beginning
Converging
Media Ch 1
Introduction
Notes:
Study Guide from textbook
To set the pace for the class, we'll watch this video of Clay Shirky on how mass media is changing.
What is mass communication?How do we use it in everyday life?
What are the basic components and functions of the mass communication process? ( Surveillance, correlation, cultural transmission, and entertainment)
How is digital media changing traditional media?
What are trends in media and society? (unification, moral consensus, fragmentation, demasification)
Homework: Why networks are no longer "audiences"
DISCUSSION 1 - Tribe videos
QUIZ 1- Introduction to media
Seth Godin on "tribes" in media
David Logan on "tribes" and networks
Ch 2 Ethics & Media Literacy
DISCUSSION 2. Media ethics
QUIZ 2- Media ethics and literacy
Gregory Stock on Ethics and the human condition
ABSENCE OF MALICE
A reporter (played by Sally Fields) gets information from the District Attorney about organized crime activity by a liquor importer (played by Paul Newman). She prints the information, then finds out from Newman that he has an alibi -- He was helping a Catholic school teacher get an abortion. The reporter prints this, and the woman kills herself. Newman is furious and sets up the DA, giving the reporter incriminating information. Wilford Brimley tries to figure out what has happened.
There is a quiz question on this. Be sure to watch part one and part two.
(part one)
3. Online discussion - print media
QUIZ 3- Print media
Yochai Benkler on fundamental changes in media ownership and production.
Why a free press is the best investment with Sasa Vicinic
The Fate of the Newspaper - Jack Utko
Chapter 4 Photography and Cinema
DISCUSSION 4 Photography
QUIZ 4- Photography and cinema
David Griffin on how photography connects us
James Nachtwey's searing photos of war
Alternative link to Nachtwey's photos
Ch 5 Music, Radio, TV
DISCUSSION 5- Music, Copyright and TV
QUIZ 5 - Music Radio and TV
DISCUSSION 6 - Television - Nixon Kennedy debates
Tod Machover and Dan Ellsey on making "active" music at the MIT media lab
Benjamin Zander on music and passion
Dont mess with the RI double A
Music Mashup wikipedia
Lawrence Lessig on how laws choke creativity
Peter Hershbert on TV and the Web
War of the Worlds -Orson Wells
This is Trafalgar Square -- and modern juxtaposition Murrow on London Air Raids
Edward R. Murrow reports on Buchanwald
Nixon Kennedy Debates (introductory documentary)
News Hounds (Fox critics)
Ch 6 - 9
Digital Media
QUIZ 6 - Digital media
DISCUSSION 7
Social media
Charles Ledbetter on creative collaboration in the media and how it changes media economics.
Clay Shirkey on Institutions versus Collaboration
Howard Rheingold on collaboration as a new paradigm, and how new communication technologies change the picture.
Watch these TED video about collaboration.
Then go to WebCT, class discussions page, and write about your preceptions of this talk and about advertising in general.
How can people collaborate to change the world?
How could students better collaborate at universities?
Due May 20
Triumph of the Nerds web site
Nerds 2.0 web site
Ch 10 Journalism
8. Online Discussion - Future of Journalism
QUIZ 8 - News and the New media
Alisa Miller on why it is that "the more you watch, the less you know."
Evgeny Morozov punctures "I Pod Liberalism"
Future of Journalism -- With Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Student Affairs at Columbia Journalism School
* Protecting sources - What's that all about?
Ch 12 Advertising
and Public relations
9. Online discussion - PT Barnum's lost museum
QUIZ 9 - Advertising and public relations
Hey - John Anderson. Is this the future of advertising?
Winston cigarette Ad -- And another Lucky Strike (1948) -- Doctors smoke Camels
http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/intro.html
Internet advertising highest ever in 2010
Advertising on Internet outspends TV in Britain
Newspaper advertising down 29% in 2009
Television bureau of advertising -- good stats
Newspaper Association of America
Adbusters -- Taking back the power of images
CNN about adbusters and buy nothing day
Adbusters on You Tube
Ch 13
media effects
10 .Online Discussion - Media effects
QUIZ 10 - Media effects
Propaganda and media effects
Bowling for Columbine http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bowlling+for+columbine&aq=f
College students have less empathy -- USA Today
Are gadgets helping or hurting? -- Washingont Post
Media democracy, not censorship, the answer to violence -- Media Awareness Network
Children and TV Violence -- AACAP