Week 3- Task 1

• By using Griffith University Library database, I found that Stephen Stockwell's first article in an academic journal was Stockwell, S 1981, 'Kuranda police shooting', Legal service bulletin, vol. 6, Feb 1981 issue, pp. 48-9, viewed 11 August 2011 via HeinOnline Law Journal Library. 

• Governor Slugwell appeared in the Flaming Carrot comic series, and I used the 'Underground and Independent Comics' database, under the trial databases list in the Griffith University library page. The citation for the first issue of the Flaming Carrot in which Governor Slugwell appears is Burden, B 1985, Flaming Carrot Comics, no. 7,  viewed 11 August 2011 via Underground and Independent Comics library.

• Today Tonight, on 21st June, 2011, presents a group of brain tumour suvivors who warn against excessive use of mobile phones. There is seen to be a strong connection between these people's extensive use of mobile phones and the unfortunate diagnosis of brian tumour. The narrator describes that the link between cancers and mobile phone use is becoming increasingly understood. One brian tumour survivor advises that mobile phone users should closely monitor how much time their spend on their mobile phones daily, and believes mobile phone companies should be held accountable.  Mobile phones cause cancer: Brain Tumour survivors are speaking out about the dangers of mobile phone use [online]. Today Tonight (SEVEN NETWORK); Time: 18:40; Broadcast Date: Tuesday, 21st June 2011; Duration: 5 min., 10 sec

• Leon, who is a replicant, seems suspicious of the fact that he is being tested whether or not is really a human, and when Holden asks about Leon about his mother, he pulls out his laser and shoots Holden. Scott, R 1982, Blade Runner, film, Warner Bros. Pictures, Burbank, California

• Paul Soukup says that Walter Ong (p.224) saw the main paradox in 20th Century communication is "that a society given so much to the use of diagrams and to the maneuvering of objects in space...should at the same time develop means of communication which specialize not in sight but in sound." That is, the paradox is that humans are so used to visual forms of communication, such as images and diagrams, that we have seemed to dismiss the importance of sound, a form of communication that is highly integral to human interaction and existence. Soukup (p.14) says "though printed texts will not disappear, the more human dimension of sound cannot be suppressed."  Soukup, P.A. 2004, 'Walter S. Ong, S.J. : A Retrospective', Communication Research Trends, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1-44