MediaTalk@admu Event Commentary

Comm people always love a good show. They love to put on a show. And they love to active-audience a worthy show. So to the MAG students who put together this most stimulating, entertaining, and thoroughly geekgasmic MediaTalk@admu seminar, and to all the guests who kept all the speakers at the edge of their seats (hoping they won't get grilled), THANK YOU. We broke new ground last night in engaging industry professionals, philosophy professors, media scholars, media students, and future media moguls with a lively, critical discussion about media and morality.

Events such as yesterday serve to remind us how urgent and important the study of the media really is. So whether one is a film buff or an aspiring pro photographer or a Silverstone fanboy, I hope that we left the evening with our mind buzzing not with answers, but with more and more questions, with questions that lead and loop to other questions. That's the only way we form insights after all.

Check out photos from the event in my Multiply HERE and Hub's Multiply HERE. Feel free to post comments/questions/suggestions in this space. Online is not divorced from offline after all. :)

Overheard last night:

1. Jon commenting on crowd control: "Di ko kinaya. Can we close the door already?"

2. Doc Leo's prescription for media representations: "We should let the Other explode in the media."
3. Random viewer: "Jason was fierce!"
4. "Uyyyy. Sino yung mga nasa reception?"
5. "How much for the shirts?" Limited edition Tami design, sorry!
6. "Can we get Sir Howie's number?" "Can we get Ms Ella's number?" Howie's fantastic speech available in his blog HERE.
7. Mark Escaler: "You've taken a big step in beginning this long overdue discourse in the school."