Critical perspectives on media and society.

Texts:
Part I. THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO CRITICAL STUDY
1. McQuail: Reflections on Uses and Gratifications Research ;
2. Carey: Communications and the Progessives ;
3. Schudson: The New Validation of Popular Culture: Sense and
sentiment in Academie ;
4. Newcomb: On the Dialogic Aspects of Mass Communication ;
5. Stuart Hall: Signification, Representation, Ideology:
Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates ;
6. Long: Feminism and Cultural Studies ;
7. Grossberg: Strategies of Marxist Cultural Interpretation ;
PART II. TH APPLICATION OF CRITICAL APPROACHES
8. Horwitz: For Whom the Bell Tolls: Causes and consequences of
the AT&T Divestiture ;
9. Glasser / Ettema: Investigative Journalism and the Moral Order ;
10. Birkhead: An Ethics of Vision for Journalism ;
11. Deming: Hill Street Blues as Narrative ;
12. Campbell: Securing the Middle Ground: reporter Formulas in
60 Minutes ;
13. Gray: Television, Black Americans, and the American Dream ;
14. Barkin / Gurevitch: Out of Work and On the Air: television
News of Unemployment ;
15. Steiner: Oppositional Decoding as an Act of Resistance ;
16. Fiske: Television: Polysemy and Popularity ;
17. Condit: The Rhetorical Limits of Polysemy ;
18. Spigel: The Domestic Economy of Television. Viewing in
Postwar America.
Index.