Readings and Assignment Schedule: Mass Media in Modern Society

Week 2 (1/23, 1/25, 1/27)

Gitlin 1- 40. 

Thomas König, "Frame Analysis: A Primer," http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/resources/links/frames_primer.html 

Friday author overview: Todd Gitlin (Streeter)

Week 3 (1/30, 2/1, 2/3)

Gitlin, 40-125; view video, "War at Home"

Friday author overview: W. Lance Bennett, Noam Chomsky (on politics and media)

Week 4 (2/6, 2/8, 2/10)

Gitlin, 127-204

Friday author overview: Theodore Glasser, John Hartley

Week 5 (2/13, 2/15, 2/17)

Gitlin, 205-248

Friday author overview: Barbie Zelizer, John Fiske

****Research paper proposals due 2/17 ****

Week 6 (2/22, 2/24)

Gitlin, 249 - 292

Friday author overview: Stuart Hall

Part II, The Political Economy of Media Institutions: the Case of Network Television

Week 7 (2/27, 3/1, 3/3) 

Robert W. McChesney, "Policing the Thinkable," http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=8&debateId=24&articleId=56

Benjamin Compaine, "The myths of encroaching global media ownership," http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=8&debateId=24&articleId=87#

Friday author overview: Robert McChesney, Benjamin Compaine

Week 8 (3/6, 3/8, 3/10)

Meehan, 1-52

Friday author overview: Douglas Kellner, George Gerbner

Week 9 (3/13, 3/15, 3/17)

Meehan, 53-116

Friday author overview: Joanne Cantor, Shanto Iyengar

Week 10 (3/27, 3/29, 3/31)

Meehan, 117-124

***** Annotated Bibliographies due 3/31 *****

Part III: Charting the Media Future

• Carey & Quirk: James W. Carey, "The History of the Future," in Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989, pp. 113-141 and pp. 173-200.
• "In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline, the Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned; what happened to the news?" -- a future history of the media by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson (actually created in 2004) http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
• Friday author overview: Neil Postman, James Carey

Week 11 (4/3, 4/5, 4/7): Politics and Blogs

• Andrew Sullivan, "A Blogger Manifesto: Why online weblogs are one future for journalism," http://www.andrewsullivan.com/print.php?artnum=20020224
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
• Gary Wolf, "How the Internet Invented Howard Dean," Wired Magazine, Issue 12.1, Jan. 2004. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/dean.html

Friday author overview: Lawrence Lessig,  Sherry Turkle

***** Rough Drafts due 4/10 *****

Week 12 (4/10, 4/12, 4/14): the Emerging New Terrain

• Gerrit Flindt, Magnus Mueller, Sven Schmidt: An online presentation of Brian Winston's "How are Media Born?" http://www.finales-ende.info/spass/brunner/
• DAN MITCHELL, "A Blog Writes the Obituary of TV,"  New York Times, March 11, 2006, Business Section, p. 5. 
• RICHARD SIKLOS, "Media Frenzy: How Much Profit Is Lurking in That Cellphone?" New York Times, March 5, 2006
• Andrew Wallenstein, "Showbiz unsure if YouTube a friend or foe," Reuters, Tuesday, March 21, 2006
• "TV's New Economics," (a summary of a forum at MIT) http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/tv_economics.htm#summary

Friday author overview: Lynn Spigel, Andrew Feenberg

Week 13 (4/17, 4/19, 4/21)

• Michael Curtin and Thomas Streeter, "Media," in Culture Works: The Political Economy of Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 2001, pp. 225-249 
• Todd Gitlin, "Media Unlimited," a speech to the Commonwealth Club,  March 18, 2002 http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/02/02-03gitlin-speech.html

Week 14 (4/24, 4/26, 4/28)

• Term paper presentations

Week 15 (5/1, 5/3)

• Term paper presentations