JOURN 201 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Trust Law, Percussion Cap, New Media

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Journalism and Mass Communication
• Course: JOURN 201
• Professor: Hernando Rojas

Document Summary

Participating is important in both lecture and discussion. Contact the ta first before contacting professor. Packback- a discussion board that allows you to ask questions. You get points for the quality of both the question and of the answer. Canvas- everything you need will be on canvas. Turnitin- will be used to turn in essays. Do the three readings for week one. Assignment 1 is due on the 11. We are not multi-taskers we are serial taskers. Serial tasking is shifting attention from one to the next and back and forth. It is a very inefficient way of getting things done. We are susceptible to optimistic bias: this is the idea that we are better than others and that bad things happen to others and not us, this allows us to misjudge risks. How tv affects the brain of young children. It pains an inaccurate picture of the world. The way stories are told today has changed.