User:Jonjalin

About Jonjalin
I am a PhD candidate in Media Studies and Politics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Interests
I examine the politics of the media; political culture, government and media wartime information dissemination practices; political ideology and propaganda; class, race, ethnicity, and gender portrayal in the media; relationship between media and power; alternative and community media; media sociology and news production; media and democracy; media ethics.

I love politics and I love the media. I love to read (even in my spare time) especially history and researching/analyzing cultural, news, and political phenomena. My goal is to discover as much as I can about how we come to think the way we do about race and class.

Interest in Wikipedia
From my perspective, along with YouTube, Wikipedia is one the greatest collaborative learning inventions in the last 100 years. I always enjoyed reading Wikipedia and, despite uninformed and paranoid judgment by some educators, have found the majority of articles to be well-researched and well-written. It is a modern tool that can be used effectively or abused as any tool can. Like many of those who participate on Wikipedia, I would like to see Wikipedia establish a well-earned reputation for educational leadership, accuracy, and for being forward thinking.

=My Contributions=

Articles written and edited for Wikipedia

 * 1) List of books and films about Barack Obama ‎ (edit)
 * 2) Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World ‎ (write)
 * 3) David Brion Davis (Minor edit)
 * 4) Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (added link)
 * 5) Abolitionism in the United States (added link)
 * 6) Randall Kennedy (major rewrite)
 * 7) Edward Clifford (added vocal narration)
 * 8) Siesta (added vocal narration)
 * 9) Cultural studies (started vocal narration)
 * 10) Abraham Lincoln (started vocal narration)
 * 11) Keith Hampton  (Minor edit)
 * 12) Faye Wattleton  (Minor edit)
 * 13) James Chaney  (Added missing murder info)
 * 14) William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne  (deleted redundant word.)
 * 15) PNC Bank Arts Center  (Minor edit)
 * 16) Oligopoly  (Added audio snippet of word.)
 * 17) Ben Carson  (Edited for grammar to previous edit. Sentence didn't make sense before.)
 * 18) Nell Irvin Painter‎  (Expansion and revision)
 * 19) David Bradley (novelist)  (Revision and addition.)
 * 20) Annette Gordon-Reed ‎  (Revision and addition.)
 * 21) Randall Kennedy  (Revision and addition.)
 * 22) Protests against the Iraq War  (Minor edit)
 * 23) Christiaan Eijkman  (Minor edit)
 * 24) Neil Postman  (Placed date and place of death.)
 * 25) Thomas Jefferson  (Minor edit)
 * 26) Michael Eric Dyson  (Minor edit)
 * 27) Gerald Early  (Major edit)
 * 28) Ben Carson  (Major edit)
 * 29) Lucille Clifton  (Minor edit)

List of all contributions: Special:Contributions/Aetheling.

Articles I hope to write someday

 * American Nations

Wikipedia interests
communication, biographies, history, race relations, politics, media, ideology, and propaganda.