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COMM 140 Media Criticism

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  • 5 pages Comm 140 Synthesis 2
    • Comm 140 Synthesis 2
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Spring 2011
    • Comm. 140- Synthesis 2 Effects of the Music Industry on Identity and Technology The popular music industry has become much more about pleasing the audience and staying within boundaries than being original. The songs that become the most popular are those
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  • 19 pages Sample Papers.pdf
    • Sample Papers.pdf
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • COMM 1'40 Paper 2 ‘ LGBT RepresentatiOn and Propaganda . c _ ‘ Appearing in sitcoms, talk shows, advertisements, and reality television, membersof the LGBT community are increasingly visible in all media outlets. They are comedians, neyvs sources, and pub
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  • 4 pages comm140_suggested_steps_writing_research_paper.pdf
    • comm140_suggested_steps_writing_research_paper.pdf
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • Some Suggested Steps for Writing a Research Paper Writing a research paper is a lot of work, and it should take a long time to do. Staying up all night and writing a 10 page paper in 20 hours is a college tradition, but I don't recommend it if you are act
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  • 11 pages MCCS_writing_advice.pdf
    • MCCS_writing_advice.pdf
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • 6 What gets good marks in media, communication and cultural studies? introduction to the chapter Given that the good MCCS student has acquired effective communication skiils and assembled appropriate information, these need to be directed to the specific
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  • 30 pages week2_croteau_hoynes_media_social_world.pdf

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  • 34 pages week2_croteau_hoynes_active_audiences.pdf

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  • 42 pages week3_croteau_hoynes_economics_media_industry.pdf

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  • 3 pages week3_crogan_kinsley_scarcity_of_attention.pdf
    • week3_crogan_kinsley_scarcity_of_attention.pdf
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • The scarcity of attention www.culturemachine.net CROGAN & KINSLEY PAYING ATTENTION CM 13 2012 The abundance of information, or content (that enigmatic abstraction of message from medium), ever more available to us
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  • 8 pages week3_derakhshan_web_have_to_save.pdf
    • week3_derakhshan_web_have_to_save.pdf
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • https:/medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426 The Web We Have to Save The rich, diverse, free web that I lovedand spent years in an Iranian jail foris dying. Why is nobody stopping it? By Hossein Derakhsh
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  • 4 pages week8_zizek_cynicism_ideology.pdf
    • week8_zizek_cynicism_ideology.pdf
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • 24 THE SUBUME’E OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY his Evil, although he knows that by persisting he will be damned {or ever. Paradoxically, with his final choice of Evil, he acquires the Status of an ethical hero — that is, of someone who is guided lay firndarnental princ
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  • 2 pages COMM140_short_paper_assignments.pdf
    • COMM140_short_paper_assignments.pdf
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • COMM 140 Short paper assignments To exercise your critical faculties and engage with class material, you will be submitting three short papers over the course of the semester, each of which takes up the lectures and readings on your own terms. You wi
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  • 19 pages 140_week02b.pptx
    • 140_week02b.pptx
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • Week Two: Active Audiences Cultural forms: How the products of media technologies and organizations are structured, how their language and meanings are structured into codes. Concept albums Documentaries Epic TV shows Social software Media forms give us a
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  • 21 pages 140_week01b.pptx
    • 140_week01b.pptx
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • Week Two: What are Media? Defining media Restaurant example from last class Media are about presence: ways of seeing and talking about the world and reality p.6 Media have become the dominant social institution in contemporary society, supplanting the inf
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  • 6 pages Comm 140 Synthesis 3
    • Comm 140 Synthesis 3
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Spring 2011
    • COMM 140- Synthesis 3 Is Facebook Actually Private? Facebook is a social networking website that allows its users to connect with friends and family by communicating, sharing pictures, or joining groups. Started in 2004, it began as a site that only colle
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    • Comm 140- Synthesis 1
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Spring 2011
    • Comm. 140- Synthesis 1 The ideas that encompass political economy discuss the various aspects of media that are shaping the way the public is participating. The political economic argument suggests that the obsession with making the most profit controls t
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  • 5 pages Comm 140 Notes
    • Comm 140 Notes
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Spring 2012
    • Everything is a medium it is sending out some type of message It becomes significant when we attach some sort of meaning to it. Media is anything that remediates EX: Our desks are made from prisoners, and we dont give it that meaning because we dont know
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    Comm 140 Notes

