JOUR
2011
Media and Public Culture
Fall 2004
Lectures: MW, 3:00 – 3:50
HUMN 150
Prof. Andrew Calabrese
103A Armory
Phone: 492-5374
E-mail: andrew.calabrese@colorado.edu
Office hours: M, W 4:00 – 5:00, or by appointment
Recitations:
Recitation
instructors will be:
Elizabeth Franko (elizabeth.franko@colorado.edu)
Robert Peaslee (robert.peaslee@colorado.edu)
Ildiko Rezmuves (rezmuves@colorado.edu)
All recitations are on Fridays at the following times and locations:
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Section |
Instructor |
Time |
Location |
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110 |
Liz |
8-9 |
KTCH 118 |
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120 |
Rob |
3-4 |
KTCH 119 |
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130 |
Ildi |
2-3 |
HUMN 1B70 |
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140 |
Liz |
3-4 |
KTCH 118 |
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150 |
Rob |
8-9 |
FA N185 |
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160 |
Ildi |
3-4 |
HUMN 1B70 |
Course Description:
This course examines the historical development of the relationship of media, culture, and the public. It traces the development of various communication technologies, their impacts on culture, and their relationships to various conceptions of "the public." It draws on this history to also explore current debates about the influences of media technologies and popular culture on public life.
JOUR 2011, Media and Public Culture, is one of four core courses required of all journalism and mass communication majors and is intended to give students conceptual and historical background for further study of and practice in the media. It is divided into three weekly meetings: two lecture sessions with the professor (Monday and Wednesday) and one recitation/discussion session with a graduate teaching assistant (Friday). The recitation sessions will draw on issues raised in the lectures and allow for extensive discussion and in-class exercises. Keeping up with the reading, attending lectures and recitation sessions, and participating in discussions and exercises are essential to doing well in the course.
There are two exams (a mid-semester and final) and four short papers. The format of the exams will be multiple choice and short answers drawn from readings, lectures and recitation activities; the mid-semester and final exams are each worth 25% of your course grade. Each written assignment is worth 10% of the course grade. Attendance and participation in the recitation sessions is worth 10% of the course grade. Course grades will be based as follows: 4.0 = A; 3.7 = A-; 3.3 = B+; 3.0 = B; 2.7 = B-; 2.3 = C+; 2.0 = C; 1.7 = C-; 1.3 = D+; 1.0 = D; 0.7 = D-; 0.0 = F.
All written assignments are due on the dates listed below. Written assignments must be typed and double-spaced. Both exams must be taken on the dates listed below. No early exams will be given. Make-up exams will be given in cases of serious medical problems that are verified by a physician or health service provider. If you are having difficulty keeping up with the assignments, meeting deadlines, etc., please let us know as soon as a problem arises.
Disabilities: If you qualify for
accommodations because of a disability, please submit to me a letter from
Disability Services (DS) early in the semester so that your needs may be
addressed. DS determines accommodations
based on documented disabilities (303-492-8671, Willard 322).s
Religious observance: If you have a
religious obligation that conflicts with a particular date of classroom
attendance, or with meeting an assignment deadline, please notify me two weeks
prior to the date so that we may consider possible solutions to the conflict.
Classroom behavior: As a result of
extensive discussions with and recommendations from faculty and students, the University
has a new classroom behavior policy.
Please consult the policy at: (http://www.colorado.edu/policies/index.html).
Honor code: According to the university’s honor
code, students must neither give nor receive unauthorized assistance on the
work they do. You are responsible for knowing and adhering to this code. The
honor code is available at: (http://www.colorado.edu/academics/honorcode/).
Please pay particular attention to the definitions of various forms of academic
dishonesty so that you may be certain that you are not in violation of the
code.
Readings/Course Materials:
John Downing, Ali Mohammadi and Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, eds., Questioning the Media, 2nd ed. (Sage, 1995). [Referred to below as: QM]
Additional readings will include occasional handouts distributed in class, materials to be retrieved online by you from the Internet (links to online readings will be provided via the syllabus web page), and materials on electronic reserve via Chinook.
Lecture Outlines: Reproductions of transparencies that were used for outlines of class lectures will be posted on this web site prior to the exam to which they apply. However, you should not consider those outlines as substitutes for attending class, since they are outlines and do not provide the detailed explanations and examples presented in the class lectures.
