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Dr. Ian Gordon | ASC | NUS | Back to AS3217 |
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Semester 2 2000-2001 A/P Ian Gordon AS7/02-29 Ph. 874 4694 |
Study Guide Five
Radio: From Invention to
Commercialization
and
How the Media Shapes Events,
Case Study Two:
The War of the Worlds
Reading:
Joseph Turow, Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999), Chapters Eight, Nine, and Ten. RBR
Holdings
Simon Callow, Orson Welles: the Road to Xanadu (London: Jonathan
Cape, 1995), Chapter Sixteen. NUS
Library Holdings
Discussion Questions:
1) Why is radio such an important part of the American media spectrum?
2) Could the reaction to "The War of the Worlds" broadcast happen these days? Why or Why Not?
3) Why is it that talk back radio influences American politics?
Please post your answers to the discussion questions to the AS3217 Forum on the IVLE page.
After completing the reading you should be able to answer the following questions.
Identification Questions:
| No questions this week. Instead students should select up to eight important terms from the reading and provide short definitions of them. |
Listening:
Hear "War of the
Worlds" again in the Media Resources Centre in the Central Library (NUS
Library Holdings).
It will be available
shortly at http://ivle.nus.edu.sg/multimedia/medialist.asp?courseid=AS3217
Self
Test 8
Self
Test 9
Self
Test 10