The article you are going to read for this lecture presents an interesting case study of how people perceive the threat of hate speech in the early (i.e. 2001) Internet. Here are some things to consider/pay attention to as you…
Tomorrow’s lecture will serve as a transition of sorts to discussions of how media and communications technologies affect the world in which we live. The reading will be the second half of Domic Boyer’s Understanding Media. While reading, watch out…
For tomorrow we will be reading Daniel Hallin’s “Commercialism and Professionalism in the American News Media.” Hallin is a professor in our department. Here are some things to think about when reading the piece: What do you think makes for…
For tomorrow you will be reading a selection from Michael Schudson’s book Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impacts on American Society. (For those of you who don’t know, Schudson was a professor in our department until a couple years…
For Monday, here are the links to the “readings:” Required: On the Media (radio show) “The Shifting State of Internet Governance” Roni Jacobson, “Nobody is Neutral When It Comes to Net Neutrality” Whitney Erin Boesel “Almost Everything You Wanted to…
For Wednesday’s lecture we’ll be finishing up on Marshall McLuhan and Understanding Media and moving on to discussing the early history of communications research. Some things to look for in the Czitrom selection you’ll be reading: Pay attention to the…
For tomorrow you will be reading the first half of Dominc Boyer’s Understanding Media. Here are some things to think about and look for to help guide your reading. Look for the historical continuity in McLuhan’s claim the “the medium…