Course ScheduleFall term only. Winter TBA. |
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September 10: Course introduction and logistical information September 17: Holiday -- No Class |
Module 1: Defining the TermsSeptember 24: Critical Thought, Discourse and Humanities1- What Is Humanities? http://fp.uni.edu/robinsoj/Humanities/WHAT%20IS%20HUMANITIES.htm 2-Wikipedia entry for Humanities (also explore the links) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities 3- Wikipedia entry for Discourse (also explore the links) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse 4- Wikipedia entry for Critical Thinking (also read the links in the "See Also" section) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking October 1: On Technology 1- Winner, Langdon. "Techne & Politeia: The Technical Constitution of Society" http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/280/class/winner.html 2- Chandler, Daniel. "Technological or Media Determinism" (read all the sections) http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/tecdet/ Inventory Essay due in lecture October 8: What Is Culture? 1- Hebdige, Dick. "From Culture to Hegemony" On reserve at Scott Library's Reserve Desk. Look under course number or course director's names. 2- Anderson, Benedict. Excerpt from "The Nation as Imagined Community" (also explore the site) http://www.nationalismproject.org/what/anderson.htm October 15: Knowledge and Power 1- Chandler, Daniel. "Marxist Media Theory" (read all of the sections) http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/marxism/marxism10.html 2- Foucault, Michel. "What Is Enlightenment? " http://foucault.info/documents/ whatIsEnlightenment/foucault.whatIsEnlightenment.en.html |
Module 2: A Survey of 5000 Years in 3 Weeks or How We Got Where We AreOctober 22: Orality and Literacy1- Plato. Selection from "Pheadrus" (in course kit) 2- Ong, Walter. Selections from "Orality and Literacy" (in course kit) October 29: Wiring the World: Electric and Electronic Networks 1- Carrey, James. "Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph" (in course kit) 2- Spiegle, Lynn. "Television in the Family Circle" (in course kit) Precis Essay due at the beginning of lecture November 5: The Age of Mass Media 1- McChesney, Robert and Dan Schiller. "The Political Economy of International Communications: Foundations for the Emerging Global Debate over Media Ownership and Regulation" (read these sections only: Introduction, the Mythology of Freedom of Communications in the United States, the Move to Neo-Liberalism, and the Conclusion) originally on http://www.unrisd.org/ download PDF here 2- Grossman, Lawrence K. "The Real World" http://www.bostonreview.net/BR23.3/grossman.html |
Module 3: Media Politics and PoeticsNovember 12: Media and Propaganda1- Staniszewski, Mary Anne. "Exhibition as National Covenant" (in course kit) 2- Chomsky, Noam. "What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream" http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/chomoct97.htm Module Response 1 due at the beginning of lecture November 19: Tactical Media, Counter-Propaganda and the Arts 1- Staniszewski, Mary Anne. "Activism in the Artworld and the Art Workers Coalition" (in course kit) 2- Gomez-Pena, Guillermo. "Naftaztec: Pirate Cyber-TV for A.D. 2000 (in course kit) 3- Hallack, DeeDee. "Paper Tiger Television: Smashing the Myths of the Information Industry Every Week on Public Access Cable" (in course kit) November 26: The Stories We Tell 1- Ball, Jared A. "North America's 21st Century Hip-Hop Colony and the Politics of Cultural Co-optation and Appropriation" http://www.voxunion.com/coup/coupdocs/21st_Century_HipHop_Colony.pdf 2- Kun, Josh. "Reading, Writing, & Rap: Literacy as Rap Sound System" http://eserver.org/bs/12/Kun.html Note added 24/NOV/2004: The server hosting the article by Josh Kun seems to be malfunctioning. You can find a cached version of it here: http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:VFZUicw9JbYJ: bad.eserver.org/issues/1994/12/kun.html +bad+subjects+writing,+rap&hl=en 3- Explore website: "bbc.co.uk Reggae" http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/features/reggae/ Research Proposal due at the beginning of lecture December 3: Mid-term Exam in Scheduled Lecture Time and Place |
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