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Semester 2 2000-2001 Dr. Ian Gordon AS7/02-29 Ph. 874 4694 |
Lecture 2
Origins of the Mass Media:
Newspapers and Magazines in America 1880-1910
Reading:
Joseph Turow, Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999), Chapters Four and Six. RBR
Holdings
Additional:
Richard Davis, The Press and American Politics: the New Mediator
(Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1996) Chapter Three. RBR
Holdings; NUS
Library Holdings
Richard Ohmann, Selling Culture: Magazines, Markets, and Class at
the Turn of the Century (New York: Verso, 1996). NUS
Library Holdings
Michael Schudson, Discovering the News: a Social History of American
Newspapers. NUS
Library Holdings
Michael Schudson, The Power of News (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1995) Chapter One. RBR
Holdings; NUS
Library Holdings
William S. Solomon and Robert W. McChesney, editors, Ruthless Criticism:
New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History (Minneapolis : University
of Minnesota Press, 1993). Chapter 5: Baldasty, G. Rise of News as a Commodity.
RBR
Holding; NUS
Library Holdings
Web Sites for early magazines:
Godey's Lady's
Book
Harper's
Making of America
(Cornell) Digital magazines
Making
of America (Michigan) Digital magazines
Links will be added to the following after
lectures:
Lecture Outline
Study Guide