Professor: David Domke

Office: Communications 102

Office Hours:

Mondays 9:00 - 10:15am; and by appointment

Office Phone: 543-2662
E-mail: domke@uw.edu

Autumn 2011

Mondays and Wednesdays , 10:30-12:20, Kane 120

Discussion/small group sessions in sections on Fridays

Syllabus

Full Syllabus (MS Word): 201-CourseSyllabus_2011.doc

Required Readings

One Course Readings Packet, available at Rams Copy Center, 4144 University Way NE.

Course Readings Schedule

Introduction to course

September 28

 

Childhood memories, syllabus, questioning the prof

  1. Orenstein, P. (2006). “What’s wrong with Cinderella?” New York Times, December 24, 9 pages.
  2. Maher, J. K., Herbst, K. C., Childs, N. M., & Finn, S. (2008). “Racial stereotypes in children’s television commercials.” Journal of Advertising Research, pp. 80-93.
  3. Reals, T. (2010). “Bert and Ernie gay? Apparently not.” CBS News, October 26, 2010, 2 pages.
  4. Williams, M. (2009). “The best viral videos of the decade.” Salon, December 26, 10 short videos at http://bit.ly/cg1EyH
  5. Slatalla, M. (2008). “I think this song is about me.” New York Times, March 27, 3 pages.
  6. Singer, N. (2011). “On campus, it’s one big commercial.” New York Times, September 10, 8 pages.
  7. Rossmeier, V. (2009). “Is the Internet melting our brains?” salon.com, September 19, 4 pages.
  8. Stephens, M. (1998). “Which communications revolution is it anyway?” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 75(1), pp. 9-13.

Week One

October 3 to 7

Mass communication, culture, and society, Part I

  1. Smith, L. K. (2002). “‘Deviance’ & discourse: How readers respond to one man’s editorial: A framing analysis of e-mails following the September 11th attacks.” Unpublished manuscript, pp. 2-33.
  2. O’Flynn, S. (2005). “Ticket to a queer planet? Communication issues affecting young lesbian and gay people.” In Talking Adolescence, A. Williams & C. Thurlow (Eds.). New York: Peter Lang, pp. 147-161.
  3. Chaffee, S. H., & Metzger, M. J. (2001). “The end of mass communication?” Mass Communication & Society, 4(4), pp. 365-379.
  4. Weldon, M. (2011). “I do know how — and why—she does it.” Chicago Tribune, September 20, 2 pages.
  5. Im, S. (2000). “About Face: How sex and race are dividing Asian Americans.” The Seattle Weekly, August 24, pp. 21-25.
  6. Durham, M. G. (1999). “Girls, media, and the negotiation of sexuality: A study of race, class, and gender in adolescent peer groups.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 76(2), pp. 193-216.

Week Two

October 10 to 14

Mass communication, culture, and society, Part II

  1. Lasn, K. (1999). Culture jam. New York: Quill, pp. 29-35.
  2. Branch, K. (2010). “I Am America.” Watch it at http://bit.ly/98WUu7
  3. BBC News. (2010). “14-year-old Manx schoolgirl is big hit in Japan.” February 10, watch at http://bbc.in/9ZG9S6
  4. Stocking, S. H., & Holstein, L. W. (2009). “Manufacturing doubt: Journalists’ roles and the construction of ignorance in a scientific controversy.” Public Understanding of Science, 18(1), pp. 23-42.
  5. Obenauf, E. (2009). “The Revenge of Print.” The Brooklyn Rail, July, 5 pages.
  6. Lohr, S. (2010). “How privacy vanishes online.” New York Times, March 16, 3 pages.
  7. Carr, N. (2008). “Is Google making us stupid?” Atlantic Monthly, July/August, 7 pages.
  8. Pew Resarch Center (2011). “Americans and text messaging.” Report issued September 19, pp. 1-14.

