1. Pick a Media Critic. Give a two minute report about your picks on Tuesday June 30. Follow your pick and report twice a week on the Wiki page.

Subject areas:

• Media influence & effects
• History of Media Studies
• Social Responsibility of the Media / Democratic Theory
• Propaganda and the public sphere
• New Media effects
• Internationalization of media

Rich media, poor democracy

Walter Lippmann and Public Opinion

Do we still believe in the first amendment? -- Bill Moyers, from “Keynote Address,” National Conference on Media Reform (Video 2008)

The Hutchins Commission (Reading)

• A truthful, comprehensive, and intelligent account of the day’s events in a context which gives them meaning.
• A forum for the exchange of comment and criticism. The projection of a representative picture of the constituent groups in society
• The presentation and clarification of the goals and values of the society.
• * Full access to the day’s intelligence.

Foreign TV interview with media critic Danny Schechter. news dissector -- What are his baseline points of comparison? How far has the US media strayed from those ideals?

• Hypodermic needle model (1930s behaviorism);
  
  
• Two-step flow model (Lazarsfeld, 1948)
  
  
• Spiral of silence (Noelle-Neumann, 1984)
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• Agenda Setting
  
  
• Gate Keeping
  
  
• Uses and Gratifications

Electronic Storyteller - Gerbner (On reserve after viewing in class)

Media and the American mind from Morse to McLuhan Czitrom, Daniel J., 1951- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1982 - Handout - Also on reserve

Communications and Mass Media Databases

Search for a subject like "advertising and children" or "climate change and denial" or "video games and violence"

War of the Worlds -Orson Wells / Radio Broadcast

• Alexis De Tocqueville and his Liberty of the Press in America 1831
  
  
• Upton Sinclair - The Brass Check (CH 5)
  
  
• George Seldes
  
  
• H.L. Mencken
  
  
• John Heartfield
  
  
• A.J. Leibling
  

Free Speech: Jim Lehrer with Ben Bradley (On Reserve)

Take the Money and Run (On Reserve)

Media at the center of history
Media as extensions of humankind

IN CLASS QUIZ on material from July 1 and July 2.

Launch research projects

Media Influence / Media effects

• violence and children
• indecency and children
• women and body image
• negative campaigning and political attitudes
• censorship and war images
  

George Gerbner - Cultivation Theory

The Crisis of the cultural environment

Watch Michael Moore's - Bowling for Columbine

Virtual meetings

Report on journal article on Wiki page

Review for quiz 2 Bowling for Columbine and Cultivation Theory

Persuasion

. . Elaboration likelihood

Propaganda - Wiki article

Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent

Daniel Boorstin - The Image - A guide to pseudo events in America

What Orwell didn't know : propaganda and the new face of American politics ON RESERVE -- HM1231 .W43 2007

Holocaust denial (Follow up to Manufacturing Consent)

East Timor (Follow up to Manufacturing Consent)

The Wonderful horrible life of Leni Riefenstahl

Why we fight

George Orwell - Politics and the English Language

Persuasion & Attitude Formation, Peer Pressure

The image : a guide to pseudo-events in America
ON RESERVE -- E169.12 .B66 1987

Hijacking Catastrophe JZ1480 .H55 2004

Critical theory and the media

Twilight of the Book

New World Information Order debate / Media Imperialism

Distress Signals (on reserve)

Survival of journalism and public relations ( A compilation by Bob Stepno)

Media Convergence

Adoption and Diffusion Theory

Triumph of the Nerds web site

Nerds 2.0 web site