COMT 320-001

Media Studies: Intro to Mass Communication

Spring 2007

Links to required readings

Week 1: Kornblum: "Americans will devote half their lives to forms of media..."

Week 2: Cerf: "How the Internet changed communication"

Week 2: Gitlin: Introduction to Media Unlimited

Week 3: Mitchell: "Reading between the lines"

Week 3: Massing: "Off course"

Week 4: Curtis: "TV Guide: literature for couch potatoes"

Week 4: Grenier: "The newsweeklies"

Week 5: Sharlet: "Big world"

Week 6: Helft: "Morse Code: a fading signal"

Week 7: Gabler: "Movies just don't matter"

Week 9: Fallows: "Artificial intelligentsia"

Week 9: Seelye: "Answering back to the news media"

Week 9: Hirschorn: "Thank you, YouTube"

Week 10: Harper's: "Grand theft education"

Week 10: Robischon: "Video gaming on network TV"

Week 10: Rauch: "Sex, lies, and video games"

Week 12: Surowiecki: "Commercial conversations"

Week 13: Stauber: "War on truth"