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SCHEDULE OF
LECTURES AND READINGS
Fall Semester, 2004
Part One:
Introduction
Week 1
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Review: Viewing the Media in Anthropology and Sociology
Mon. 13 Sept. & Weds. 15 Sept.
ADORNO, Theodor, and HORKHEIMER, Max. “The Culture Industry:
Enlightenment as Mass Deception”. Available at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010123225800/http://pnarae.com/phil/main_phil/total/adorno1.htm
CHANDLER, Daniel. “Marxist Media Theory”. Available at:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/marxism/marxism.html
Note: whenever you cannot access
an article through the link provided, go to
web.archive.org and enter the old
URL (i.e., http://www.xxx.com) into the "Wayback Machine". You will see an
archive of all copies made of the article--for consistency, please choose
the oldest available copy to read in each case.
Week 2
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Introduction to Anthropology of Media: what is an anthropological
approach to media?
Mon. 20 Sept. & Weds. 22 Sept.
Ch. 2 What are Media?, 32-58. In FLERAS, Augie. Mass Media
Communication in Canada. Scarborough, Ont: Thomson Nelson, 2003. [ON
RESERVE]
Introduction: Kelly Askew and Richard R. Wilk.
1-14. In ASKEW, Kelly, and WILK, Richard R. The Anthropology of
Media: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. [ON RESERVE]
Week 3
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Anthropology and Media: A history
Mon. 27 Sept. & Weds. 29 Sept.
“Introduction”. In GINSBURG, Faye D.; ABU-LUGHOD, Lila; and, LARKIN,
Brian. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2002. [ON RESERVE].
Week 4
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Major Debates in Studies of Media and Culture
Mon. 4 Oct. & Weds. 6 Oct.
Ch. 1.
The Medium is the Message:
Marshall McLuhan. 18-26. In
ASKEW, Kelly, and WILK, Richard R. The Anthropology of Media: A Reader.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. [ON RESERVE]. Also available at:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/Content_store/Sample_chapter/0631220933/001.pdf
Ch. 2.
The Technology and the Society:
Raymond Williams. 27-40. In ASKEW, Kelly, and WILK, Richard R.
The Anthropology of Media: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. [ON
RESERVE]
Film:
Oh What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me
Part Two:
Ethnographic Approaches to Media Studies
Week 5
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Ethnography of the Media, I: Re-Encountering Ethnography
Mon. 11 Oct. (Thanksgiving, Closed) & Weds. 13 Oct.
Introduction: what is ethnography? 1-16.
In MACHIN, David. Ethnographic Research for Media
Studies. London: Hodder Arnold, 2002. [Bookstore]
Ethnography in
anthropology: from magic to the media, 17-32. In MACHIN,
David. Ethnographic Research for Media Studies. London: Hodder
Arnold, 2002. [Bookstore]
Ch. 15.
Carrying out an
ethnographic study, 165-170. In MACHIN, David.
Ethnographic Research for Media Studies. London: Hodder Arnold, 2002.
[Bookstore]
Week 6
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Ethnography of the Media, II: Approaching Research
Mon. 18 Oct. & Weds. 20 Oct.
Ch.
4.
Research approaches to the mass media, 66-80.
In MACHIN, David. Ethnographic Research for Media
Studies. London: Hodder Arnold, 2002. [Bookstore]
Ch. 5, Developing a Research Question, 73-86. In PRIEST, Susanna Hornig.
Doing Media Research: An Introduction. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage
Publications, 1996. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 7, Interpreting: Introducing Qualitative Methods, 103-118. In PRIEST,
Susanna Hornig. Doing Media Research: An Introduction. Thousand
Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1996. [ON RESERVE]
AAA. Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association,
approved June 1998. Available at:
http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ethcode.htm
Week 7
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Ethnography of the Media, III: Audience Research
Mon. 25 Oct. & Weds. 27 Oct.
Ch. 1, Approaching media audiences, 3-25. In SCHRODER, Kim; DROTNER,
Kirsten; KLINE, Steve; MURRAY, Catherine. Researching Audiences.
2003. Abingdon, Oxon: Hodder Arnold. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 2, Living Fieldwork--Writing Ethnography, 48-75. In
GILLESPIE, Marie. 1995. Television, Ethnicity
and Cultural Change. London: Routledge. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 5, Audiences, Identity and Television Talk, 108-140. In BARKER,
Chris. Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities.
Buckingham, U.K.; Philadelphia, Pa.: Open University Press, 1999. [ON
RESERVE]
Week 8
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Ethnography of the Media, IV: Research Across Mass Media
Mon. 1 Nov. & Weds. 3 Nov.
Ch.
7.
