COMT 320-001
Media Studies: Introduction to Mass Communication
Syllabus (as of 1/8/07)
Assignment calendar (as of 4/10/07)
Panel discussion schedule (as of 4/10/07)
My lecture notes (PowerPoint)
RESEARCH PAPER:
- part 2 (more details about topic options, literature reviews, and databases)
- part 3 (about citations and references)
- a scholarly mass communication article written/formatted in APA style
Other readings you might be interested in
- Broadcast pioneer Frank Stanton's obituary
- Fatter, taller, and thirstier Americans
- Newspapers that molded the masses
Links to important media organizations
- The New York Times (home page)
- The New York Times (media & advertising section)
- The Washington Post's "Media Notes" column (by Howard Kurtz)
- CNN
- World Newspapers (links to media watchdog sites, media research sites, and media outlets)
Media "watchdog" sites operating from a progressive/liberal standpoint:
- Accuracy.org (Institute for Public Accuracy: media and public affairs)
- FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
- ProjectCensored.org (overtly anti-corporate-media site focusing on news not covered by "MSM")
- Cursor.org (watchdog site AND links to just about every news outlet in the world)
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MediaLens.org (UK-based site self-described as "correcting for the distorted
vision of the corporate media")
Media "watchdog" sites operating from a conservative standpoint
- AIM.org (Accuracy in the Media)
- ParentsTV.org (run by Brent Bozell's Parents Television Council)
Media "watchdog" sites (purportedly) operating from a non-partisan standpoint
- CMPA.com (Center for Media and Public affairs)
- CJRdaily.org (Columbia Journalism Review's daily blog offering media criticism and news updates)
- FactCheck.org (not a media watchdog site per se; rather U.Penn-Annenberg Policy Center's non-partisan political BS-buster site)