Thursday's lecture focused on the effect of media attention on the way in which the public remembers historical events. She focused specifically on how the civil rights movement is conceptualized in American society, and how this reflects media influence.

When I was thinking of what to blog about this week I remembered one of the activities the drug educator at my high school partakes in when he wasn't helping addicts or lecturing at schools. In the off season he infiltrates white supremacy groups for purposes that I now can't remember. Media in many forms, not just new media, in a lot of ways makes people less accountable for the way in which they express themselves and what they believe.

One of the most striking queries Boyd introduces is if everyone should have the right to access a public expression just because it is available. Is a public expression only public to the temporal, geographic, and social public in which it is brought forth? Or should it be readily available to all? I guess the defining question here is how do we delineate different publics, and do all have the same rights to the same information? I am inclined personally to reply no, or at least it should be harder than a facile search and select.