Monday, March 23, 2009

schedule

SCHEDULE
M 3/23 Introduction
*bring a news story to next class meeting

W 3/25 What is Journalism and What Does it Do?
The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
Schudson 1-63

M 3/30 The Problem of News
Schudson 64-114

W 4/1 Economics and Culture of News
Schudson 117-166

M 4/6 The People Formerly Known as the Audience: Rethinking the Public
Schudson 167-212

W 4/8 The People Formerly Known as the Audience: Rethinking the Public cont.
Jay Rosen’s The People Formerly Known as the Audience, and Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press

M 4/13 Gulf War Coverage: 1991 vs today
Orville Schell’s intro to Michael Massig’s Now They Tell Us

W 4/15 
Guest speaker Jayson Harsin The Rumor Bomb: On Convergence Culture and Politics
Jayson Harsin

M 4/20
Mainstream News Online
Mark Deuze’s Online Journalism
Check out the following sites online: CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC, New York Times, Denver Post
Jay Rosen’s Bloggers vs. Journalists is over

W 4/22 A New Watchdog: Open Source and Participatory Journalism
Project prospectus due. Brief In-class presentations
Amanda Michel's Get Off the Bus

We Media Intro., Forward, and Introduction to Participatory Journalism

Also check out:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/off-the-bus/
http://english.ohmynews.com/
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml
http://www.associatedcontent.com/
http://digg.com/
http://slashdot.org/


M 4/27 Midterm

W 4/29 The A-list
Clay Shirky's Power Laws and Weblogs

Check out:
http://www.boingboing.net/
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/
http://www.beppegrillo.it/english.php
http://www.federatedmedia.net/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
http://www.buzzmachine.com/ New New Media Landscape

M 5/4 New New Media landscape
Beckett Intro, Chapter 1, chapter 2
Review of SuperMedia

W 5/6 Networked Journalism and Politics: How Obama Won
Beckett Chapter 3
David Talbot, How Obama Really Did It! (posted to the blog)

M 5/11 Networked Journalism and the Political: The French Riots and Networked Global Media
Beckett Chapter 4

W 5/13 The Future of News
Beckett Chapter 5
New Bust; New Boom

M 5/18 Deproduction

W 5/20 Final presentations

W 5/27 Final presentations

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