Critical Studies in New Media, Spring 2013 (List of Readings)

Michael Mario Albrecht

Critical Studies in New Media

Spring 2013, Eckerd College

List of Readings

Albury, Kath and Kate Crawford. “Sexting, Consent, and Young People’s Ethics: Beyond Megan’s Story.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 26.3 (2012): 463-73.

Andrejevic, Mark.  “Watching Television Without Pity:  The Productivity of Online Fans.”  Television and New Media 9.1 (2008):  24-46.

Briggs, Asa and Peter Burke. A Social History of the Media: From Guttenberg to the Internet, 2^nd Ed. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2005.

Brown, Rebecca and Melissa Gregg. “The Pedagogy of Regret: Facebook, Binge Drinking, and Young Women.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 26.3 (2012): 357-69.

Foster, Derek. “Wii’re Here for a Good Time: The Sneaky Rhetoric of Wii-Themed Parties.” The Journal of American Culture 33.1 (2010): 30-39.

Fuchs, Cynthia. “The Political Economy of Privacy on Facebook.” The Internet and Surveillance—Research Paper Series 9 (2011): 1-26.

Gershon, Ilana.  The Breakup 2.0:  Disconnecting over New Media.  Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press, 2010.

Hess, Aaron.  “Resistance Up in Smoke:  Analyzing the Limitations of Diliberation on YouTube.”  Critical Studies in Media Communication 26.5 (2009):  411-434.

Hodson, Jaigris. “When I’m Sixty-Four: Beatles Rock Band and the Commodification of Nostalgia.” Loading…The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association 6.10 (2012): 71-90.

Jenkins, Henry.  “The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence.”  The International Journal of Cultural Studies 7.1 (2004):  33-43.

Jenkins, Henry and Mark Deuze. “Editorial: Convergence Culture.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 14.1 (2008): 5-12.

Karatzogianni, Athina. “WikiLeaks Affects: Ideology, Conflict, and the Revolutionary Virtual.” Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change. Eds. Athina Karatzogianni and Adi Kuntsman. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012.

Kittler, Friedrich.  “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter.”  October 41 (1987):  101-118.

Manovich, Lev.  The Language of New Media.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press, 2002.

McLuhan, Marshall.  Understanding Media:  The Extensions of Man.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press, 1994.

Silverstone, Roger. “What’s New About New Media?” New Media & Society 1.1 (1999): 10-82.

Streeter, Thomas. The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet. New York: New York University Press, 2010.

Sturken, Marita.  “Mobilities of Time and Space:  Technologies of the Modern and the Postmodern.”  Technological Visions:  The Hopes and Fears that Shape New Technologies.  Eds. Marita Sturken, Douglas Thomas, and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 2004. 

Sturken, Marita and Douglas Thomas.  “Introduction:  Technological Visions and the Rhetoric of the New.”  Technological Visions:  The Hopes and Fears that Shape New Technologies.  Eds. Marita Sturken, Douglas Thomas, and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 2004. 

Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Googlization of Everything. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Media and Society, Spring 2013 (Readings & Viewings)

Michael Mario Albrecht

Media and Society

Spring 2013, Eckerd College

List of Readings and Viewings

Copyright Criminals. Dirs. Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod. Changing Images, 2009. Film.

“Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier.” Dir. Rachel Dretzin. Frontline 28.1, 2 February 2010. Web.

Download: The True Story of the Internet. Host John Heilemann. Oxford Scientific Film, 2008.

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio. Dir. Ken Burns. Florentine Films, 1991. Film.

Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property. Media Education Foundation, 2007.

Page One: Inside the New York Times. Dir. Andrew Rossi. Participant Media, 2011. Film.

Pavlik, John V. and Shawn McIntosh.  Converging Media:  A New Introduction to Mass Communication, 3^rd Ed.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.

PsyWar. Dir. Scott Noble. Metanoia Films, 2010.

Reel Injun. Dirs. Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, and Jeremiah Hayes. National Film Board of Canada, 2010.

Revolution OS. Dit. J.T.S. Moore. Wonderview Productions, 2001.

“Television: Window to the World.” Modern Marvels 4.4, 20 October, 1996. Creator Bruce Nash. Web.

This Film is Not Yet Rated. Dir. Kirby Dick. IFC Films, 2006.

Media Ethics, Fall 2012 (Readings & Viewings)

Michael Mario Albrecht

Media Ethics

Fall, 2012, Eckerd College

List of Readings and Viewings

Addicted to Plastic. Dir. Ian Connacher. Cyrptic Moth Productions, 2008. Film.

All the President’s Men. Dir. Alan Pakula. Warner Bros., 1976. Film.

And the Band Played On. Dir. Roger Spottiswoode. Home Box Office, 1993. Film.

Ayn Rand and the Prophesy of Atlas Shrugged. Dir. Christ Mortensen. Mad Universe, 2011. Film.

Christians, Clifford G., Mark Fackler, and John P. Ferré. Ethics for Public Communication: Defining Moments in Media History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.

Control Room. Dir. Jehane Noujaim. Noujaim Films, 2004. Film.

Cooke-Jackson, Angela and Elizabeth K. Hansen. “Appalachian Culture and Reality TV: The Ethical Dilemma of Stereotyping Others.” Journal of Mass Media Ethics 23 (2008): 183-200. Web.

