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| COM 75-604 | Fall 2021 |
Course Schedule and Resource Links:
| Media & Culture |
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| COM 75-604 | Fall 2021 |
Course Schedule and Resource Links:
Aug 24: Mapping the Course and "Bob's Dead Media Show"Aug 26: Introduction to studying the interrelationship between media & culture
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 1; Herrman; Graff & Birkenstein
Due: Discussion QuestionsAug 31: Media/Culture Interfaces I: What do media do?
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 13; McLuhan; Ong; Carey
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 1
Sep 2: Media/Culture Interfaces II: What do we do with media?
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 11; Ott/Mack, Ch. 12; Schrock
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 2
Sep 7: Media/Culture Key Issues I: Publics and Counterpublics
Read: Althusser; Warner; de Souza e Silva & Frith; Baym & boyd; Dejmanee et al.
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 3
Sep 9: Media/Culture Key Issues II: Seeing, Showing, and Being Seen
Read: Dubrofsky; Sloop & Gunn; Manokha; Zayas & Bouhaben
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 4
Sep 14: Reading Day
Sep 16: Reading Day
Sep 21: “My Media” Project Presentations
Due: My Media Presentation and 1-page outline/bibliography
Sep 23: Marxist Media Analysis
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 2; Adorno & Horkheimer
Due: Discussion Questions
Sep 28: Media Framing; Workshop on Media Analysis Project
Read: Ott/Mack, Chs. 3 and 4
Due: Discussion Questions
Sep 30: Media Framing
Read: Jenkins; Banks; Rister & McClure
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 5
Oct 5: Rhetorical Media Analysis
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 5; Edrington & Gallagher
Due: Discussion Questions
Oct 7: Cultural Media Analysis
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 6
Due: Discussion Questions
Oct 12: Fall Break--No Class
Oct 14: Cultural Media Analysis
Read: Asante & Pindi; Cramer; Joseph & Winfield
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 6
Oct 19: Psychoanalytic Media Analysis
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 7; McAllister & DeCarvalho
Oct 21: Feminist Media Analysis; Workshop on Research Project
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 8
Due: Discussion Questions
Oct 26: Feminist Media Analysis
Read: Baxter; Gill & Elias; Williams
Due: Take-Home Writing Assignment 7
Oct 28: Queer Media Analysis
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 9
Due: Media Analysis Project
Due: Discussion Questions
Nov 2: Queer Media Analysis
Read: Butler; Tropiano; Weiss; Capuzza & Spencer
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 8
Nov 4: Research Consultations
Due: Research Project Proposal
Nov 9: Reception Analysis
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 10; Hall 2001
Due: Discussion Questions
Nov 11: Reception Analysis
Read: Utley; Kozinets, Patterson & Ashman; Phillips, Miller & McQuarie
Due: Take-Home Critical Engagement Assignment 9
Nov 16: Review
Read: Ott/Mack, Ch. 14; Harold
Due: Discussion Questions
Nov 18: COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
Nov 23: Research Consultations
Nov 25: No Class—Thanksgiving
Nov 30: Final Research Project Presentations
Dec 2: Final Research Project Presentations/Course Evaluations
Thursday, Dec 9:
Due: Final Research Project Paper [electronic submission--No later than 6:00 PM]
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