It’s 6:10 p.m. on a Monday and you are:

• Watching the news
• Listening to a MP3 download
• Reading a (text) book
• Creating your own VPR
• Answering insta-poll questions
• Going through your closet with a brand researcher
• Debating the ethics of letting a source buy you a Fat Sandwich
• Figuring out the technological connection between 9/11 and JFK’s assassination
• Wondering what’s going to happen as the Telecommunications Act of 1996 catches up with 2009

Helen-Chantal Pike lectures on Intro to Media Systems Processes, and takes examples from her professional career as a journalist, photographer, award-winning author for Rutgers University Press, blogger, and sometimes public relations writer, to help students understand what messages are getting transmitted in this fast-changing era in which we’re living, and why. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Author's Guild, and Mystery Writers of America.