Media Matters - ISO: relevant essays/articles

December 26, 2016 11:15 AM

I'm coming back from a 5-year hiatus to teach Media Studies to undergrads. I am overwhelmed and find it hard to feel objective these days. Would love a kick start going into 2017. I am looking to update my Syllabus and potentially make a relevant packet of scholarly articles and essays that provoke thought and discussion to the digital natives.

Looking for texts on following topics:

-Identifying current Media Systems

-Public Relations and misleading campaigns (thinking about the pink jerseys in NFL)

-Media consolidation and corporate control

-Journalistic Documentary

-The current take on news entertainment

-Social media and fake news

-Reality television

-Need for a strong fourth estate

-Stereotypes, as well as race, ethnicity, gender in our current media

I would also appreciate suggestions for updating (or replacing) the following texts I have used in the past:

*Culture and communication: Basic Concepts - Le Roy

*Reach out and Elect Someone Neil Postman

*Steteotypes - Dyer

*All the news that fits - Cross

*With these words I can tell you anything - Lutz

*The Making of a Movement - McCheaney and Nichols

*Our Democracy is in Danger of Being Paralyzed - Moyers

*PBS Frontline's Digital Nation

posted by demonstartivepapadonous to Education (1 answer total)

This is WAY too specific of a question for this site/audience.

I'm a media production professor, which is pretty darn close but light years away from who you need.

I don't have the answer but I have a recommendation for a much better way to get answers:

1) Best practice: attend the national conference specific to your area and take notes.
2) Best cheat: google similar classes at good schools with online syllabi and take notes
posted by Murray M at 4:18 AM on January 22, 2017