Week Three

October 17 to 21

Journalism in a democratic society

  1. Entman, R. (1991). “Framing U.S. coverage of international news: Contrasts in narratives of the KAL and Iran Air incidents.” Journal of Communication, 41(4), pp. 6-27.
  2. Lemann, N. (2006). “The Murrow doctrine.” The New Yorker, January 23-30, pp. 38-43.
  3. Zachary, G. P. (2006). “A journalism manifesto.” AlterNet, February 9, 2 pages.
  4. Benton, J. (2011). “Eight trends for journalism in 2011.” Nieman Journalism Lab, read at http://bit.ly/etyfW6
  5. Shirky, C. (2009). “Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable.” Shirky.com, March 13, 5 pages.
  6. Hermida, A. (2010). “Rethinking the role of the journalist in the participatory age.” MediaShift, July 9, 2 pages.
  7. Rosen, J. (2008). “If bloggers had no ethics blogging would have failed, but it didn’t. So let’s get a clue.” PRESSthink.org, September 18, 2 pages.
  8. Martin, J. (2011). “Influential Seattle blogger inflames left and right alike about Israeli security issues.” Seattle Times, September 12, 4 pages.

Week Four

October 24 to 28

Mass communication: Movies (will be on exam 2)

  1. Dawe, T. J. (2010). “What do our action movies say about us?” BeamsAndStruts.com, August 13, 9 pages.
  2. “The Godfather Wars” (2009). Vanity Fair, March, 270-283, 326-329.
  3. Berg, C. R. (1998). “Stereotyping in films in general and of the Hispanic in particular.” In Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. Media, C. E. Rodriguez (Ed). NY: Westview Press, pp. 104-120.
  4. Young, J. (2011). “Netflix/Qwikster: I guess this is good-bye.” Popwatch.com, 2 pages.
  5. Ball, S. (2009). “Hollywood, stop hazing sorority girls.” Newsweek, September 11, 3 pages.
  6. Hankin, K. (2007). “And introducing…The female director: Documentaries about women filmmakers as feminist activism.” NWSA Journal, 19(1), pp. 59-88.

Week Five

October 31 to November 4

Words and images: Radio and TV News

  1. Ahrens, F. (2001). “Don’t touch that dial: Why FM radio sucks.” The Washington Monthly, November, pp. 1-4.
  2. Jenkins, H. (2010). “The reconfigurable culture of contemporary music: An interview with Aram Sinnreich (Part One).” HenryJenkins.com, September 3, 3 pages.
  3. Bouwknegt, T. (2010). “Rwanda tribunal upholds genocide singer’s conviction.” Radio Netherlands Worldwide, March 18, 3 pages..
  4. Sass, E. (2010). “Making waves: Internet radio may threaten terrestrial drive time.” MediaDailyNews, September 20, 2 pages.
  5. Smolkin, R. (2007). “What the mainstream media can learn from Jon Stewart.” American Journalism Review, April/May, 12 pages.
  6. Martin, C. E. (2007). “After laughter, action.” Baltimore Sun, January 7, 2 pages.
  7. Boyer, P. (2011). “Bill O’Reilly’s civil war.” Newsweek/thedailybeast, September 18, 6 pages.
  8. Kerry, J. F., & Obama, B. (2007). “Why minority-owned media matters.” Boston Bay-State Banner, October 25, 2 pages.
  9. Pritchard, D., & Stonbely, S. (2007). “Racial profiling in the newsroom.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 84(2), 231-248.

Week Six

November 7 to 11 (no sections on Nov. 11)

Media for Generation M: TV Entertainment and Video games

  1. NAACP. (2008). “Out of focus: Out of sync, take 4.” NAACP Report, December, 1-40.
  2. Kardos. M. (2011). “Writing the Jersey Shore in the age of Reality TV.” www.themillions.com, September 13, 4 pages.
  3. Pile, S. (2003). “Is Big Brother the future of British government?” The Telegraph, June 8, 5 pages.
  4. Suellentrop, C. (2010). “War games.” New York Times, September 8, 6 pages.
  5. McGonigal, J. (2010). “Gaming can make a better world.” TED.com, March (20 min.). Watch it at http://bit.ly/aDmAYR
  6. Parker, J. (2009). “School of rock.” Atlantic Monthly, March, 36-38.
  7. Dee, J. (2005). “PlayStations of the Cross.” New York Times, May 1, 4 pages.

