OUTLINES
CORE 114

I. Foundations for Media Literacy
Ewen: Channels of Desire; Prologue
Lecture: The Need for Media Literacy
Mills: The Power Elite, Chapter 1
Hinkley: What is a Corporation?
Turner: My Beef with Big Media
Lecture: The Elements of Media Literacy

II. Interpreting Media Content
    A.  Entertainment
Lecture: Entertainment - Functions and Distortions
Landau: The Film Industry - Business and Ideology

    B.  News
Lecture: The Construction of News
Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death, "Now. . . This"
MEF: The Myth of the Liberal Media (video)

    C.  Commercial Propaganda
Lecture: Advertising
Lecture: Public Relations & Advertising
Curtis: The Century of the Self (video)
MEF: Toxic Sludge is Good for You (video)
Klein: No Logo, Culture Jamming
Klien: No Logo (video)

     D.  Political Propaganda
Rushkoff: The Persuaders (video)

     E.  Social Propaganda
Lecture: Social Propaganda