by David Bennett | Feb 24, 2014 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Fieldschool, CHI Project Info
Television has been turning everyday people into celebrities since it became a fixture in American households. Although reality television did not begin until 1973 with An American Family, television news reporters were putting everyday people in the spotlight long...
by David Bennett | Jan 30, 2014 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info
There can be no question that television news reporting has played a key role in the cultural history of modern America. Since the late 1950s, any written historical narrative must compete in the minds of those who lived through the event with memories inspired by...
by David Bennett | Nov 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
There is a distinct power in the act of observation. Both in the world of quantum mechanics, where the life of a cat hangs in the balance, and in the messy world of human behavior. In my last post, I discussed how the existence of video footage of an event should...
by David Bennett | Oct 22, 2013 | CHI Articles & Discussions
Asked to imagine the trial and death of Socrates, we might conjure up an image of Jacque-Louis David’s oil painting Death of Socrates, or recall Plato’s written accounts. We might even imagine modern day reinterpretations of the event. However, none of these...
by David Bennett | Sep 23, 2013 | CHI Fellowship Program
On September 4, 1957, Elizabeth Eckford approached Little Rock Arkansas’ Central High School in an attempt to enact desegregation. A wall of national guardsmen turned her away. None of this initial exchange was able to be recorded by the television camera operators,...
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