1/10 Course Introduction

 

1/13 Introduction: Media & Convergence

READ: Pavlik & McIntosh, “Chapter 1: Mass Communication & its Digital Transformation,” in Converging Media: A New Introduction to Mass Communication, fifth edition: 3-12.

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1/17 Introduction: Media & Convergence

READ: Pavlik & McIntosh: 12-22.

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1/20 Introduction: Culture & Society

READ: Croteau & Hoynes, Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences, fifth edition: 2-15. [HEREAFTER C&H]

For students who purchased an epub version of the book, download a PDF of the Table of Contents for C&H to be sure you read the correct sections.

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1/24 Introduction: Culture & Society

READ: C&H: 15-25.

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1/27 Introduction: Circuit of Culture

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1/31 Media Industries: Media Ownership

READ: C&H: 32-54.

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2/3 Media Industries: Media for Profit

READ: C&H: 54-71.

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2/7 IN-CLASS MIDTERM EXAM #1

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2/10 Media Technologies

READ: C&H: 294-308.

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2/14 Media Technologies: How Media Technology Matters

READ: C&H: 308-319.

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2/17 Media Technologies: New Media Technologies and Industries

READ: C&H: 319-330.

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2/21 Media & Democracy: Regulation of Ownership/Control

READ: C&H: 72-91.

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2/24 Media & Democracy: Regulation of Content

READ: C&H: 91-109.

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2/28 Media & Democracy: Media Reform

READ: Robert W. McChesney, “Waging the Media Battle,” American Prospect (July 2004).

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3/3 IN-CLASS MIDTERM EXAM #2

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3/6-3/10 SPRING BREAK — NO CLASSES

 

3/14 Snow Day, CLASSES CANCELLED

 

3/17 Ideology

READ: C&H: 152-166.

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3/21 Representation

READ: C&H: 187-192.

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3/24 SCMS Conference, NO CLASS

 

 

3/28 Representations of Gender, Race, Class, and Sexual Orientation

READ: C&H: 192-221.

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3/31 Media Audiences

READ: C&H: 235-241; 260-274

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4/4 Media Audiences & the Pleasures of Media

READ: C&H: 278-293.

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4/7 Defining Globalization

READ: C&H: 334-342.

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4/11 Global Media Content

READ: C&H: 342-351.

 

4/14 Globalization & Media Consumption

READ: Iwabuchi, “How ‘Japanese’ is Pokémon?” in Tobin, Pikachu’s Global Adventure.

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4/18 Final Exam Review

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4/27 Final Examination 1:00-3:00pm

Final Exam will take place from 1:00-3:00pm in Mugar Life Science Building 201