Schedule

Date	Topic (Link to Lecture)	Due in class	Watch/Listen/Read in class	Supplemental Group Presentation Material
Section I: History of Popular Culture
9.15	What is Popular Culture?	--	Excerpt from Rushkoff, Program or be Programmed, “The Bazaar”	--
9.17	Media Literacy	Free Culture excerpt (Lessig), pp. 35-40; sign/hand in syllabus	Lawrence Lessig, “Laws that Choke Creativity” TED Talk; Invisibilia, “How to Grow a Bully”; Note to Self, “Growing up Digital”	--
9.22	Convergence & Participatory Culture	Convergence Culture Introduction (Jenkins)	Clay Shirky, “Cognitive Surplus” TED Talk	--
9.24	The Attention Economy	“Attention, Shoppers!” (Wired)	Note To Self, “What is our Attention Worth?”; Clip from The Social Network, ‘It’s time to monetize the site’	--
Section II: Media Production & The Media Industry
9.29	The Contemporary Media Industry	Grazian Chapter 6	RIP: A Remix Manifesto	--
10.1	Networked Journalism	“Blogs, Twitter, and Breaking News” (Bruns & Highfield)	Lewis TED Talk; The Newsroom Boston Marathon Bombing	Guardian article on Debord’s Society of the Spectacle; Introduction, Networked (Russell)
10.6	Memes: Ideas that Spread	“Mind Over Matter” (Stapleton); Final Topic Proposal	Ohanian TED Talk	“Nike Sweatshop Email” Essay (Peretti)
10.8	Media Workshop - Culture Jamming; Meet in the Digital Media Center in the Library	Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping the Empire of Signs (Dery)	--	--
Section III: Critical Approaches to Popular Culture
10.13	Introduction to Criticality	Grazian Chapter 3	Cornel West on Youth Culture; Nas and Cornel West on Music and Culture	“The Culture Industry Reconsidered” (Adorno)
10.15	Consumption & Class	Ott & Mack, Chapter 2; Culture Jam Project
10.20	Gender in the Media	The Beauty Myth, Introduction + "Beauty Myth" Chapter (p. 1-19) (Wolf)	When Women Stopped Coding (NPR); Katz TED Talk	Paige’s Story (Invisibilia)
10.22	Sexuality in the Media & Queer Analysis	Show/Down Time (Nakayama)		--
10.27	Race, Ethnicity, Nationality & Religion	Electronic Empire (Höglund)		“Bed Intruder Meme” article/radio story (All Tech Considered)
Section IV: Aesthetic & Rhetorical Devices of Entertainment Media
10.29	The Script: Dialogue & Narrative	Ott & Mack, Chapter 5		“The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the Meaning of Life” (Matheson)
11.3	The Cut: Framing & Film	Ott & Mack, Chapter 7	“Visuals of ‘Mr. Robot’” (Vox)	“Ways of Seeing in American Beauty” (Boeck)
11.5	The Score: Music and Affect	“The Illusion of Life” (Sellnow) Media Analysis Paper		Feeling, Emotion, Affect (Shouse)
Part V: Activist Media
11.10	Activist Strategies	“The Politics of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’” (Kreiger) - Ch. 27 of Navas et. al		“Seven Stories from the ‘It Gets Better’ Project” (Yep et. al)
11.12	Media Workshop - meet in the Digital Media Center (Anderson Academic Commons)		--	--
11.17	Final Presentations	Final Presentations	--	--
11.22 (Sun., 11:59 pm)	Final Project Due	--	--	--