Wednesday, January 20, 2010

James Patterson on Women in his Writing

Suzanne's Diary for NicholasIn my last post I shared some info. about why James Patterson sometimes writes from a woman's perspective, for example, in the Women's Murder Club series and in Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas.

Just found a little more info. on this.  In an undated interview, when asked about writing from a woman's perspective, Patterson says:
"I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk."
Notice the similarity between this answer and the answer he gave in the video found in my previous post.  Sounds like he has been asked this question many times and now has a "standard" answer.






Sunday, January 17, 2010

The Women's Murder Club and Crime Solving [Video]

1st to Die (The Women's Murder Club)In the WPBF news interview below, James Patterson describes where his idea for the Women's Murder Club novel series came from.  This is relevant to my current research because the current focus of the research is on how the four women in the Women's Murder Club TV series do (or do not) approach crime solving differently than men do.

Patterson says in the interview: "I love the way women solve problems.  They do it differently than men.  When men get together they all come in and say 'I have the answer,' 'No, I have the answer.'  Women... are more collaborative.  And I think that makes for a very unique approach to crime solving."

"I grew up in a house full of women, mother, grandmother, three sisters, two female cats.  And that buzz still [inaudible] in my head.  So, that is how I think I got part, part of why I got writing that particular series."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82QYH4r-_2s






Monday, January 4, 2010

What is Media Argumentation?

Media Argumentation: Dialect, Persuasion and RhetoricMedia argumentation is a term used by Douglas Watson to describe how people in the media attempt to persuade their audience. While Watson's book describes the recent work mainly in the field of philosophy, there is also relevant work in the field of communication.

This site and companion blog is an attempt to bring together the work that Watson describes with the relevant mass media and communication work.  The purpose of the bridging research literatures to help us better understand arguments presented in the media (from news commentary to shows on the paranormal).  Special attention is given to the errors made in reasoning (or fallacies).

This research blog is about media argumentation.  This research blog and companion web site serve as my set of notes and data for my research projects on mystery writing. Look at this research site and blog as a work-in-progress, as an online draft of my final papers. In this case, you get to look over my shoulder as I work through these research ideas. See my profile to send email or post comments to the posts below.

The overall purpose of this research web site and blog is to better understand the use of argument and fallacies in the media.   Over time, this research blog and site will cover a variety of research topics related to media argumentation.  See the video to the right for fallacy definitions and examples of fallacies in the media.

The current focus of this research site and blog is on the arguments that Fox News commentator, Bill O'Reilly, uses in the Talking Points Memo segment of his show. 






What is a blog? How do you subscribe to a blog?

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Saturday, January 2, 2010

What is Popular Entertainment Education?

Entertainment-education has been traditionally defined as "the process of purposely designing and implementing a media message both to entertain and educate" about health and social issues. Traditional E-E is designed by communication researchers and is based on communication theory. Example: Communication researchers writing, producing and evaluating a radio soap opera designed to encourage family planning in Tanzania.

Popular entertainment-education is defined here as the process used by TV and film script writers to not only entertain, but to educate and move an audience regarding particular health and social issues (e.g., breast cancer, AIDS/HIV). The central social issue explored in this research blog is prejudice/race relations. What is the process that script writers have used to educate audiences about prejudice? This research blog attempts to answer that particular question.






Friday, January 1, 2010

What is a blog? How do you subscribe to a blog?

I've searched the Internet and I think the following videos do a great job in explaining basic blogging concepts (blog, reader, rss feed, etc.). After watching these videos you'll be able to subscribe to this blog and perhaps even start your own blog. Let me know if you do.













What is a blog? How do you subscribe to a blog?

I've searched the Internet and I think the following videos do a great job in explaining basic blogging concepts (blog, reader, rss feed, etc.). After watching these videos you'll be able to subscribe to this blog and perhaps even start your own blog. Let me know if you do.













What is a blog? How do you subscribe to a blog?

I've searched the Internet and I think the following videos do a great job in explaining basic blogging concepts (blog, reader, rss feed, etc.). After watching these videos you'll be able to subscribe to this blog and perhaps even start your own blog. Let me know if you do.