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Introduction to Media Studies

Art: John Farey, Printing press, 1819 · Public domain

Instructors: Flourish Klink, Kim Vaeth
Term: Fall 2014
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 1 reading · 7 other files · 2 web pages
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Introduction to Media Studies

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Lecture 1: Welcome, syllabus review, getting to know you games. No readings assigned.

Lecture 3: Ong, Walter. “The Orality of Language.” In Orality and Literacy . Routledge, 2012. ISBN: 9780415538381. [Preview with Google Books ]

Lecture 4: Sontag, Susan. “In Plato’s Cave.” In On Photography . Penguin Books, 2010. ISBN: 9780141035789.

Lecture 5: Kim Vaeth lectures on writing. Bring a copy of your “24 Hours” notes to class.

Lecture 6: Solnit, Rebecca. “The Annihilation of Time and Space.” In River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West . Penguin, 2004. ISBN: 9780142004104. [Preview with Google Books ]

Lecture 7: Chatman, Seymour. “What Novels Can Do That Films Can’t (And Vice Versa).” In Critical Inquiry: The Process of Argument . Michael Boylan. Westview Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780813344522.

Lecture 8: Dyer, Richard. “The Light of the World.” In White . Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415095372. [Preview with Google Books ]

Lecture 9: No new readings assigned.

Lecture 11: Adorno, Theodor, and Max Horkheimer. “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception.” In Dialectic of Enlightenment . Stanford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780804736336. [Preview with Google Books ]

Lecture 12: Barthes, Roland. “The World of Wrestling.” In Mythologies . RHUK, 2009. ISBN: 9780099529750.

Lecture 13: Geertz, Clifford. “Thick Description: Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture.” In The Interpretation of Cultures . Basic Books, 1977. ISBN: 9780465097197.

Lecture 15: Revision workshop with Kim Vaeth.“Media Analysis 1.0” papers returned. No new readings assigned.

Lecture 16: McLaughlin, Thomas. “Pedagogy and Vernacular Theory.” In Street Smarts and Critical Theory: Listening to the Vernacular . University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780299151744. [Preview with Google Books ]

Lecture 17: Hall, Stuart. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse . University of B’ham., Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 1973. ISBN: 9780704404571.

Lecture 19: Media Watch and discuss La Jetée . Directed by Chris Marker. Black & White, 28 min. 1962.

Lecture 20: Visit the Trope Tank , Nick Montfort’s lab

Lecture 21: Jenkins, Henry, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green. “Where Web 2.0 Went Wrong.” In Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked . NYU Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780814743508. [Preview with Google Books ]

Lecture 23: Jenkins, Henry. “Introduction: Worship at the Altar of Convergence.” In Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide . NYU Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780814742952. [Preview with Google Books ]

Lecture 24: No new readings assigned.

Lecture 25: No new readings assigned.

Lecture 26: Wrap up. Discuss class improvements. Turkle, Sherry. “Always On.” In Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other . Basic Books, 2012. ISBN: 9780465031467. Shirky, Clay. “ Does The Internet Make You Smarter? ” The Wall Street Journal , June 4, 2010.