9/8 Course Introduction
9/12 Introduction: Media & Culture
READ:
- Hodkinson, Media, Culture and Society, 2nd edition: 2-8.
- Croteau & Hoynes, Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences, fifth edition: 2-15. [HEREAFTER C&H]
9/15 Introduction: Media Convergence
READ: Pavlik & McIntosh, Converging Media: A New Introduction to Mass Communication, fifth edition: 3-12.
9/19 Introduction: Media Convergence
READ: Pavlik & McIntosh: 12-22.
9/22 Introduction: Media in Society
READ: C&H: 15-25.
9/26 Media Industries: Media Ownership
READ: C&H: 32-54.
9/29 Media Industries: Media for Profit
READ: C&H: 54-71.
10/3 Media Industries: Brand Integration
Screen: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (Spurlock, 2011, 90’)
10/6 Media Industries: Brand Integration cont.
10/10 EXAM
IN-CLASS Midterm Exam #1
10/13 Media & Democracy: Regulation of Ownership/Control
READ: C&H: 72-91.
SCREEN: RIP: A Remix Manifesto (Gaylor, 2009, 87’)
10/17 Media & Democracy: Regulation of Ownership/Control
CONTINUE: C&H: 72-91.
SCREEN: RIP: A Remix Manifesto (Gaylor, 2009, 87’)
10/20 Media & Democracy: Regulation of Content
READ: C&H: 91-109.
10/24 Media & Democracy: Media Reform
READ: Robert W. McChesney, “Waging the Media Battle,” American Prospect (July 2004): 24-28.
10/27 Media Technologies
READ: C&H: 294-308.
10/31 Media Technologies: How Media Technology Matters
READ: C&H: 308-319.
11/3 Media Technologies: New Media Technologies and Industries
READ: C&H: 319-330.
11/7 EXAM
IN-CLASS Midterm Exam #2
11/10 NO CLASS
11/14 Ideology
READ:
- C&H: 152-166.
- Hodkinson: 100-108
11/17 Interpreting Media Content/Representations
READ:
- C&H: 187-192
- Hodkinson: 58-68
11/21 Representations of Race & Ethnicity
READ:
- C&H: 192-205.
- Hodkinson: 222-232
11/22-11/24 NO CLASS — Thanksgiving Break
11/28 Representations of Gender & Sexuality
READ:
- C&H: 205-209 ; 217-222
- Hodkinson: 244-263
12/1 Interpreting Audiences ; Audience Interpretations
READ: C&H: 235-241 ; 260-268 ; 278-293
12/5 Globalization & Media Consumption
READ:
- C&H: 334-342.
- Iwabuchi, “How ‘Japanese’ is Pokémon?” in Tobin, Pikachu’s Global Adventure.
12/8-15 Final Exam Week
12/15 Final Exam at 8:00am (Science & Engineering Complex 102)
The final exam will be held in Rm 102 of the Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex (805 Columbus Ave)