tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36128432024-03-12T22:31:36.237-07:00Decoder ManA site devoted to random thoughts on media, popular culture, everyday life and similar concerns.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-38740786226335554252015-04-16T18:32:00.000-07:002015-04-16T18:32:34.468-07:00Ready to Roll
In ten days we'll be off to Istanbul and then after two nights there, recovering from the flight, we'll fly to Tehran at 11:30 PM, arriving at 3:50 AM. Making arrangements with the professor in Iran who is taking care of various matters has taken around eighty emails so far...I finally met my match when it comes to sending emails. But we needed all those emails to take care of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-16307719112738931382015-04-11T10:08:00.003-07:002015-04-11T10:10:28.325-07:00Visit to Iran
TO IRAN CAME I, BURNING, BURNING....
Our trip to Iran is just a couple of weeks away. And suddenly, something that seemed in the
distant future, is upon us. I have spent weeks creating and revising nine or ten PowerPoint presentations on topics I'll be lecturing on/conducting workshops/learning games on...and now am done with my preparations. Until tomorrow, that is...though Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-81332957698574605632015-04-08T07:02:00.000-07:002015-04-08T07:02:01.269-07:00
CAN YOU TELL A BOOK BY ITS COVER?
I'm now working on the fourth edition of my book Media and Communication Research Methods: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. The first edition was published in 2000 so I've been working on the book for fifteen years. The third edition was published in 2014 so the fourth edition will be appearing two years after the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-65187461596535367972015-04-07T06:48:00.000-07:002015-04-07T06:48:04.079-07:00
THE LITERARY LIFE
That is the title of my blog on Facebook...I send stuff to it from my
smartphone but find this blog easier to use and it has some virtues
the Facebook blog doesn't have.
It seems that the Iranians have translated four of my books into Farsi:
Media Analysis Techniques
Narratives
Cultural Criticism and
Durkheim is Dead.
I find it interesting that any of my books Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-66090405140612145752015-04-02T06:54:00.001-07:002015-04-02T06:54:41.753-07:00
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH METHODS
I've just reviewed my chapter on content analysis for the fourth edition of this book.
How I was able to write this book still mystifies me. A number of years ago I attended
a conference (maybe it was the International Communication Association) in Boston
and was having lunch with the communications editor for Sage publications when
she Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-80935206901637199592015-04-01T05:17:00.002-07:002015-04-01T05:17:56.928-07:00
APRIL FOOL'S DAY
The first of April is devoted to nonsense, comedy, jokes and laughter...
when we recognize the role that fools play (and foolishness plays) in
our lives and society. We play tricks on one another, find ways to
inject an element on frivolity in our daily routines and relationships,
and often make fools of ourselves.
I'm waiting for American consumer culture to find ways Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-69034398858254132772015-03-31T08:57:00.001-07:002015-03-31T08:57:24.364-07:00Some drawings
SOME IMAGES
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-67886301734254986422015-03-31T08:50:00.000-07:002015-03-31T08:50:54.174-07:00
DECODER MAN AS REWRITE-MAN
I am now finishing up the revision of my book Media and Communication Research Methods.
This will be the fourth edition of the book, which means I've revised, added to, etc. four times. To do a new edition, you need around 15% to 20% of new material, so over the course of my revisions, I've written close to the equivalent of a new book.
I've done five editions Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-34428783255841486412015-03-30T19:18:00.000-07:002015-03-30T19:18:37.828-07:00
WHAT AM I DOING, WHERE AM I GOING????
I'm still not sure how to use this site, other than scribbling some ideas and attaching
images. But maybe that's what
blogging is all about?
I'm too lazy to bother attaching URLs or whatever to my blogs so they show up
on Facebook. I'll just mention this blog every once in a while. I'm not sure how
anyone finds this blog, even if I've Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-70758514321952059422015-03-30T15:14:00.001-07:002015-03-30T15:14:52.756-07:00
KEEPING JOURNALS
I've been keeping journals since 1955 and have now written 94 journals and am almost
finished with journal number 95: Messages. I give all my journals names. I called this
journal Messages because I was working on a book about communication with Messages:
An Introduction to Communication as the title.
I'm going to Iran in a month to give nine lectures and hope to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-21362866293280156802015-03-30T09:06:00.000-07:002015-03-30T09:06:20.712-07:00
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arthur-Asa-Berger-and-the-Literary-Life/186972494663099?fref=tshttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Arthur-Asa-Berger-and-the-Literary-Life/186972494663099?fref=ts
Testing. Will this item go to my Facebook pagea?
