I just finished working with an engaged group of young people at the Cab Calloway Summer School for the Arts. The progra was designed to introduce these scholars to old media, which was largley new to them. “This Just In: When Radio & Television Came of Age” was fun to do as they listened to and analyzed old radio and Televison broadcasts and talked about what media means for them today. It’s the era of Ipods, texting, podcasts, Youtube, streaming, and much more for these 
21st Century young people. They grasped how central this old media was as a powerful communication medium that shaped so much of our society. For the earlier generation, mass media was broadcast television, newspapers, and radios but as these teenagers moved through their studies mass media is going to be Google. Cab Calloway is a great school with lots of scholars learning by doing as they look at things holistically. This program was sponsored by the Delaware Humanities Forum.
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