READINGS:
CORE 164
Spring 2011
Sequential Chronology of Topics and
Assigned Readings
(Note: the following is subject to change)
I. MEDIA ECONOMICS
Hinkley: What is a Corporation?
Lecture: Basic Media Economics
Lecture: Media Concentration
McChesney: The New Global Media (Password Required)
II. MEDIA POLITICS
A. Media Influence on Government & the Political Process
Lewis: Media Money: How Corporate Spending Blocked Political Ad Reform . . .
Hertz: Read It in the Papers (Password Required)
The candidacy of Howard Dean:
Jensen: Why the Media Turned on Gov. Dean
Kincaid: The Media Destroyed Howard Dean
Gilliam: New Media's Influence on Presidential Politics (2 min. streaming video via YouTube)
Lecture: Television & Politics
Bartley/O'Brian: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (74 min. streaming video via Google video)
WikiLeaks
B. Government Influence on Media: Controlling the Message & Messenger
1. Censorship
a. Formal / Direct
Lecture: Government Censorship
RWB: Press Freedom Index 2010
Mintz: U.S. Bans Al-Manar (Password Required)
Leverett: What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran (Password Required)
Schwartz: Obama Backs Off a Reversal on Secrets (Password Required)
Agence F-P: Journalist at Pentagon Barred from WikiLeaks
Discovery-Time: Reporters at War (Password Required)
See also "1st Amendment" below
See also "Federal Communications Commission" below
Note: Self-Censorship
Orwell: Freedom of the Press (Password Required)
Greenwald: Why Government Censorship . . . is Unnecessary (Password Required)
b. Informal / Indirect
i. Copyright
Loren: The Purpose of Copyright
Johnsen: Good Copy, Bad Copy (59 min. streaming video)
Naureckas - Stolen Books (jpg)
ii. Property Right
Corporate Cultural Censorship:
Klein: No Logo: Corporate Censorship (Password Required)
MPAA Movie Ratings
Corporate Political Censorship:
CBS/AP: Disney Blocks Anti-Bush Film
Variety: NBC Cancels Ads
Media Matters: Air America Blacklist Memo
CNET: AT&T's Censorship of Pearl Jam
Shoup: Discovery Channel Puts the Breaks on "Taxi . . ."
WikiLeaks and Corporate Censorship
2. Government Propaganda
a. Overt
Lecture: Propaganda, Bias, and Media
The White House, The Department of Defense, etc.
b. Covert
Rage Against the Machine: Bullet in the Head
Bernays: Propaganda
Chomsky: Media Control (Password Required)
Bernstein: The CIA and the Media (Password Required)
Webb: The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On (Password Required)
Smith: A Strategy of Lies
Real News: Media Took Gov't Cash
Porter: Fiction of Marja as City (Password Required)
Greenwald: Obama Confidant's Spin-Chilling Proposal (Password Required)
3. 1st Amendment
The Bill of Rights
14th Amendment
The Incorporation Doctrine
Selected case law:
Abrams v. U.S., 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)
Roth v. U.S., 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973)
Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931)
Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665 (1972)
4. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - U.S. Regulatory Agency
FCC Home Page
FCC Enforcement actions:
NBC - Golden Globe Awards, Jan. 2003
CBS - Superbowl XXXVIII, Feb. 2004
CBN - 700 Club, Aug. 2005
FCC Investigation:
Comcast - Data Discrimination, Jan. 2008 (Password Required)
- FCC Can't Regulate (Password Required)III. MEDIA EFFECTS
Lecture: Analysis of Media Effects
Simonton - Are Video Game Makers Becoming Responsible?
A. Fear
Lecture: Media & Political Uses of Fear
ASU Research: Media Fear Mongers
Glassner: The Culture of Fear – Chapters 1 & 9 (Password Required)
Greenwald: The Degrading Effects of Terrorism Fears
The Mean World Syndrome (video transcript)
B. Self-Identity
1. Sexuality
Lecture: Pornography & Sexuality
The Price of Pleasure (video transcript)
Sun: Gang Rape and Gang Bang
Lehrer: Porn and Mirror Neurons
2. Gender
Codes of Gender (video transcript)
Lecture: Gender & Media
Wrestling With Manhood (video transcript)
Hole: Be a Man
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (video transcript)
3. Self-ImageMISCELLANEOUS
