Welcome Winter 2011 Students!

Fall grades are done, the holidays are over, and it's time to get back to class. Based on the first day, the Winter 2011 Mass Comm 101 class is going to be a good one. There was a lot of interesting and intelligent commentary from students, and I trust that it will continue.

The first Medianote of the semester will be presented today. According to this article in the Los Angeles Times, authors are beginning to question the need for publishers in the digital age. It bring up questions of disintermediation, information democracy, and whether Google, Amazon, Apple and a few others will soon dominate the book industry.