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    • 140midterm-sp2012
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Spring 2012
    • COMM 140 MIDTERM EXAM Part One: Response Questions. Answer FOUR. 1/2 page maximum per answer, 2 pages total: 15% each, 60% total Refer to appropriate readings where these concepts are developed. Draw on examples from the readings or discussed in class, an
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  • 2 pages Comm Posts
    • Comm Posts
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Spring 2012
    • I loved your video! The videography was really good, made me feel like I was at the concert and definitely supported your point perfectly. I appreciate that you focused on an "underground" group rather than highlighting how mainstream artists use social m
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  • 4 pages NotesMidtermReview.pdf
    • NotesMidtermReview.pdf
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Spring 2014
    • Comm140:ReviewofWeeks1-8 The social-constructionist perspective on media Based on history and cultural norms of a group of people how things are supposed to be, organization of reality by a group (social process) involves language, etc. Who benefits? If
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  • 5 pages FinalReview.pdf
    • FinalReview.pdf
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Spring 2014
    • FinalReview Final exam information IN-CLASS exam this Monday, December 7th at noon. The time allotted for the final is 2.5 hours. Worth 25% of your final grade. Like the midterm: structured to have a few shorter response questions (~250-350 words), + o
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    • Comm140TECH.docx
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Spring 2014
    • - Raise to wake - Raise the phone upward light up the screen - Material betterment - Quick camera launch, makes camera ready in seconds - Sort photos by faces and places - Erase pre-installed apps - 3D touch control center - Fives used more options while
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  • 3 pages Com 140 Essay 3.docx
    • Com 140 Essay 3.docx
    • UNC
    • Media Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Spring 2015
    • WontsomeonePLEASEthinkofthechildren?MoralpanicandtheIphone http:/www.computerworld.com/article/2509878/dataprivacy/smartphoneappsisyourprivacy protected.html Techonlogyisalsobecomingasegwayforgrredofthenation. http:/www.fandm.edu/uploads/files/24010482178
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  • 29 pages week5_02_nakamura_alllooksame.pdf
    • week5_02_nakamura_alllooksame.pdf
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • 2 Alllooksame? Mediating Visual Cultures of Race on the Web During World War II, Navajo codetalkers transmitted and received radio messages in a code based on the Navajo language. This unique form of speech, a hybrid between a natural language and an arti
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  • 14 pages week7_01_warner_publics_counterpublics.pdf
    • week7_01_warner_publics_counterpublics.pdf
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • Quarterly Journal of Speech ISSN: 0033-5630 (Print) 1479-5779 (Online) Journal homepage: http:/www.tandfonline.com/loi/rqjs20 Publics and counterpublics (abbreviated version) Michael Warner To cite this article: Michael Warner (2002) Publics and counterpu
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  • 32 pages week12_donath_privacy_public_space.pdf

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  • 26 pages week13_boyd_its_complicated_chapters2-3.pdf

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  • 32 pages week15_boradkar_planned_obsolescence.pdf

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  • 6 pages week13b_notes
    • week13b_notes
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • Lunden > Boyd states that many of the privacy strategies that teens implement are intended to counter the power dynamic that emerges when parents and other adults feel as though they have the right to watch and listen. Teens have learned how to sneakily c
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  • 13 pages 140_week14b
    • 140_week14b
    • UNC
    • Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism
    • COMM 140 - Winter 2016
    • Week Fourteen: Algorithmic media Search algorithm as cultural form: 2013 United Nations Women campaign Discussion question from Jacob In the Gillespie article, it is explained that there is increasing reliance on algorithms such as on Facebook. They use a
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    Not too easy. Not too difficult.

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    Loved this class! Neil connects course objectives to relevant topics in today's world, which really heightens understanding and interest!

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    Definitely the interactive assignments he has during class!

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    3-5 hours

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    Definitely ask Neil if you have any questions about papers -- he will definitely help you out!

    • Spring 2016
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