• The Critical Invitation
• A Social Constructivist View of Communication
• Raymond Williams Quote

Week 2 Overheads:

• Week 2 Overview
• From Language to Culture: No Fixed Meaning / One Shared Meaning
• The Idea of Culture and Media Studies
• Selected Issues In Culture and Communication
• The Critical Approach
• The Critic's Task -- Adrienne Rich
• Defining Culture
• Defining Hegemony
• Trinh T. Minh-Ha
• The Process of Hegemony
• Whorf Quote

Week 3 Overheads:

• Week 3 Overview
• Understanding the "Mass" in "Mass Communication"
• Adding Technology to Communication
• Culture Industry Thesis
• Definition of Cultural Determinism
• Definition of Technical Determinism
• Defining Technology (from Chandler)
• Merton Quote
• Technology, Media and Mediation
• T.S. Eliot Quote

Week 4 Overheads:

• Week 4 Overview
• Defining Codes
• Defining Semiotics
• Defining Signs
• Signs: Two Levels of Meaning
• Function of Signs as a Social Semiotic
• Metaphor / Metonymy
• Types of Signs
• Paddy Whannel Quote

Week 6 Overheads:

• Week 6 Overview
• Logic of the Market
• Marshall McLuhan, 1964, from "Press"
• Michel Foucault and the Police
• Media Economics, Summing Up
• The Special Conditions of the Communication Context
• Richard Campbell quote
• Market Logic: Macro Outcomes
• Market Logic: Micro Outcomes
• Ben Bagdikian quote
• Telecommunications Management
• Viacom
• Capitalism Defined

Weeks 7 & 8 Overheads:

• The First Amendment
• Stevens et al. quotes
• James Rorty quote
• Sherman Antitrust Act, from R. Reich
• Problem of property, the GAP, language/meaning
• Media History: Foundations of a Public Interest
• Hutchins' Commission Quote
• Hutchins' Commission on Sensationalism
• Hutchins' Recommendations
• Griggs and Green quotes
• Gap Kids
• The Second Tradition
• The First Amendment, in these terms (from Keane)
• Nat Hentoff Quote
• Creating a context for the First Amendment

Group 1: Media Economics

• The Special Conditions of the Communication Context
• Logic of the Market
• Market Logic and Communication: Macro Outcomes
• Market Logic and Communication: Micro Outcomes
• Summing Up Media Economics

Group 2: Pluralism / Neo-pluralism

• General Assumptions of Liberal Pluralism
• Media Assumptions of Liberal Pluralism
• General Assumptions of Neo-Pluralism
• Media Assumptions of Neo-Pluralism
• Stuart Hall on Pluralism

Group 3: Media History / Regulation

• Creating a context for the First Amendment
• Keane
• "Congress shall make no law..."
• John Griggs and William Greene
• Nat Hentoff
• Hutchins Commission Recommendations
• Hutchins Commission and Sensationalism
• Hutchins Truth and Fact
• James Rorty
• The Second Tradition: Communication as a Public Resource
• Sen. John Sherman