- 9/28 Douglas Kellner, “Media Industries, Political Economy, and Media/Cultural Studies: an Articulation,” in Holt and Perren (eds.), Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method, Wiley/Blackwell, 2009, pp. 95-107.
- 9/30 Streeter, T. 1989. Beyond the Free Market: The Corporate Liberal Character of U.S. Commercial Broadcasting. Wide Angle 11 (1): 4-17.
- 10/3 Thomas Streeter, "A Revisionist History of Broadcasting, 1900-1934," from Selling the Air, University of Chicago Press, 1996, pp. 59-110.
- 10/5 Tim Wu, The Master Switch, pp. 3-44 [also: paper proposal due]
- 10/7 Wu, 45-98
- 10/10 Wu, 99-156
- 10/12 Wu, 156-195
- 10/14 Wu, 196-254
- 10/17 Wu, 255-320