Mass Media and Society

Media Literacy - COM 160-001
Class Resources

Instructor: Bill Bolduc 230 Leutze, 962-7012, bolducw@uncw.edu, http://people.uncw.edu/bolducw

Current Class Documents

Media Activism, Criticism and Reform Links

Democracy Now independent news sources and media watchdog	Free Press	Media Access Project
Take Back the Media	Free Press ORGANIZATION SEARCH Links page	Center for Media Literacy
New Mexico Media Literacy Project	Media Education Foundation	Take Back the Media
Media Matters for America	Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting	Federal Communications Commission localism page
Raleigh-Durham Fight Big Media Meetup Group	Well Connected Project	Center for Public Integrity
Hear Us Now	Media Venture Collective	Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Columbia Journalism Review	Appalachian State University Media Literacy web site	FCC Localism initiative (from FCC web site)
C-SPAN	Robert McChesney media democracy lecture	Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
	Alliance for Community Media

Items below have not been updated for Fall 2006 as of yet.

WJB July 2, 2006.

On-line Readings

Updated 8/10/05

Journalism

McChesney on NOW 2005

McChesney and Nichols on NOW 2003

Wash.Post Reports on Blair Memo FP 6/13/05

TV News Needs a Makeover FP 6/13/05

Nepal Frees 53 Journalists FP 6/13/05

Nepal Journalists Arrested FP 6/13/05

Ownership

Corporate/Media

General

Tommy Lee Goes to College

Shadow Ads in Newspapers

Internet

Lobbyists lock on broadband FP 6/13/05

Free Press Fights Sessions Bill FP 6/13/05

Class Document Archives

LECTURE MATERIALS, POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOWS

Click to link to the PPT

PR PPT

Primetime Internal Memo

UNCW Branding presentation

UNCW Existing Logo Policies

ADVERTISING PPT

MEDIA LAW OVERVIEW

George Carlin's 7 Dirty Words audio

Wikipedia Summary of Carlin

CODING NOTES

Media Watchdog Research Project

Group Assignments as of Sept. 1, 4:00 p.m.

Assignment Instructions

MSWord

PDF

Large Print Version (for in-class display only)

Updated Attendance Policy - August 24, 2005

Letter Writing Assignment

Posted Monday, March 21 3:45!!

Media Letter Writing Assignment

NEW Topics NEW

Assignment is an MSWord Document

A few links to review for the assignment:

CURRENT ON-LINE ARTICLES

and REFERENCE LINKS:

Super Important News Item(s) of the Day

NPR Story on Use of Language in News & Politics 2/28/05

USA Today on Newsweek cover

Save Martha site

OJ Time cover doctored

Michael Jackson on E!

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Link to Course Syllabus

Link to eInstruction/CPS

RECENT ON-LINE ARTICLES

and REFERENCE LINKS

NOW Media Consol. chart

Frontline Conglom Chart

The Daily Show: Jeff Gannon controversy video

25-second War

Media Literacy Principles link

HUB Model Graphic

Jeff Gannon's Secret Life

Items included on Midterm Exam:

Updated - 3:00 p.m., Friday, February 18, 2005

Annual Editions: Mass Media, chapters 6, 20 and 21

CLASS NOTES PowerPoint Presentations

BASIC MODELS OF COMM

Trends Notes

Feeding the Beast Notes (ONLY INCLUDES A FEW SUMMARY POINTS)

COMMUNICATORS PowerPointz

Jan. 7 Brad and Jennifer Split (que horrible)

Jan. 11 CBS Firings 1. MSNBC Story 2. The Report 3. CBS Response

FCC documents:

FCC License Renewal Process (from FCC web site)

Related Links

NOW Media Consol. chart	NEW!!! Sedition Act of 1798
Frontline Conglom Chart	Gene Simmons (KISS) lawsuit
Media Literacy Principles link	NEW!!! Comstock Law Essay Comstock Law text

Powerpoint Presentations & Lecture Notes

PowerPoint Presentations	Lecture Notes
TRENDS PPT	NEW!!! Trends Notes
BASIC MODELS OF COMM
HUB MODEL	HUB Model Graphic
BOLDUC MODEL PPT

Final Exam Study Materials - Updated April 25, 4 p.m.

1. MSWord version of PowerPoint slides

2. Final Exam Study Guide part 2

3. Tough Guise notes

4. Beyond Killing Me Softly notes

5. Merchants of Cool notes

CODING