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Mon. 8/23 |
Introduction and
overview |
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Wed. 8/25 |
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Fri. 8/27 |
Key concepts, cont’d. |
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O’Connor & Downing, "Culture and
communication," ch. 1 in QM. |
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Mon. 8/30 |
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Sreberny-Mohammadi, "Forms of media as ways of knowing," ch. 2 in QM. |
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Wed. 9/1 |
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From Wikipedia: J.M.S. Careless, “Harold
Adams Innis: Blazing the communications trail.” |
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Fri. 9/3 |
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Meyrowitz, "Mediating communication,"
ch. 3 in QM. |
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Mon. 9/6 |
LABOR DAY – NO CLASSES |
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Wed. 9/8 |
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“Interpretations of the impact of print,” History of Publishing Website. “Eisenstein: Printing revolution in early modern Europe,” History of Publishing Website. “Eisenstein:
Western Christendom disrupted,” History of Publishing Website. |
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Fri. 9/10 |
Assignment #1
due (forms of media) |
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Mon. 9/13 |
Literacy and cultural identity, cont'd. |
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“Febvre and
Martin: The coming of the book,” History of Publishing Website. |
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Wed. 9/15 |
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Immanuel Kant, "What
is enlightenment?" |
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Fri. 9/17 |
"Public space": What is it, and how
should we use it? |
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Ray |
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Mon. 9/20 |
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General summary of Jurgen Habermas’s Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, in Spark Notes. Also: read links from this article to the following terms: - public sphere - representative publicity - rational-critical debate - refeudalization |
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Wed. 9/22 |
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Alexis de Tocqueville, "The unlimited power of the majority in the United States, and its consequences," from his Democracy in America, vol. 1. C. Wright Mills, "The
mass society," in his The Power Elite. |
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Fri. 9/24 |
Journalism and the good citizen |
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Michael Schudson, "The new
journalism." [e-reserve on Chinook] |
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Mon. 9/27 |
Mass society cont’d. |
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Negus, “Popular music,” ch. 22 in QM. |
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Wed. 9/29 |
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Kellner, "Advertising and consumer culture," ch. 19 in QM. |
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Fri. 10/1 |
FALL BREAK – NO CLASSES |
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Mon. 10/4 |
Critics
of the pubic sphere; Assignment
#2 due in class |
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Michael Schudson, “Was there ever a public
sphere? If so, when? Reflections on the American case.” [e-reserve on
Chinook] Christopher Lasch, “Journalism, publicity and
the lost art of argument.” [e-reserve on Chinook] |
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Wed. 10/6 |
Review for midterm |
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Fri. 10/8 |
Study day (TAs will be available at recitation
times) |
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Mon. 10/11 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
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Wed. 10/13 |
Constructing the audience |
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Ang, "The nature of the audience," ch. 12 in QM. Gandy, "Tracking the audience," ch. 13
in QM |
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Fri. 10/15 |
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Corea, "Racism and the American way of media," ch. 20 in QM Lyrics of "Fear of a Black Planet." |
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Mon. 10/18 |
Video: "Ethnic Notions." |
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Wed. 10/20 |
Stereotyping continued: Media and gender |
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Van Zoonen, "Gender, representation, and
the media," ch. 18 in QM |
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Fri. 10/22 |
Information poverty and the "digital
divide" |
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Cees J. Hamelink, "Information imbalance
across the globe," ch. 17 in QM. |
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Mon. 10/25 |
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Ali Mohammadi, "Cultural imperialism and
cultural identity," ch. 21 in QM |
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Wed. 10/27 |
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Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, "What fate awaits the world’s languages?" on e-reserve. Cees J. Hamelink, "Language and the right
to communicate," on e-reserve. |
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Fri. 10/29 |
Spanish-language media in the |
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Brent Cunningham, “The Latino Puzzle
Challenges the Heartland,” |
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Mon. 11/1 |
Video: The First
Universal Nation |
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Wed. 11/3 |
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Demac & Sung, "New communication
technologies and deregulation," ch. 16 in QM. |
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Fri. 11/5 |
Media policy and
media literacy |
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Mon. 11/8 |
Media, culture and
public policy, cont’d. |
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John Dunbar, Daniel Lathrop & Robert Morlino, Networks of Influence: The Political Power of the Communications Industry (10/28, 04). The Center for Public Integrity. Hal Plotkin, “All hail creative commons.” San Francisco Chronicle (2/11/02). |
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Wed. 11/10 |
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Webster’s world of cultural policy New Deal cultural programs:
Experiments in cultural democracy |
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Fri. 11/12 |
Assignment
#3 due in class |
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Mon. 11/15 |
Guest lecture: Prof.
Elizabeth Skewes on media coverage of the 2004 Presidential Election |
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James Carney and John F. Dickerson, “W and
the Boy Genius,” Time. |
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Wed. 11/17 |
Documentary on
election campaigning |
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Fri. 11/19 |
Discussion of
media responsibility in election coverage |
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Thomas E.
Patterson, Eleven
Recommendations for Improving Election Night Coverage. |
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Mon. 11/22 |
Guest
presentation by Alan Kirkpatrick, Director of the SJMC Internship Program |
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Wed. 11/24 |
No class |
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Fri. 11/26 |
THANKSGIVING – NO CLASSES |
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Mon. 11/29 |
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Project Censored, “Corporate personhood
challenged” |
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Wed. 12/1 |
Media
and citizenship, cont’d. |
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Dorothy E. Denning, “Is Cyber Terror Next?”
in After September 11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences ( |
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Fri. 12/3 |
Assignment
#4 due: “A career in the media” |
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Mon. 12/6 |
Review for final |
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Wed. 12/8 |
Study day (TAs will be available at class time) |
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Fri. 12/10 |
FINAL EXAM (7:30 – 10:00 a.m. in HUMN 150) |
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