1/20 Analyzing Media Texts
- View Semiotic Analysis slide show; look over this set of definitions of semiotic concepts, and read this, this, and this advertising analyses. Start working on your semiotic analysis of an advertisement (due in Class 1/27).
1/27 Media and Modernity
- Rebecca Solnit, “Diary,” London Review of Books, August 29, 2013.
- Ferdinand Tonnies, excerpts “On Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft,” from Marcello Truzzi, Sociology: The Classic Statements, New York: Oxford University Press, 1971, pp. 145-154;
- Marshall Berman, excerpt from All That is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity, 1982 (Simon and Schuster), pp 15-36.
2/3 (Part 1) The Problem of Causality: what’s cause, what’s effect, what’s correlation, and what really matters, anyway?
- W. Lance Bennett1 & Shanto Iyengar “A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication,” Journal of Communication 58 (2008) 707–731.
- James Curran, “Capitalism and Control of the Press, 1800-1975,” Mass Communication and Society (1977): 195–230.