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Sociology 280: Mass Media and Culture

 

Readings & Sites to See

Absence sheet

Readings Packet

Contact

last updated: January 4, 2009
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Mass Media Issues

Readings and  Sites to See
*Required material

INTRODUCTIONS

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*Esslin, Drama as Communication 
History of mass media
Many mass media articles
Trust in others, trust in institutions
Doc.: CENTURY OF THE  SELF-Happiness Machines
Lots more mass media links

MASS MEDIA'S AUDIENCE

"college students watch an average of 3 hours and 41 minutes of TV each day...about an hour less than the amount of time an average American spends watching TV each day." Associated Press, 3-18-05

 *LE BON : Psychology of the Crowd

Americans Use Media Far More Than They  Realize
Kipling, "If"

Measuring Media Consumption

ADVERTISING
 
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Advertising

W&W, "Panic Ads"

Big Brother isn't Watching You...Unfortunately

Fraim, "Friendly Persuasion: The Growing Ubiquity of Advertising, or What Happens When Everyone Becomes an Ad?"

The Many Fronts of the Media War

*Crossan, Women and Smoking

Sell! Buy! Semiolinguistic Manipulation In Print Ads

Emergence of Advertising in America

No Kidding about Ads

Kids Ads - a critical view
Merchants of Cool

Advertising History

Timeline for advertising history

History of Coke ads

Subliminal advertising

PRINT MEDIA

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 Pre-Print books (gorgeous)

*Thompson,"Turning the Page"

The Opposite of Mass-Media

18th and 19th Century journals

Electronic Journals and Magazines

Loads of links to magazines Magazine stand

Comic Books
War Against Comics
Censorship of Comics
Evolution of comics

Wolff: Checkout Clout (on 'US Weekly')

Magazines  - history

Music Journals and Magazines etc.

 MOVIES

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See Birth of A Nation 

Listen or read about music for silent movies

Silent Movies

Box office data for movies

See silent movies: Great Train Robbery

History of Movie Studios


Wizard of Oz

A History of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Before the 1930 Movie

About The Wizard of Oz

Comparing the Wizard of Oz & Star Wars

TELEVISION
 
tv viewing  

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History of TV:

Top-rated TV of 1950s
Television History - The First 75 Years
History of the laugh track

TV in general

Average person watches 4 hours of TV/ day
Estimated U.S. TV Sets and Stations

D.Stevens,"Thinking Outside the Idiot Box Does watching TV make you smarter?"

 

Leno and Letterman jokes
Late Night Joke Archives
Leno and Letterman monologues
Letterman's monologues


Animated Sitcom: The Simpsons

Shorto, "Homer's Odyssey"

*Owen, Taking Humor Seriously"

Interview with Matt Groening

Directory of Simpsonia

Comic Book Store Guy
Good piece on the Simpsons
Most every Simpsons' Couch Gag
Simpson's Comic Book Store Guy

*Dance, "Babies and Videos"

Cartoons influence on kids' TV

Reality TV /  TV is Reality:

*K.Howley,"Reading Survivor"

*H. Forsythe, "Celebrities and 'Real' People: 

               Contrivance and Authenticity on Survivor"

*F. Prose, "Voting Democracy of the Island"

K. Goldie, "A New Spin on the Corporate Jungle: Survivor"

B. Yesil, "Reel Pleasures:  Roots of Media Voyeurism and Exhibitionism

Reality Island: Overcrowded

Song ("Survivor")   you must be over 21 to read this 

The Osbournes - Episode Guide

MUSIC'S MEDIA

 

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Radio

History of Recording Technology

Early Radio

Radio in 1930s

Radio Histories

Old time radio shows from '30s-'50s

Chronology of AM Radio Broadcasting 1900-1960

Music

*S.Frith,"Industrialization of Popular Music"

Impact of Electric Microphones  (audio

*R.Garofalo, "From Music Publishing to MP3"

K.Moerer, "Who Killed Rock Radio?"

History of Recording Techology

How records are/were made

Music Censorship in the US

Slack, "Did Video Kill The Radio Star?"

MTV Perspectives

See how much rock gets onto TV

Brief history of rock in movies

Editorial Cartoons
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Interview with editorial cartoonist

Links to lots of editorial cartoonists

Slate's Daily Political Cartoon

Another set of editorial cartoonist links

Editorial Cartoons - worldwide links

NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS

 

Search for News:

Lexis- Nexis
Google News
Reuters
BBC

Media terror: truth squeezed between ad money & PR

W&W,  "TV News: The Triumph of Attitude

On The Media: "The Truth of False"

BUT Some sources aren't bad at all...

BBC hear and/or see

DEMOCRACY NOW  learn how to hear and/or read

ON THE MEDIA hear and/or read

Great Journalist Resource Listing

National and International Searchable News Sites

VIRTUAL REALITY

Virtual Reality

*M. Slouka"Virtual World"

 *E.M.Forster, "The Machine Stops"

South Park - The Machine Stops

History of Video Games
Video game site with reviews etc.

 

 

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