 GMT When we refer to Humanity, society or civilization, there is a near absolute assumption that whatever comments or descriptions are made applies to ALL humans http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/09/12/media-is-the-masses-global-village-idiot.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/09/12/media-is-the-masses-global-village-idiot.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:13:00 GMT Jesus was very skilled at using the media of his time to manifest himself as, and assume the identity of, The Messiah. http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/09/05/media-is-the-masses-messiah-conspiracy.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/09/05/media-is-the-masses-messiah-conspiracy.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:37:00 GMT Role playing games are essentially a medium for telling stories... a tool of imagination, not the devil. http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/08/29/media-is-the-masses-rolling-for-initiative.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/08/29/media-is-the-masses-rolling-for-initiative.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:05:00 GMT Both cyberpunk and steampunk serve as warnings about the future by presenting extremes of technology development and applications. http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/08/22/media-is-the-masses-better-faster-stronger.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/08/22/media-is-the-masses-better-faster-stronger.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:08:00 GMT Steampunk has its origin in science fiction and fantasy literature engaging Victorian era level technology and style, and the idea that the computer age coincided with the Industrial. http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/08/15/media-is-the-masses-like-clockwork.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/08/15/media-is-the-masses-like-clockwork.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:31:00 GMT Ironically, what Alternate Reality Games reveal is not a desire to avoid engagement with the real world, but a desire to pursue engagement, where it is deficient in their regular lives. http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/08/08/media-is-the-masses-this-is-not-a-game.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/08/08/media-is-the-masses-this-is-not-a-game.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:23:00 GMT The error and problem (with superhero movies) has only been compounded because of a common conception that "comic book" inherently means "cheesy"... http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/08/01/media-is-the-masses-style-and-substance.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/08/01/media-is-the-masses-style-and-substance.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:40:00 GMT The internet production movement spurred and reflected by the Writers Guild strike has indeed manifested an effort among Hollywood scribes to engage the marketing and distribution power of the internets... http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/07/25/media-is-the-masses-the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-it-will-be-streamed-online.php http://thesop.org/story/media/2008/07/25/media-is-the-masses-the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-it-will-be-streamed-online.php exastra@hotmail.com (Sean Stubblefield)