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
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