Critical Media Theory |
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COM 75-604 | Fall 2024 |
Course Schedule and Resource Links:
Aug 27: Mapping the Course and "Bob's Dead Media Show"Aug 29: Introduction to studying Critical Media Theory
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 1; Gottfried; Graff & Birkenstein
Due: Discussion QuestionsSep 3: Media/Culture Interfaces I: What do media do?
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 13; McLuhan; Towns
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 1
Sep 5: Media/Culture Interfaces II: What do we do with media?
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 11; Schrock; de Souza e Silva & Frith
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 2
Sep 10: Media/Culture Key Issues I: Publics and Counterpublics
Read: Althusser; Warner; Baym & boyd
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 3
Sep 12: Media/Culture Key Issues II: Living on Platforms
Read: Khamis et al.; Sweeney-Romero; Griffin
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 4
Sep 17: "My Media" Project Presentations
Due: My Media Presentation and 1-page printed outline/bibliography
Sep 19: Marxist Media Analysis
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 2; Adorno & Horkheimer
Due: Discussion Questions
Sep 24: Media Framing; Workshop on Media Analysis Project
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 3
Due: Discussion Questions
Sep 26: Media Framing
Read: Jenkins; Mourao et al.; Edrington & Gallagher
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 5
Oct 1: Rhetorical Media Analysis
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 5
Due: Discussion Questions
Oct 3: Cultural Media Analysis
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 6
Due: Discussion Questions
Oct 8: Cultural Media Analysis
Read: Cramer; Asante & Pindi; Johnson
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 6
Oct 10: Psychoanalytic Media Analysis; Workshop on Research Project
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 7
Due: Discussion Questions
Oct 15: Fall Break--No Class
Oct 17: Feminist Media Analysis
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 8
Due: Discussion Questions
Oct 22: >>Research/Analysis Consultations<<
Oct 24: >>Research Consultations<<
Due: Media Analysis Project
Oct 29: >>No Class--SUnity Day<<
Oct 31: Feminist Media Analysis
Read: Moro et al.; Izadi & Dryden; Muller et al.
Due: Take-Home Writing Assignment 7
Nov 5: Queer Media Analysis
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 9
Due: Discussion Questions and Research Project Proposal
Nov 7: Queer Media Analysis
Read: Butler; Eguchi & Asante; Cayari
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 8
Nov 12: Reception Analysis
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 10; Hall 2001
Due: Discussion Questions
Nov 14: Reception Analysis
Read: Utley; Cavalcante et al.; Kozinets, Patterson & Ashman
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 9
Nov 19: Review
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 14
Due: Discussion Questions
Nov 21: COMPREHENSIVE IN-CLASS EXAM
Nov 26: >>Research Consultations<<
Nov 28: >>No Class--Thanksgiving<<
Dec 3: Final Research Project Presentations
Dec 5: Final Research Project Presentations/Course Evaluations
Thursday, Dec 12:
Due: Final Research Project Paper [electronic submission--No later than 9:00 PM]
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