Week 1: Introduction to Media, Culture, and Identity
Tuesday, January 12
Thursday, January 14
- M/S, Chapter 1, p. 2-30
- M/S, Chapter 9, p. 294-308
Week 2: Media Technology
Tuesday, January 19
- M/S, Chapter 9, p. 308-321
- Postman, N. (1985). Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business. New York: Viking, p. 3- 29. [Readings tab]
Thursday, January 21
Week 3: Economics of the Media Industry
Tuesday, January 26
- M/S, Chapter 2, p. 32-71
- M/S, Chapter 4, p. 113-123
Thursday, January 28
- Gladwell, M. (1997, March 17). The Coolhunt. New Yorker, 78-88. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
- Watch: Generation Like (2014)
Week 4: Ideology & Authenticity
Tuesday, February 2
- M/S, Chapter 5, p. 152-166
Thursday, February 4
- Watch: Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
- Short Essay 1 Due
Week 5: Ideology on the Screen
Tuesday, February 9
- M/S, Chapter 5, p. 166-170
- Watch: Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Thursday, February 11
- M/S, Chapter 5, p. 170-175
- Watch: CSI (episode tba)
Week 6: Advertising, Consumer Culture, and the American Dream
Tuesday, February 16
- Watch: Brand New You (2014)
Thursday, February 18
- M/S, Chapter 5, p. 178-185
Week 7: Gender, Class, and Sport
Tuesday, February 23
- Kimmel, M. S. (2011). Masculinity as homophobia: Fear, shame, and silence in the construction of gender identity (T. E. Ore, Ed.). In The social construction of difference and inequality: Race, class, gender, and sexuality (5th ed., pp. 134-151). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. [Readings Tab]
- Messner, M. A., Dunbar, M., & Hunt, D. (2000). The Televised Sports Manhood Formula. Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 24(4), 380-394. doi:10.1177/0193723500244006 [Readings Tab]
Thursday, February 25
- Watch: Guyland: Where Boys Become Men (2015)
- Short Essay 2 Due
Week 8: Rap, Ideology, and Cultural Appropriation
Tuesday, March 1
- M/S, Chapter 5, p. 175-178
- Sellen, E. (2012). Missy `Misdemeanor’ Elliott: Rapping on the frontiers of female identity. In M. Kearney (Ed.), The Gender and Media Reader (pp. 319-328). New York & London: Routledge. [Readings tab]
Thursday, March 3
- Clifton, D. (2014, July 3). How to talk to white people about Iggy Azalea. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
- Phillips, N. (2015, September 01). Modern Blackface: The Cultural Appropriation of Rap. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
- Barisch, J. (2014, January 30). In Defense Of The Great Grammy Heist: Why Hip-Hop Isn’t Dead Because Macklemore And Ryan Lewis Won. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
- McWhorter, J. (2014, July 15). You Can’t `Steal’ a Culture: In Defense of CulturalAppropriation. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
- Media Fast Due
Week 9: Spring Break – No Class
Week 10: Race, Racism, and Media Framing
Tuesday, March 15
- M/S, Chapter 6, p. 186-205
- Hall, S. (2011). The whites of their eyes: Racist ideologies and the media. In G. Dinez & J. M. Humez (Eds.), Gender, race, and class in media: A critical reader (3rd ed., pp. 81-84). Sage. [Readings tab]
Thursday, March 17
- No class (I will be at a conference).
Week 11: Race, Racism, and White Privilege
Tuesday, March 22
- Watch: Central Park Five (2012)
- Davidson, A. (2014, June 23). Donald Trump and the Central Park Five. New Yorker. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
Thursday, March 24
- Cooper, B. (2014, May 27). White guy killer syndrome: Elliot Rodger’s deadly, privileged rage.
- Holley, P. (2015, November 27). Did `whiteness’ save the life of the alleged Planned Parenthood shooter?
Week 12: LGBTQ Representation and “Modern Family Fun”
Tuesday, March 29:
- M/S, Chapter 6, p. 217-222
- Watch: Gays on TV: From National Freakout to Modern Family Fun
Thursday, March 31
- How Modern Is Modern Family?
- Is “Modern Family” Still Modern?
- Black-ish is the New Modern Family
- Watch: Modern Family, black-ish
Week 13: The Politics of Media Influence
Tuesday, April 5
- M/S, Chapter 7, p. 224-248
- Campus Participation Due
Thursday, April 7
- Grossberg, L., Wartella, E., & Whitney, D. C. (1998). Media and Behavior. In Mediamaking: Mass media in a popular culture (pp. 293-335). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [Readings tab]
Week 14: Social Context of Media Use
Tuesday, April 12
- Watch: Joystick Warriors (2013)
Thursday, April 14
- M/S, Chapter 8, p. 260-293
Week 15: Audiences & Ratings
Tuesday, April 19
- Caputi, J. (2011). The pornography of everyday life. In G. Dinez & J. M. Humez (Eds.), Gender, race, and class in media: A critical reader (3rd ed., pp. 311-320). Sage. [Readings tab]
- Boyle, K. (2011). `That’s So Fun’: Selling pornography for men to women in The Girls Next Door. In G. Dinez & J. M. Humez (Eds.), Gender, race, and class in media: A critical reader (3rd ed., pp. 293-300). Sage. [Readings tab]
Thursday, April 21
- M/S, Chapter 3, p. 91-112
- Watch: This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
- Short Paper 3 Due