By jhubanks@gmail.com
November 14, 2011
As media effects scholarship has evolved over the decades, media has always been understood to perform an important and influential function in society. Questions of whom media influence, with what e
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By jhubanks@gmail.com
November 2, 2011
I’ll never forget it:
It was the summer of 2004. I was with a friend at Santa Monica State Beach, near L.A. We were both on vacation. As I started walking into the surf—my feet bare, sand and foamy w
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