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• In Media Res
  Re: "Where's the Human Voice?" It's on Public Radio

  Radio--the Most Visual Medium

  By

  Patrick Cox Rutgers, Department of Childhood Studies

  Thursday, October 6, 2011 — 7:37 pm

  Ira Glass used to say, “Radio is your most visual medium.” He was referring both to the power of the human voice, and the power of spoken language--words, description, but also tone, emotion. I’m absolutely with you on the importance of hearing the human ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Exploring 'Educational Entertainment': ‘On (the) Ontogeny of Orange Oscar’

   Good stuff!

  By

  Patrick Cox Rutgers, Department of Childhood Studies

  Thursday, October 6, 2011 — 1:00 pm

   Good stuff! It’s not surprising “educational entertainment” has some sort of roots traceable to the first third or so of the twentieth century. The “scientificization” and “psychologization” of childhood that was going on then spread its tentacles in so ...