Week Seven

November 14 to 18

 

The convergent world: Internet (on exam 2)

  1. Rheingold, H. (1993). Virtual community: Homesteading on the electronic frontier. Harper Perennial: New York, (electronic version), pp. 1-37.
  2. Grossman, L. (2010). “Mark Zuckerberg—Time’s person of the year 2010.” Time, December 15, 16 pages.
  3. Ottalini, D. (2010). “Students addicted to social media - New UM study.” NewsDesk.UMD.edu, April 21, 3 pages.
  4. Silberberg, A. (2011). “Twitter nails Osama capture, death first.” Huffingtonpost.com, May 2, 2 pages.
  5. Infinite Ammo, Saltsman, A. & Flashbang Studios. (2008). “Paper Moon.” Web-based video game; play as guest at http://blurst.com/paper-moon/.
  6. Halpern, S. (2010). “The ipad revolution.” New York Review of Books, June 10, 6 pages.

Week Eight

November 21 to 25 (no sections on Friday, Nov. 25)

 

Monies: Advertising and Ownership

  1. Leiss, W., Kline, S., & Jhally, S. (1986). Social communication in advertising. New York: Methuen, pp. 149-174.
  2. Steinem, G. (1990). “Sex, lies, and advertising.” Ms. (July/August), pp. 18-28.
  3. Gapper, J. (2008). “Advertisers will see you read this.” Financial Times, August 13, 3 pages.
  4. Newman, N. (2011). “Racial and economic profiling in Google ads: A preliminary investigation.” huffingtonpost.com, September 20. Read at http://huff.to/qOCDvC
  5. McChesney, R. W. (1998). “The political economy of global communication.” In Capitalism and the information age: The political economy of the global communications revolution, R. McChesney, E. M. Wood, & J. B. Foster (Eds.). New York: Monthly Review Press, pp. 1-26.
  6. Copps, M. J. (2007). “Democracy and media.” Seattle Times, September 9, 3 pages.
  7. Fallows, J. (2003). “The age of Murdoch.” The Atlantic Monthly, September 2003, pp. 81-98 (advertising-only pages not copied).

Week Nine

November 28 to December 2

Free speech and free press

  1. Stone, G. R. (2005). “What you can’t say will hurt you.” New York Times, August 15, 2 pages.
  2. Calvert, C. (1997). “Hate speech and its harms: A communication theory perspective.” Journal of Communication, 47(1), pp. 4-19.
  3. Rainey, J. (2010). “Local TV news doesn’t share the public interest.” LA Times, March 17, 3 pages.
  4. Poniewozik, J. et al. (2005). “The decency police.” Time, March 28, 7 pages.
  5. Gillmor, D. (2010). “Who’s a journalist? Does that matter?” salon.com, August 26, 3 pages.

Week Ten

December 5 to 9

The global media village

  1. Gerbner, G. (2002). “The cultural environment movement.” In Living In the Information Age, E. P. Bucy (Ed.). Belmont, California: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, pp. 144-149.
  2. Hutcheon, D. (2002). “Mixing up the world’s beat.” Mother Jones, July/August 2002, pp. 74-75.
  3. Katayama, L. (2010). “Meet Jake Adelstein, a Jewish reporter who thinks like a Japanese gangster.” BoingBoing.net, March 9, 4 pages.
  4. Adelstein, J. & Katayama, L. (2010). “YAKUZA 3: Played, reviewed and fact-checked. With the Yakuza.” BoingBoing.net, March 9, 3 pages.
  5. Kaplan, R. (2009). “Why I love Al Jazeera.” Atlantic Monthly, October, 2 pages.
  6. Skinner, D. (2000). “McLuhan’s world—and ours.” Public Interest, volume 138, pp. 52-64.
  7. Pink, D. H. (2005). “Why the world is flat.” Wired, May, 3 pages.
  8. Gladwell, M. (2005). “Brain candy.” The New Yorker, May 16, 4 pages.