Copyright Criminals. Dirs. Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod. Changing Images, 2009. Film.

Davies, Cristyn. “Proliferating Panic: Regulating Representations of Sex and Gender during the Culture Wars.” Cultural Studies Review 14.2 (2008): 83-102. Web.

Dean, John. "Presidential Power Has Crept Back: Room for Debate.” NYTimes.com, 14 June 2012. Web.

Fat Head. Dir. Tom Naughton. Vine Street Pictures, 2009. Film.

Feldstein, Mark. “Watergate Revisited.” American Journalism Review, August/September 2004. Web.

Ghate, Debi. “Celebrate Thanksgiving the Ayn Rand Way: Thank Yourself.” The Christian Science Monitor, 25 November 2009. Web.

Giroux, Henry A. “Playing the Race Card: Media Politics and the O.J. Simpson Verdict.” Art Papers 20 (1996): 14-19. Web.

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson. Dir. Alex Gibney. Magnolia Pictures, 2008. Film.

Good Night and Good Luck. Dir. George Clooney. Metropolitan, 2005. Film.

Hintz, Arne. “Challenges to Freedom of Expression in the Digital World: Lessons from WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring.” ESSACHESS. Journal for Communication Studies 5.1 (2012): 83-105.

Inside Deep Throat. Dir. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato. Imagine Entertainment, 2005. Film.

Jackson, Pamela Taylor. “News as a Contested Commodity: A Clash of Capitalist and Journalistic Imperatives.” Journal of Mass Media Ethics 24 (2009): 146-63. Web.

Luskin, Donald L. "Remembering Ayn Rand." Wall Street Journal, 14 Apr. 2011. Web.

Meddaugh, Priscilla Marie and Jack Kay. “Hate Speech or ‘Reasonable Racism?’: The Other in Stormfront.” Journal of Mass Media Ethics 24.4 (2009): 251-68. Web.

The Modern Racist Paradigm. Totalitarian TipToe, 2007. Film.

Mosser, Jason. “What’s Gonzo about Gonzo Journalism?” Literary Journalism Studies 4.1 (2012): 85-90. Web.

Osborne, Monica. “Dropping the H(olocaust) Bomb.” BINA Salon, 2011. Web.

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism. Dir. Robert Greenwald. Carolina Productions, 2004.

Parks, Lisa. “Insecure Airwaves: US Bombings of Aljazeera.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4.2 (2007): 226-31. Web.

Pump Up the Volume. Dir. Allan Moyle. New Line Cinema, 1990.

Rand, Ayn. “The Objectivist Ethics.” The Internet Classics Archive. Ayn Rand Institute, February 9, 1961. Web.

Robertson, Kristen, Lisa McNeill, James Green, and Claire Roberts. “Illegal Downloading, Ethical Concern, and Illegal Behavior.” Journal of Business Ethics 108 (2012): 215-27. Web.

Rodman, Gilbert B. and Cheyanne Vanderdonckt. "Music for Nothing or, I Want My Mp3." Cultural Studies 20.2-3 (2006): 245-61. Web.

Rokuson, Amy. “‘To Catch a Predator’ Gets Caught: Are NBC’s Television Journalists Sacrificing Media Ethics and Legal Procedures for a Chance in the Spotlight?” Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law 19.2 (2009): 511-37. Web.

Sambrook, Richard. “Delivering Trust: Impartiality and Objectivity in the Digital Age.” University of Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2012. Web.

Sheehan, Brian, James Tsao, and James Pokrywczynski. “Stop the Music!: How Advertising Can Help Stop College Students from Downloading Music Illegally.” Journal of Advertising Research 52.3 (2012): 309-21. Web.

Shipp, E.R. “O.J. and the Black Media: Neither a Typical Hero Nor a Typical Victim, He Challenges Typical Coverage.” Columbia Journalism Review 33.4 (1994): 39-41. Web.

Smith, Raymond A. and Jacob Levenson. Index on Censorship 33 (2004): 70-75. Web.

Swain, Kristen Alley. “Approaching the Quarter Century Mark: AIDS Coverage and Research Decline as Infection Spreads. Critical Studies in Media Communication 22.3 (2005): 258-62. Web.

Super Size Me. Dir. Morgan Spurlock. Studio on Hudson, 2004. Film.

Thank You for Smoking. Dir. Jason Reitman. Content Film, 2005. Film.

Thompson, Hunter S. “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved." Scanlan's Monthly, June 1970. Web.

The Truman Show Dir. Peter Weir. Paramount Pictures, 1998. Film.

Walker, Michael Wingfield. “Artistic Freedom v. Censorship: The Aftermath of the NEA’s New Funding Restrictions.” Washington University Law Review 71.3 (1993): 937-56. Web.

Walker, Neil. “Universalism and Particularism in Human Rights: Trade-Off or Productive Tension?” Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper 2012.10 (2012). Web.

“Wounded Knee ’73.” We Shall Remain. Dir. Chris Eyre and Sharon Grimberg. PBS Studio, 2009. TV Show.

Žižek, Slavoj. “Welcome to the Desert of the Real.” The Symptom 2 (2002). Web.