| Date | Topic | Reading Assignments |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 12 | Introduction: Method and Context | Philo and Miller, Cultural compliance and critical media studies |
| Jan 19 | What is History? | Startt and Sloan, Chaps. 1-3, 8
Carr, "The Historian and His Facts" Bloch, "History, Men, and Time" (Pages 24-5 included) |
| Jan 26 | History as method
Affirmative Axioms for Question-Making |
Startt and Sloan, Chaps. 4-7, 9-11
Tankel,"The Impact of The Jazz Singer on the conversion of sound" |
| Feb 2 | What is Critical Research? | Berry (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 1)
Theobald (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 2) |
| Feb 9 | Early Critical Research | Slichal (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 3)
Theobald (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 4) |
| Feb 16 | Frankfurt School | Hardt, (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 5) Adorno and Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Deception (excerpt) Adorno, Sociology of Knowledge and Its Consciousness Marcuse, Some Social Implications of Modern Technology |
| Feb 23 | Habermas and the Public Sphere | McGuigan and Allan (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 6) Habermas, Institutions of the Public Sphere Kellner, Habermas, the Public Sphere and Democracy: A Critical Intervention |
| Mar 2 | Glasgow Media Group and Critical Research in the U.K. | Eldridge (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 7) Kitzinger and Miller, excerpt from The circuit of mass communication Hoggart, Forward from Bad News |
| March 9 | Spring Vacation | |
| Mar 16 | French Critical Research | Miller (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 8)
Mattelart, Introductions to The invention of communication (1996) |
| Mar 23 | Canadian Critical Research | Babe and Winter (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 9)
Innis, The Mechanization of Knowledge |
| Mar 30 | From McLuhan to Media Ecology | Van Loom (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 10)
Williams, from Television: technology and cultural form Gumpert, from Talking tombstones |
| Apr 6 | US Critical Research | Scott and McChesney (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 11)
McChesney and Podesta, Let There Be Wi-Fi |
| Apr 13 | Latin American Critical Research | Berry (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 12) "The poorness of our television does not reflect the cultural diversity of our societies” |
| Apr 20 | Cultural Criticism | Carter (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 13) |
| Apr 27 | Research Presentations | |
| May 4 6:15-8:15 | Final Discussion | Theobald (in Berry and Thoebald, Chap 14) |