Schedule

Schedule

Date	Topic (Link to Lecture)	Due in class	Supplemental Presentation Material
Section I: History of Media Culture
9.7	What is Popular Culture?	--	--
9.9	What is Popular Culture?	Excerpt from Rushkoff, Program or be Programmed, “The Bazaar”	--
9.12	Media Literacy	Free Culture excerpt (Lessig), pp. 35-40	--
9.14	Digital Culture	Invisibilia, “How to Grow a Bully”; "Affordance, Conventions and Design" (Norman)
9.16	Digital Culture	Chapter 10, "Purpose: Program or be Programmed" (Rushkoff)
9.19	Convergence & Participatory Culture	Convergence Culture Introduction (Jenkins)	--
9.21	Convergence & Participatory Culture	"The People Formerly Known as the Audience" (Rosen)	Susanna - Note To Self, “What is our Attention Worth?”
9.23	The Attention Economy	“Attention, Shoppers!” (Wired) Optional: "I Used to be a Human Being" (Sullivan)	Sam - “Is the Internet Being Ruined?” (Freakonomics Podcast)
Section II: Media Production & The Media Industry
9.26	The Contemporary Media Industry	“The Emerging Ethics of Networked Culture” (Sinnreich)	--
9.28	The Contemporary Media Industry	“What is Fair Use?” (Wu); “Was Shepard Fairey’s Use Fair?”; “Measuring Fair Use: Four Factors”
9.30	The Contemporary Media Industry	Remix Defense Assignment	Matt - “The Culture Industry Reconsidered” (Adorno)
10.3	Networked Journalism	“Blogs, Twitter, and Breaking News” (Bruns & Highfield)
10.5	Networked Journalism	"Public Sphere to Public Screen" (DeLuca)	Mallory -Introduction, Networked (Russell)
10.7	Networked Journalism	Debate Brief
10.10	Memes: Ideas that Spread	“Mind Over Matter” (Stapleton);	Jon - “Nike Sweatshop Email” Essay (Peretti)
10.12	Memes: Ideas that Spread	Meme Lineage Report
10.14	Media Workshop - Culture Jamming	Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping the Empire of Signs (Dery)	--
Section III: Critical Approaches to Media Culture
10.17	Media Workshop, part II	Ch. 3: "Monsters, Inc.: A Critical Approach to Popular Culture" (Grazian) Class held in the Digital Design Lab in Mortvedt Library
10.19	Introduction to Criticality	Ch. 2: "Marxist Analysis" (Ott & Mack) 2nd half of Meme Reports	Margot - From Society of the Spectacle to Society of Machinery: Mutations in Popular Culture 1960s-2000s
10.21		NO CLASS	MID-SEMESTER BREAK
10.24	Introduction to Criticality	Culture Jam Project When Women Stopped Coding (NPR); Film Dialogue: from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age
10.26	Gender and Sexuality in the Media	The Beauty Myth, Introduction + "Beauty Myth" Chapter (pp. 1-19) (Wolf)	Elissa - “What are Gender Barriers Made of?” (Freakonomics Podcast)
10.28	Sexuality in the Media & Queer Analysis	Ott & Mack Ch. 9, Queer Analysis
10.31	Intersectionality and Media Representations	“Strong Black Woman” (Wyatt)	Monica - Ellen, Television, and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Visibility (Dow)
11.2	Race, Ethnicity, Nationality & Religion	Electronic Empire (Höglund)	Josh - Show/Down Time (Nakayama)
11.4	Race, Ethnicity, Nationality & Religion	Final Topic Proposal	Kaylie - “Bed Intruder Meme” article/radio story (All Tech Considered)
Section IV: Aesthetic & Rhetorical Devices of Entertainment Media
11.7	The Script: Dialogue & Narrative	Quiz - Sections II & III	Lexi - “The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the Meaning of Life” (Matheson)
11.9	NO CLASS	WORK DAY - work on your Media Analysis Paper
11.11	NO CLASS	WORK DAY - work on your Media Analysis Paper
11.14	The Cut: Framing & Film	Ch. 7: "Psychoanalytic Analysis" (Ott & Mack)	Christine - “Ways of Seeing in American Beauty” (Boeck)
11.16	The Score: Music and Affect	“The Illusion of Life” (Sellnow)	Tim - Feeling, Emotion, Affect (Shouse)
11.18	The Score: Music and Affect	Media Analysis Paper
Part V: Activist Media
11.21	NO CLASS
11.23	NO CLASS
11.25	NO CLASS
11.28	Activist Strategies	“The Politics of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’” (Kreiger)	Colten - “Seven Stories from the ‘It Gets Better’ Project” (Yep, Olzman & Conkle)
11.30	Artivism	Hip-Hop Politics, Activism, and the Future of Hip-Hop (Gosa) & Hip Hop as Methodology: Ways of Knowing (Marsh)	Adam - Performance Constellations: Memory and Event in Digitally Enabled Protests in the Americas (Fuentes)
12.2	Media Workshop	Final Project Proposal
12.5	Work Day
12.7	Work Day
12.9	Work Day
12.12 (11am - 12:50pm)	Final Project Due; Final Presentations