Watching television in the home, 99-102. In
MACHIN, David. Ethnographic Research for Media Studies.
London: Hodder Arnold, 2002. [Bookstore]
Ch. 9.
Why we watch
soaps, 108-113. In MACHIN, David. Ethnographic Research
for Media Studies. London: Hodder Arnold, 2002. [Bookstore]
Ch. 10.
Adoring film
stars, 114-122. In MACHIN, David. Ethnographic Research
for Media Studies. London: Hodder Arnold, 2002. [Bookstore]
Week 9
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Ethnography of New Media, I: Internet Research
Mon. 8 Nov. & Weds. 10 Nov.
Ch.
11.
Using the Internet, 123-130. In
MACHIN, David. Ethnographic Research for Media Studies. London:
Hodder Arnold, 2002. [Bookstore]
Ch. 3. Doing Ethnography in Cyberspace, 37-66. In HAKKEN, David.
Cyborgs@Cyberspace: An Ethnographer Looks to the Future. London:
Routledge, 1999. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 3, The Virtual Objects of Ethnography, pp. 41-66. In HINE, Christine.
Virtual Ethnography. London: Sage, 2000 [ON RESERVE]
Week 10
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Ethnography of New Media, II: Internet Research
Mon. 15 Nov. & Weds. 17 Nov.
MANN, Chris, and STEWART, Fiona. Internet Communication and
Qualitative Research: A Handbook for Researching Online. London: Sage,
2000. Ch. 4, “Introducing Online Methods”, 65-98 [ON RESERVE]
"Studying
the Net: Intricacies and Issues", by Steve Jones. In JONES, Steve (ed).
Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the
Net. London: Sage, 1999. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 1, Conclusions, 1-26. In MILLER, Daniel, and SLATER, Don. The
Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Oxford: Berg, 2000. [Bookstore]
Part Three:
Decoding Media Messages
Week 11
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Interpreting Documents
Mon. 22 Nov. & Weds. 29 Nov.
Ch. 2. Ethnographic document analysis. In ALTHEIDE, David L. Qualitative
Media Analysis. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996. [ON RESERVE]
HANKS, W. F. “Text and Textuality”. Annual Review of
Anthropology, Vol. 18. (1989), pp. 95-127. Stable URL (this URL may
not work from a non-library location--if so, go to this link,
http://uccb-elearning.uccb.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.jstor.org,
login, and do a search for the article title):
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0084-6570%281989%292%3A18%3C95%3ATAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
Week 12
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Signs, Systems and Semiotics
Mon. 29 Nov. & Weds. 1 Dec.
Ch. 4. Semiotics, Signs, Codes
and Cultures, 99-127. In GRIPSRUD, Jostein. Understanding Media Culture.
2002. Abingdon, Oxon: Hodder Arnold. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 2, Signs and Systems, 29-47. In THWAITES, Tony; DAVIS, Lloyd; and,
MULES, Warwick. Introducing Cultural and Media Studies: A Semiotic
Approach. New York: Palgrave, 2002. [ON RESERVE]
EXAMINATIONS: 6-17 December [return to
top]
Winter Semester, 2005
Part Four:
Media Overviews
Week 1
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Television Culture
Mon. 3 Jan. (Closed, classes begin on 4 Jan) & Weds. 5 Jan.
Ch. 9, Television’s Social Impact, 134-152. In KOTTAK, Conrad
Phillip. Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television
and Culture. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1990. [ON
RESERVE]
Shaheen, J.G. Television programming in selected Middle East nations. In
LENT, John A., ed. Case Studies of Mass Media in the Third World.
Williamsburg, Va. : Dept. of Anthropology, College of William and Mary,
1980. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 1 - TAKING SOAP OPERA SERIOUSLY: The World of Guiding Light. In
INTINTOLI, Michael James. Taking Soaps Seriously: The WorId of
GUIDING LIGHT. New York: Praeger, 1984. Available at:
http://nimbus.temple.edu/~jruby/wava/soaps/chap1.html
Chapter Five: Conclusions. In
MICHAELS, Eric. TV Tribes. PhD Dissertation presented to the
Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin, 1982.
Available at:
http://nimbus.temple.edu/~jruby/wava/eric/chap5.html
Week 2
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Film and Photography
Mon. 10 Jan. & Weds. 12 Jan.
Ch. 14. "And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian": The Bombay Film
Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood, 281-300. In GINSBURG, Faye
D.; ABU-LUGHOD, Lila; and, LARKIN, Brian. Media Worlds: Anthropology on
New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. [ON
RESERVE]
Ch. 15.