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DECODER MAN ARISES FROM A DEEP SLEEP
I didn't post anything on the blog because I had problems using it
and so I moved to Facebook where I have a blog "Arthur Asa Berger
and the Literary Life." But now I'm learning how to use Blogger
and will spend some time with it....linking it to my Facebook
blog if I can figure out how to do this.
I also want to find out how to attach articles to theAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-27550360497745145382015-03-29T20:45:00.001-07:002015-03-29T20:45:56.971-07:00
Did a post and lost it. Let me try again. Mary 29, 2015.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-49917007673262530722015-03-29T20:45:00.000-07:002015-03-29T20:45:43.732-07:00Drawing of myself as "Decoder Man"
Here is a drawing I made of myself as "Decoder Man." The term suggests that one of the things I like to do is "decode" aspects of media, pop culture and everyday life that interest me. For example, I wrote a book, Bloom's Morning, that "decodes" the hidden significance of items like electric toothbrushes, gel toothpaste, pajamas, etc.
I am just learning how to use the new BloggerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-71298705286710986722015-03-29T20:44:00.001-07:002015-03-29T20:44:56.961-07:00
RETURN TO DECODER MAN AFTER LONG ABSENCE
I don't think I wrote anything on this blog since 2013...maybe even before that. I want to
learn how to transfer articles to the blog next....but not long articles that will take up twenty
pages or so....maybe via an icon that can be used to download the article.
So I'm experimenting now.
Arthur Asa Berger &Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-13521735610029711762013-05-05T18:33:00.001-07:002013-05-05T18:33:59.103-07:00Testing and Learning on New Blogger SiteI've learned how to download some images. Now I'm going to try and download others, from my desktop...to see whether that is possible.
Here are some books I've published. The research methods book just came out last week. That'sexciting.
Now I've learned how to upload images on my desktop, so now I have access to images in two places.The question I have now is whether I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-59973362126733605052013-05-05T18:15:00.003-07:002013-05-05T18:15:59.328-07:00Return from Lower Slobbovia
I have been blogging on Facebook, where I have a blog titled "Arthur Asa Berger and the Literary Life." I forgot about this blog until I had a conversation with my daughter and then remembered I had done some blogging earlier. I stopped because I didn't know how to upload images or previously written material. Now I am going to see if I can upload images and maybe I'll start Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-55907748436269682632009-07-19T19:46:00.000-07:002009-07-19T19:49:54.636-07:00This Blog has become a yearly event, so it seems. Once a year I add something to this blog site...in part because I haven't figured out how to upload new stuff and in part because there are automatic blogs such as Facebook and Twitter. So the question arises...what will happen to standard blogs. I tend to think they will last, because you can do so much more on this kind of a blog than on the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-17891597337118501932008-10-08T17:22:00.000-07:002008-10-08T18:04:30.370-07:00The Writer's LifeI just published a book on writing...I had to rewrite it five times before my editor accepted it.The moral is: writing always involves rewriting.Now I've sent off a book on ways of analyzing objects and artifacts--material cultureand am waiting to see how many times I have to rewrite it.One problem I face...which all writers face...is that sometimes you lose editors...whomove toAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-54618696229721296162007-10-23T19:02:00.000-07:002007-10-23T19:04:48.223-07:00Check List for Analyzing Print Advertisements “The tendency to interpret everything in an artistic text as meaningful is so great that we rightfully consider nothing accidental in a work of art” (1977:17). Yuri Lotman in The Structure of the Artistic Text. 1. How would you describe the design of the advertisement? Do we find axial balance or an Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-69869089458799335842007-03-11T16:46:00.000-07:002007-03-11T16:47:01.430-07:00Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-15868319892137187912007-03-11T16:36:00.000-07:002007-03-11T16:42:48.236-07:00Breaking NewsI just started a new journal, number 84, which I've ironically titled "Breaking News," because nothing newsworthy happens in my life...Only minor events from time to time...the only news is that my friends are beginning to suffer from various ailments of a serious nature...this one got cancer, that one was in a car accident, a third is suffering from early stages of Alzheimers, and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-32330737513218477722007-03-07T18:21:00.000-08:002007-03-07T18:24:01.048-08:00A CURIOUS THING It's a curious thing...I only write in my blog every couple of years, or so it seems...and yet I've kept a journal and written in it just about every day for the last fifty years. I had hoped to be able to send selections from one of my novels to the blog and have my blog run as something with new chapters every week, or something like that. But I don't know how to upload Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-19633142238066141632007-02-18T18:16:00.001-08:002007-02-18T18:17:07.906-08:00Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612843.post-77134302077514865342007-02-18T18:16:00.000-08:002007-02-18T18:16:37.476-08:00Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17150710690911994775noreply@blogger.com