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Comm 10 winter 15 reading schedule

WEEK 1

January 5
·       Introduction and overview
·       Raymond Williams 1976 “Communication” and “Media” Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society New York: Oxford University Press.

January 7
·       Erving Goffman “The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life” in The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life TED
·       George Herbert Mead 1993 “The Self the I, and the Me” (1929) Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classical Readings Charles Lemert, ed. Boulder, CO: Westview.

January 9
·       Marcel Danesi 1999 “What Does It Mean? How Humans Represent the World” in Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things: an Introduction to Semiotics. St. Martin’s Press.

 
WEEK 2

January 12
·       Stuart Hall 1997 “Introduction” and part of “The Work of Representation” Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices Sage Publications.
Recommended
·       Marcel Danesi 1999 “What Does It Mean? How Humans Represent the World” in Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things: an Introduction to Semiotics. St. Martin’s Press.

January 14
·       Scott Kiesling 2003 “Dude” in American Speech Vol. 79, No. 3.

January 16
·       Robin Lakoff 1990 “Language, Politics, and Power” Talking Power: The Politics of Language in Our Lives. New York: Basic Books.
·       Pages 555-564 of Aki Uchida “When ‘Difference’ Is ‘Dominance’: A Critique of the ‘Anti-Power-Based’ Cultural Approach to Sex Differences.” TED
·       Screening of He Said She Said by Deborah Tannen


WEEK 3

January 19
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday – No Class

January 21
Communication Analysis Project Part I Due
·       Gloria Anzaldua 1987 “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books.
·       Geneva Smitherman, 1980 “White English in Blackface or Who Do I Be?” The State of the Language, eds. Leonard Michaels & Christopher Ricks UC Press.
·       Amy Tan, “The Red Candle” and “Rules of the Game” in The Joy Luck Club New York: Vintage Books, 1989. Available through e-reserves at library website.

January 23
·       Dwight McBride 2005 “Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch” Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch New York: New York University Press. Available as e-book through library’s online catalog.
Recommended
·       Dick Hebdige 1979 Subculture: The Meaning of Style

WEEK 4

January 26
·       Raymond Williams “The Technology and the Society” in Television: Technology and Cultural Form.
·       David Thorburn & Henry Jenkins “Towards an Aesthetics of Transition” in Rethinking Media Change. TED

January 28
·       Elizabeth Eisenstein 1980 “The Emergence of Print Culture in the West” Journal of Communication Winter. E-reserves.

January 30
·       Jonathan Gray, 2008 “Art With Strings Attached” in Television and Entertainment. TED

WEEK 5

February 2

·       Walter Lippman 1922 “The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads” Public Opinion  New York: Free Press. E-reserves

February 4
·       Michael Schudson “Political observatories, databases & news in the emerging ecology of public information.” Daedalus Spring, 2010. E-Reserves
·       Jonathan Sterne “What if interactivity is the new passivity?” Flow April 2000. E-Reserves

February 6
·       Nicolas Carr, 2008 “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Atlantic Monthly (July/August). www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/.

WEEK 6

February 9

·       Walter Lippman 1922 “The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads” Public Opinion  New York: Free Press. E-reserves.
·       Michael Schudson 2003 “Where News Came From: The History of Journalism” The Sociology of News New York: W.W. Norton & Company. E-Reserves

February 11
·       Michael Schudson 2003 “Media Bias (Media Effects Part 2)” The Sociology of News New York: W.W. Norton & Company. E-Reserves
·       Todd Gitlin 2003 “Introduction” in The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left University of California Press.

February 13
·       Jane Rhodes 1993 “The Visibility of Race and Media History” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 20:2.
·       Screening of selections from The Black Press by Stanley Nelson

Week Seven

February 16
President’s Day Holiday, No Class

February 18

Communication Analysis Project Part II Due
·       Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer 1993 “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” The Cultural Studies Reader Simon During (ed.) New York: Routledge.

February 20
·       Vickie Rutledge Shields 2005 “The Less Space We Take the More Powerful We’ll Be.” A Companion to Media Studies, Angharad Valdivia (ed) John Wiley & Sons.
·       Jennifer Siebel Newsom, (2011) Miss Representation
Recommended
·       Julie D’Acci “Television, Representation and Gender” in Robert C. Allen & Annette Hill (eds.) The Television Studies Reader.

WEEK 8

February 23
·       Laura Mulvey 2003 “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” Amelia Jones, ed. The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. London; New York: Routledge.

February 25
·       bell hooks 1992 “The “Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators” Black Looks: Race and Representation South End Press.
·       Lorna Roth, pages 1010 of “Looking at Shirley, the Ultimate Norm: Colour Balance, Image Technologies, and Cognitive Equity.” Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 34 (1) E-reserves.
·       Screening of selections from Color Adjustment by Marlon Riggs
Recommended
·       Jane Rhodes 1993 “The Visibility of Race and Media History” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 20:2.

February 27
·       Horace Miner 1956 “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” American Anthropologist 58:3, June. E-reserves.
·       Bill Nichols, 1991. “The Ethnographer’s Tale” Visual Anthropology Review 7 (2) Fall. E-reserves.
Recommended
·       Ella Shohat & Robert Stam, 1994. “Stereotype, Realism, and the Struggle over Representation” Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media London: Routledge.

WEEK 9

March 2
·       Stuart Hall 2002 “The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power” Susanne Schech & Jane Haggis (eds.) Development and Power: A Cultural Studies Reader Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
·       Binyavanga Wainaina “How to Write About Africa” Granta 92: The View from Africa January 2006. http://www.granta.com/Archive/92/How-to-Write-about-Africa/Page-1

March 4
·       John Sinclair, Elizabeth Jacka and Stuart Cunningham 1996 “Peripheral Vision” New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision Oxford University Press.
Recommended
·       Sean McBride & Colleen Roach 1989 “The New International Information Order” International Encyclopedia of Communications Erik Barnouw (ed) Oxford University Press.

March 6
·       Arjun Appadurai 1996 “Disjuncture & Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Pages. Available as e-book through library’s online catalog.

WEEK 10

March 9
·       Tim Cresswell 2006 “The Production of Mobilities at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam” On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World New York: Routledge.
·       Akosua Darkwah 2002 “Trading Goes Global: Market Women in an Era of Globalization” in Asian Women Vol. 15.

March 11
·       Merlyna Lim 2012 “Clicks, Cabs, and Coffee Houses: Social Media and Oppositional Movements in Egypt, 2004 – 2011” Journal of Communication 62. E-reserves
·       Vicente Rafael 2003 “The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines” Public Culture 15:3. E-reserves.

March 13
·       Review and wrap-up

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