Apr 14th = Final Exam Review Bring all your notes and readings to this class and your recitation this week, along with the final exam study sheet (to be posted online Apr 12th). Last Couple Overheads for the Course -- Now Go Back and Study 'em! Key Aspects of the Contemporary Media Environment What You Can Do To Improve Our Media Culture Overheads from Lecture Twenty: Development of Regulation (Apr 7th) Your friend and mine, The Electromagnetic Spectrum Federal Communications Act of 1934 Technological Determinism vs. Cultural Determinism How Technologies Grow and Change Forces that Shaped the Development of Radio and the Internet Overheads from Lecture Eighteen: TV News (March 29th) 2 common myths about broadcast news Objectivity as a Set of Formal Procedures How Objectivity Protects Reporters Overheads from Lecture Sixteen: Five Filters (March 22nd) Assumptions of the "Hyde Park Soapbox" model Market constraints on free speech Differences Between Advertising and PR PR and the News: A Delicate Symbiosis Overheads for Lecture Thirteen: Politics and Representation (March 3rd) What's Political About Representation? Overhead for Lecture Twelve: Ideology (March 1st) Characteristics of Ideology Today Overheads for Lecture Eleven: Narrative (Feb 25th) What Narratives Do In Media Texts Overheads for Lecture Ten: Realism in Reality TV (Feb 16th-23rd) Why reality TV is so cheap to produce Reality shows, reality, and TV genres: yet another delicate symbiosis Some implications of Cops' narrative and televisual style Overheads for Lecture Nine: Realism in Film (Feb 11th) Introducing Conventions, Representation, and Realism What makes a media text realistic? Overheads for Lecture Eight: Other Models of Media Production (Feb 9th) Overheads from Lecture Seven: Making Money on Content / Intellectual Property (Feb 4th) Syndication: Big Bucks in Broadcasting Intellectual Property on a Stick Digital Media and Intellectual Property Issues Overheads from Lecture Six: Mass and Specialized Audiences (Feb 2nd) A Mass Audience for a Mass Medium Specialized Audiences for Mass Media Overheads from Lecture Five: The Commodity Audience (Jan 28th -- I'm behind, as expected) What's Different About Broadcast Audiences Overheads from Lecture Four: Advertising and Culture (Jan 21st) Why Corporations Think Synergy is Cool Effects of Synergy on Media Content Overheads from Lecture
Three: Advertising (Jan 14th) Big Media Corporations: Their Motivations How Big Media Corporations Maximize Their Profits Follow the Money: Media Products A Critical Perspective on Mass Communication Print 'em out, bring 'em to class, fill 'em in.
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