Reading:
Joseph Turow, Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), Second Edition. Chapters 3 and 4. You can also use the first edition but the chapters are different: 1st edition (1999)  Chapters Twenty and Twenty-One. RBR Holdings

Additional:
Mark Boal, "Overdoing IT," Brill's Content (March 8, 2001):
Maggie Cutler, "Whodunit--the Media?" The Nation (March 26, 2001): 18-20, Web version
Thomas Doherty, Teenagers and Teenpics: the Juvenilization of American movies in the 1950s (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988), Chapter Five. NUS Library Holdings
Lewis Lapham, "Notebook: Goliath," Harper's, 300 (March 2000): pp.12-16.
MTV Censors Madonna: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0103/21/update/news08.html
Amy Kiste Nyberg, "Comic Book Censorship in the United States," in John A. Lent, editor, Pulp Demons: International Dimensions of the Postwar Anti-Comics Campaign (London: Associated University Presses, 1999). NUS Library Holdings
Neil Postman,  Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Penguin Books, 1986). NUS Library Holdings
"The Searchable Soul: Privacy in the Age of Information Technology," Harper's, 300 (January 2000): pp. 57-68.

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