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HCJ Year 2

History and Context of Journalism
Modernism
Modernism
(03/10/2011)
A short blog introducing Modernism, and explaining it's differences to Romanticism.

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Tabloid Nation
(08/10/2011)
An overview of the first few chapters in Chris Horrie's book - 'Tabloid Nation'.

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Sigmund Freud - Lecture Notes
(20/10/2011)
My notes from a lecture about Freud and his theories, including his idea that our mind is divided into 3 distinct proccesses - the id, the ego and the super ego.

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Sigmund Freud - Seminar Paper
(20/10/2011)
My seminar paper, which provides an organised look over many of Freud's beliefs and theories, including the multiple stages during infancy, and his obsession with sexuality.
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Nietzsche, Freud and Marx
(28/10/2011)
Notes that look at 'the three skeptics' and how thier theories and ideas are important to modernism.
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Frege and Language
(04/11/2011)
A look at Frege's view on language, looking at sense and reference, as well as Pierce's views on semiotics.

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Modern Economics
(11/11/2011)
This week, in our HCJ lecture we focused on economics. Money.
This includes a look at how countries such as Italy and Greece have entered financial crisis, aswell as how economics works, and how the government can try to keep stability and balance.
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Totalitarianism
(07/12/2011)
Totalitarianism can be seen as a form of dictatorship. It is a political system which produces complete control over both public and private sectors.

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Existentialism
(09/12/2011)
Phenomenology - a branch of philosophy, closest to psychology, and deals with the perpection of things.
Eg- the 'duck rabbit' - object of perception. You my can see both a duck and a rabbit in the picture(but you can only focus on one at a time).

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Tabloid Nation - Parts 2 and 3
(29/01/2012)
An overview of the next couple of parts in Chris Horrie's book - 'Tabloid Nation'.

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Existentialism - The Outsider by Albert Camus
(09/02/2012)
My seminar paper, focussing on the existentialist book 'The Outsider'.

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Mathematics in Logic and Language
(16/03/2012)
Natural numbers - words used to count things. To count is to create an abstract category or group.
On average, natural numbers go up to 7.
A number such as 73,962 is abstract and mysterious, impossible to visualise or recognise.
Any complex number can be analysed
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Tom Wolfe - The New Journalism
(16/03/2012)
From 60's and 7-'s - astyle of journalism that was considered unconventional.
Mainly found in magazines instead of newspapers/.
It can deal with form and technique.
1972 article by Dennis Chaser identifies it as emphasizing truth over facts.
Mixing journalism with literary techniques.
(most likely inspired by Dickens and Zola)
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Logical Positivism
(22/03/20120)
Wittgenstein - Language games - Everything you've ever thought takes place in a series of rules.
A situation bound by certain rules.