01.05.2004 

introduction

• topic: course overview
• assignment one:
  • buy the required texts
  • put up a home page on the web;
  • subscribe to the course list: <fdm194g-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>
  • do the reading for wednesday (listed immediately below)
  • write a short (500 word) opinion piece about the readings. post it to your website and mail the url to the professor. bring a printed copy of the your opinion to the next class meeting.
• reading
  • ben bagdikian, the media monopoly (chapter 1)
  • edward herman and noam chomsky, "a propaganda model"
  • neil hickey, "fcc: ready, set, consolidate"
  • columbia journalism review, "who owns what?"
  • "the big ten", the nation, jan. 7-14, 2002
  • mediachannel.org, "the media ownership chart"

01.07.2004 

media ownership

• topic: review of readings and assignment for next time
• due: assignment one
• assignment two: who owns whom? your assignment for this week is to explore the media ownership of our immediate area (california central coast). you may work in a group if you would like to. ...more

01.12.2004 

media ownership

• topic: review of student work
• due: assignment two
• reading
  • herbert gans, deciding what's news (chapters 1 and 4)
  • teun van dijk, racism and the press (chapter 6)
  • steve rendall, "fox's slanted sources: conservatives, republicans far outnumber others"
• assignment three: write a short (500 word) opinion piece about the readings. post it to your website and mail the url to the professor. bring a printed copy of the your opinion to the next class meeting.

01.14.2004 

news sources

• due: assignment three
• assignment four: revealing sources: explore the sources of the news cited in the new york times online...more

01.19.2004 

no class / holiday

01.21.2004 

news sources

• due: assignment four
• reading:
  • indymedia, indymedia's frequently asked questions
• screening: manufacturing consent: noam chomsky and the media, producer and director, mark achbar, peter wintonick; producer, adam symansky
• assignment five: indymedia story: create a short story for indymedia santa cruz and post it to the indymedia website...more

01.26.2004 

independent media

• due: assignment five
• reading
  • teun van dijk, "news schemata"
  • ralph grishman, "information extraction"
  • christopher riesbeck, "micro sam"
  • roger schank and robert abelson, "scripts"
• assignment six: write a short (500 word) opinion piece about the readings. post it to your website and mail the url to the professor. bring a printed copy of the your opinion to the next class meeting.

01.28.2004 

narrative form

• due: assignment six
• assignment seven: inverting the pyramid compare the narrative forms used in domestic and foreign news productions...more

02.02.2004 

narrative form

• due: assignment
• reading
  • sara elo, "plum: contextualizing news for communities through augmentation"
  • richard terdiman, discourse/counter-discourse
• assignment eight: write a short (500 word) opinion piece about the readings. post it to your website and mail the url to the professor. bring a printed copy of the your opinion to the next class meeting.

04.02.2004 

personalization and point of view

• due: assignment eight
• assignment nine: extra! extra! annotating the news with community-specific information...more

09.02.2004 

personalization and point of view

• due: assignment nine
• reading
  • george lakoff, "metaphors of the gulf war"
  • george lakoff, "metaphors of terror (9/11)"
  • warren sack, actor-role analysis: ideology, point of view and the news
• assignment ten: write a short (500 word) opinion piece about the readings. post it to your website and mail the url to the professor. bring a printed copy of the your opinion to the next class meeting.

11.02.2004 

ideology, myth and metaphor

• due: assignment ten
• reading:
  • edward said, covering islam, "introduction," and "chapter 1" (pp. ix - 73)
  • edward said, orientalism, "introduction" (pp. 1 - 28)
• assignment eleven: all the news that fits identify point of view and ideology in news stories...more

16.02.2004 

no class / holiday

18.02.2004 

ideology, myth and metaphor

• due: assignment eleven
• assignment twelve: lost in translation experiment with machine translation tools...more

23.02.2004 

translation and cultural difference

• due: assignment twelve
• reading
  • robert e. park, "the immigrant press and its control"
  • benedict anderson, "nationalism and imperialism" from imagined communities
• assignment thirteen: write a short (500 word) opinion piece about the readings. post it to your website and mail the url to the professor. bring a printed copy of the your opinion to the next class meeting.

25.02.2004 

language and nationalism

• due: assignment thirteen
• assignment fourteen: the immigrant press today find two or more non-english language news products that are produced for an american audience. these products might be television shows, radio programs, webpages, or even newsgroups. and, they might not be produced exclusively for an american audience. for example, television broadcasts from southern california might also be intended for an american and a mexican market. if the products you find can be found on the net (e.g., Internet-streamed radio stations, newsgroups, web-based newspapers, etc.)then post the url's to your webpage with a short description of the resource found. if they are not computer-network based then, for example, you might bring a videotape of a short segment from a tv channel broadcast or a short recording of audio from a radio broadcast. write a short description of the news products and post the description to the web.

01.03.2004 

language and nationalism

• due: assignment fourteen
• reading
  • hodges and kress, news and ideology
  • bruno latour, science in action
  • warren sack, "questioning the news"
• assignment fifteen: write a short (500 word) opinion piece about the readings. post it to your website and mail the url to the professor. bring a printed copy of the your opinion to the next class meeting.

03.03.2004 

objectivity

• due: assignment fifteen
• assignment sixteen: just the facts mam! follow the development of a fact in the news....more

08.03.2004 

objectivity

• due: assignment sixteen
• reading
  • gill branston, "audience," in the media studies book: a guide for teachers, lusted (editor)
  • debra spitulnik, "mobile machines and fluid audiences: rethinking reception through zambian radio culture, in media worlds: anthropology on new terrain, ginsburg, abu-lughod and larkin (editors)
  • ien ang, "new technologies, audience measurement and the tactics of television consumption," in living room wars: rethinking media audiences for a postmodern world
  • anna mccarthy, "television while you wait," in ambient television: visual culture and public space
• assignment seventeen: write a short (500 word) opinion piece about the readings. post it to your website and mail the url to the professor. bring a printed copy of the your opinion to the next class meeting.

10.03.2004 

international differences and reception

• due: assignment seventeen
• assignment eighteen: news diary: keep track of where, when and with whom you hear or see or read the news...more