By: Jason Kennedy on November 12, 2015
Introduction: A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet is a highly researched book that views how media has shaped and impacted the world in which we live. From Gutenberg’s press in the 1400s to the crazed social media era we live in today, Asa Briggs and Peter Burke explain how media has…
By: Colleen Batchelder on November 12, 2015
Briggs and Burke seek to bring us into the historical complexities of dialogue and challenge us to communicate effectively. “This book argues that, whatever the starting-point, it is necessary for people working in communication and cultural studies – a still growing number – to take history seriously, as well as for historians – whatever their…
By: Aaron Peterson on November 12, 2015
Media and technology are everywhere. As I sit here in Huntington Imaging Center waiting to get X-rays a man walks in and comments, “Everyone is on a device.” I stop writing, look around and see the 15 other patients in the room all staring at a screen; most phones, but two working on laptops. Me?…
By: Claire Appiah on November 11, 2015
The Power of the Media A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet by Asa Briggs and Peter Burke Introduction In this book Asa Briggs and Peter Burke provide an extensive and comprehensive exploration of the social history of the media. They examine the divergent forms communication has taken from oral history…
By: Aaron Cole on November 11, 2015
Introduction: A Social History of The Media by Asa Briggs and Peter Burke is a fairly comprehensive overview and insight in to the world of media from “Gutenberg to the Internet.” It walks through the historical artifacts, timelines, key persons, advancements, and setbacks from the mid fourteen hundred’s to the twenty-first century. Although, “It was…
By: Rose Anding on November 11, 2015
Introduction The topic of social and print media and their emergence and impact on the social relationships among people is still a surprise to many. Communication is the most important activity in human life; because at home, we communicate with our parents and siblings to get many things done. Interestingly, I am communicating to…
By: Garfield Harvey on November 6, 2015
In Theory When I teach piano lessons, I often tell my students that one of the most important things before ever playing a note is to know what you are supposed to play. We generally call this music theory because it allows us to play what we know and explain what we hear. The reality…
By: Dawnel Volzke on November 6, 2015
David Morgan, author of The Sacred Gaze[1], explores the religious perceptions of people and cultures though various art forms. The title of Morgan’s book captured my attention. Immediately, my thoughts went to a trip that I took a couple of years ago to Italy and the Vatican. Worship in the Italian culture is vastly different…
By: Kevin Norwood on November 5, 2015
When I first received book in the mail I devoured the introduction and found it incredibly refreshing that this intellectual duo really took time to establish what they were going to do in this volume. What an introduction to draw me into the subject matter from the most basic question of does leadership matter…
By: Travis Biglow on November 5, 2015
Seeing too Much November 5, 15 Reading this week is really not about seeing things in a different perspective to me its seeing things that are not there. I grew up going to a Catholic school full of images and relics and they did capture my attention. But culturally the Catholic Church did not have…
By: Phil Goldsberry on November 5, 2015
Introduction The “Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice” is like eating a box of Whitman’s Sampler assorted chocolates. As a child, my mother received at least one of these annually from my Dad. As an elementary aged, little boy who was beginning to read, the challenge and the discovery of the chocolate schematic inside the…
By: Brian Yost on November 5, 2015
“Why is it that the contemplation of images exerts the power to arrest the mind and deliver it from the anxieties that fragment the consciousness and bind it to such invented torments as frustration, rage, jealousy, or obsession?”1 Images provoke a reaction. But what reaction to they provoke? In his book The Sacred Gaze: Religious…
By: Pablo Morales on November 5, 2015
INTRODUCTION “What do you do with all your free time?” This was the first question that a hairstylist asked me when she found out I was a pastor. Initially, I did not understand what she meant, so I asked her to explain her question while she kept cutting my hair. She then clarified, “After you…
By: Jon Spellman on November 5, 2015
Before I begin the serious talk… I just had to share this. Anybody every heard of “Braco the Gazer?” If not, check this out and be ready to laugh, and cry a little when you realize just how desperate people are to believe ANYTHING! Braco doesn’t actually talk, he just stands and gazes at the…
By: Colleen Batchelder on November 5, 2015
Nohria and Khurana have sought to envelope us in the scholastic, practical and purposeful aspect of leadership and challenge us to live with meaning. This type of leadership requires us to delve into mindset of our audience and seek to communicate effectively and purposefully. “Leaders are the source of institutional values which, in turn, condition…
By: Marc Andresen on November 5, 2015
“Adlerizing” this book by reading dust cover, acknowledgments, table of contents, and headings led me to two specific chapters in which to focus, and here I felt like I’d hit the golden mother lode of material to support my D Min interests. The enormous project of assembling the compendium called “Handbook of Leadership Theory and…
By: Jason Kennedy on November 5, 2015
INTRODUCTION Upon reading Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, it makes me wonder if we need another leadership book. Taken from a collection of leadership essays, the editors, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khuruna, do such a splendid job at gathering the insights from some of the best leadership minds, that it does beg the question.…
By: Claire Appiah on November 5, 2015
Leadership: Authentic, Christian, and Transformational Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice: A Harvard Business School Centennial Colloquium by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana, Editors. Introduction According to the editors, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana, leadership research has been neglected for a long time by academia. This left the field wide open for popular authors or…
By: Phillip Struckmeyer on November 5, 2015
Sacred Visual Ethnography David Morgan is a Professor of Religious Studies with a secondary appointment in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke. He has published several books and dozens of essays on the history of religious visual culture, on art history and critical theory, and on religion and media.[1] With…
By: Aaron Peterson on November 5, 2015
I had no idea there are so many contours to leadership! As a pastor, I have mostly subscribed to Bill Hybels definition of a leader as someone who brings a group of people from Point A to Point B. Nohria and Khurana’s collection of papers in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice prove to me that pastoring a…
