Politics, Society, & the Mass Media 

​Additional slides: Ideology in media
Texts

TEXTS
Understanding Media and Culture (open source; primary text)
Communication and New Media, by Hirst et al. 

// NEW MEDIA
The New Media's Role in Politics
​News After Trump

// SYMBOLS & IDEOLOGY
Rhetorical Criticism as the Asking of Questions, by Sonja Foss 
Down with Ideology: Zizek Video
Performing Civic Identity (Iwo Jima), by Hariman and Lucaites 

// MEDIA ECOLOGY (definition)
Manufacturing Consent, by Herman & Chomsky 
The Medium is the Message, by Marshall McLuhan
Orality & Literacy, by Walter Ong
Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman

// CRITICAL STUDIES 
The Culture Industry, by Horkheimer & Adorno

// THE INTERNET + DEMOCRACY
The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr (summary)
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?, by Jean Twenge (Atlantic)
The Shattered Mirror, by the Public Policy Forum (website)
The Shattered Mirror -- 5 years on (2022), by the PPF
Post-Truth, by Evan Davis (video)
Trick Mirror, by Jia Tolentino (podcast + interview)
Digital Democracy/Tyranny of Cyberspace, by Slavoj Zizek (video)
​The App Generation, by Howard & Davis
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