Shirin Kouladjie   |   Days of My Life : 2001.04.29
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Mass Media and New Media

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EVENTS AND NOTES

Be sure to attend a screening of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, a 2003 documentary re: the failed April 2002 coup attempt against Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain. It's part of OffScreen's Film Series for the semester, and it will be showing on Sunday 02.29 at 7 pm and 9.30 pm.

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Tuesday 03.02 is popularly known in the U.S.A. as "Super Tuesday" because of the number of delegates available to the opposition party in the primary elections. A map of this year's Democratic Party primaries shows delegates up for grabs in the following states: California (440), Connecticut (61), Georgia (102), Hawaii (29), Maryland (98), Massachusetts (121), Minnesota (86), New York (284), Ohio (159), Rhode Island (32), Vermont (22), and Washington (95).

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MAIN READINGS

Wilson, Michele. "Community in the Abstract: A Political and Ethical Dilemma?" The
    Cybercultures Reader. Ed. David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy. New York: Routledge, 2000.
   [Selections TK in the Materials Section of Jim Cocola's MDST 322 Collage and New Media, Spring 2004]

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SELECTED TEXTS

Adorno, Theodor and Max Horkheimer. "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception." The Cultural Studies
    Reader. Ed. Simon During. New York: Routledge, 1993.
   [Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 in the Materials Section of Aniko Bodroghkozy's MDST 301 Theory and Criticism of Media, Fall 2002]

Gitlin, Todd. "Media and Sociology: The Dominant Paradigm" Theory and Society 6.2 (September 1978): 205-255.
   [Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 in the Materials Section of Aniko Bodroghkozy's MDST 301 Theory and Criticism of Media, Fall 2002]

Hall, Stuart, et al. "The Social Production of News." Policing the Crisis: Mugging, The State, and Law and Order.
    London: Macmillan, 1978.
   [In the Materials Section of Aniko Bodroghkozy's MDST 301 Theory and Criticism of Media, Fall 2002]

McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw Hill, 1964.
   [Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 in the Materials Section of Aniko Bodroghkozy's MDST 301 Theory and Criticism of Media, Fall 2002]

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SUGGESTED ASSIGNMENTS

1. Hypertext Response: Document the presentation of the week's news across various media outlets, from internet to newspaper to television. Note discrepancies. Note uses of collage in the presentation of information (from photo/caption relationship to the multiple tickers of the cable news channels). How do different news outlets structure their content, in print, digital, and/or video form? What are the political implications of such choices?

2. Web Presence: Help complete our directory of domestic, international and internet news sources.

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DOMESTIC NEWS SOURCES

ABC
CBS
FOX
NBC

CNN
MSNBC
PBS

The New York Times
The Washington Post
The Chicago Tribune
The Los Angeles Times
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SOURCES

The Guardian [England]
The Independent [England]
The Telegraph [England]
The Times [England]

The Toronto Star [Canada]
Le Soleil [Quebec]
La Jornadra [Mexico]

El Pais [Spain]
Le Monde [France]
Corriere Della Serra [Italy]

Haaretz [Israel]
Dawn [Pakistan]
The Times [India]

The Guardian [Nigeria]
The Natal Witness [South Africa]
The Sydney Morning Herald [Australia]

CBC [Canada]
CNI [Mexico]
CVM [Jamaica]

BBC [England]
ITV [England]
Channel 4 [England]

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INTERNET NEWS SOURCES

Drudge Report
Salon
Slate

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LINKS

John Bugbee's MDST324 Western Media and The Mideast, Spring 2004.

Cavalier Daily columnist Jim Prosser's 2003.11.18 editorial on "Politics for the Digital Age".

Slate columnist Chris Suellentrop on Howard Dean's 'open-source politics'.

Blog for America is Dean's official weblog.

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