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Assignments
Study Guides
Ch 1- Overview
Ch 3- Sound Recording
Ch 4- Radio
Ch 5- Television
Ch 6- Cable
Ch 7- Movies
Ch 8- Newspapers
Ch 9- Magazines
Ch 10- Books
Ch 11- Advertising
Ch 13- Media Economics
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Chapter 1- Overview
Media Facts
- AVERAGE AMERICAN watches 4 hours of television per day
- Children spend an average of 4 hours ad 40 minutes in front of a screen (2 1/2hr television)
- American child sees 200,000 violent acts on TV by age 18
- Average American youth spend 900 hours in school and 1,023 hours watching TV each year.
- 56% of children between ages 8-16 have a TV in their bedrooms
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Class Discussion Links
Session #1-Introduction
- Welcome to Mass Comm Class- In class activity
- Does the media influence you? Click and identify as many of these symbols as you can. You might be surprised!!!
Session #2-Green Day's "American Idiot"
- In class Critical Thinking Activity #1
- You Tube- Link to Green Day- American Idiot Video
Session #3-Communications Act and Gatekeepers
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Linear Model of Communicaitons
Session #4- High and Low Culture
Class Notes on Culture
- High Culture
- Low Culture
- Big Mac Theory
- Post-Modern in Everyday Life
Session #5- Who owns the Media
Roles of Media in Culture Handout
- What is a corporation?
- Economics of Scale
- Libertarianism Theory
- Social Responsiblity Theory
Session #6- Outfoxed: Rupert Murdock's War on Journalism Film
First Amendment Handbook
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