The Glaring Fact

Dear Readers,

If you go to this website and have a webpage, my only request is if you could link to mine

This website is currently under construction. These bullet form notes are only being put on here for now because it would take a little bit longer to write the meanings and its context in a more detailed form. I don’t have the time really to write these point-form notes in detail for you, but I have a lot of information about various subjects. I took several courses this year and wanted to compile all my lecture notes together on a website for readers of the World Wide Web can view and learn!

I’m a fourth year BA student at York University studying Mass Communication. My primary specialty in communication studies is the use of environmental rhetoric, particularly the fear appeal. Fear appeals are dynamic because of their immense strength in guaranteeing persuasion. In our day-to-day lives, we are bombarded by fear appeals. Those who study fear appeals are preoccupied by political rhetoric rather than environmental discourse. Today, I believe that fear appeals are being used by environmental activists and that they require assistance.

I enjoy exploring philosophies about cybernetics and post-modernity. I am preoccupied with conceptual theoretical practices in communications (media studies), and have an interest in the socio-historical aspects of the culture industry. My main interests involve the cognitive estrangement of today’s 21st century, the mechanisms of control and dominance, the politics of social difference and class, the cybernetics of the future, the crumbling of meta-narrative ideologies (religion, science) and the coming of individuality (humanism, social sciences).

Over my lifetime, I’ve written and published several articles for The Brock Press, The St. Catharines Standard and had my poetry collection published by the Canadian Authors Association. In my final year at York University, I will be doing freelance writing for The Excalibur.

As of now, this blog covers the following subjects:

1. Audience Studies
2. Canadian Television
3. Popular Narrative
4. Development of Science
5. Communications Theories
6. Communications Research Methods
7. Introduction to Communications Studies
   
8. Introduction to Film Studies
9. Introduction to Psychology
10. Theories of Popular Culture

I plan on adding these subjects as well when I am a little less busy!

1. Television Studies
2. Media Analysis

These are the courses I’ll be taking this year:

1. Electronic Information Network Marketplace
2. Theory and Practise of Effective Communication
3. Introduction to Politics, Policy and the Media
4. The Politics of Canadian Broadcasting
5. Studies in Genre, The Science Fiction Film
6. Broadcasting Policy: Current Issues and Case Studies

Visit me here at my other blogs:

1. http://sufimohamed.blogspot.com/index.html
2. http://www.green-atlas.com

Sincerely,

The Glaring Fact