The Tongan Tradition of Going to the
Movies: Elizabeth Hahn. 258-269. In ASKEW,
Kelly, and WILK, Richard R. The Anthropology of Media: A Reader.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. [ON RESERVE]
Week 3
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The Internet
Mon. 17 Jan. & Weds. 19 Jan.
CASTELLS, Manuel. The Rise of the Network Society. 2nd
ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Ch. 5, “The Culture of Real Virtuality: the
Integration of Electronic Communications, the End of the Mass Audience,
and the Rise of Interactive Networks”, pp. 355-406. [ON RESERVE]
JONES, Steve G. “The Internet and its Social Landscape”. In Steve G. Jones
(ed), Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety,
Pp. 7-35. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. [ON RESERVE]
BELL, David. An Introduction to
Cybercultures. London: Routledge, 2001. Ch. 6, “Identities in
Cyberculture”, 113-136. [ON RESERVE]
Film:
Avatara
Part Five:
Mediations
Week 4
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Colonialism and the Media
Mon. 24 Jan. & Weds. 26 Jan.
Ch. 8.
The Imperial Imaginary:
Ella Shohat and Robert Stam. 117-147. In ASKEW, Kelly, and WILK,
Richard R. The Anthropology of Media: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell,
2002. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 2. Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies,
Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America, 58-74, Harald E.L.
Prins. In GINSBURG, Faye D.; ABU-LUGHOD, Lila; and, LARKIN, Brian. Media
Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2002. [ON RESERVE]
Week 5
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Globalization, Localization and the Media
Mon. 31 Jan. & Weds. 2 Feb.
Ch. 20.
The Global and the Local in International
Communications: Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi. 337-356.
In ASKEW, Kelly, and WILK, Richard R. The Anthropology of Media:
A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 2, Global Television and Global Culture, 33-59. In BARKER, Chris.
Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities. Buckingham, U.K.;
Philadelphia, Pa. : Open University Press, 1999. [ON RESERVE]
STRATTON, Jon.
“Cyberspace and the Globalization of Culture”. In David Bell and Barbare
M. Kennedy (eds), The Cybercultures Reader, Pp. 721-731. London:
Routledge, 2000. [ON RESERVE]
Film: National Film Board of Canada. Media and Society,
1989: Vol. 3. Cultural Sovereignty, Shaping Information.
Week 6
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Nationalism and the Media
Mon. 7 Feb. & Weds. 9 Feb.
MANKEKAR, Purnima. “National Texts and Gendered
Lives: An Ethnography of Television Viewers in a North Indian City”.
American Ethnologist, Vol. 20, No. 3. (Aug., 1993), pp. 543-563.
Stable URL (this URL may not work from a non-library location--if so, go
to this link,
http://uccb-elearning.uccb.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.jstor.org,
login, and do a search for the article title):
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199308%2920%3A3%3C543%3ANTAGLA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
Ch. 4, Being Trini and Representing Trinidad, 85-116. MILLER,
Daniel, and SLATER, Don. The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach.
Oxford: Berg, 2000.
BARWELL, Graham, and BOWLES, Kate. “Border
Crossings: The Internet and the Dislocation of Citizenship”. In David Bell
and Barbara M. Kennedy (eds), The Cybercultures Reader, Pp.702-711.
London: Routledge, 2000. [ON RESERVE]
Week 7
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Mon. 14 Feb. (Reading Week - Closed)
Weds. 16 Feb. (Reading Week - Closed)
Week 8
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Indigenous Peoples and the Media: Media Representations of Indigenous
Peoples
Mon. 21 Feb. & Weds. 23 Feb.
Ch. 1. Southern Exposure: Portrayals of
the North, 13-35. In ALIA,
Valerie. Un/Covering the North: News, Media and Aboriginal
People. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999. [ON RESERVE]
Knudson, J. Treatment of the Indian in the Bolivian press. In LENT, John
A., ed. Case Studies of Mass Media in the Third World.
Williamsburg, Va.: Dept. of Anthropology, College of William and Mary,
1980. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 1, Indians, Images, and the News Media. In WESTON, Mary Ann. Native
Americans in the News: Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. [ON RESERVE]
Film: Kayapo—Out of the Rain Forest.
Week 9
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Indigenous Peoples and the Media: Representations by Indigenous
Peoples’ Media
Mon. 28 Feb. & Weds. 2 Mar.
Ch. 16. First Peoples’ Television in Canada’s North: A Case Study
of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Lorna Roth, Carleton
University, 295-310. In ATTALLAH, Paul, and SHADE, Leslie Regan, eds.
Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication. Scarborough, Ont:
Thomson Nelson, 2002. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 2, Arrow with Voices: Evolution of Native Stations, 15-26. In KEITH,
Michael C. Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America.
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 5, Waves for Kekewh: Impact of Indigenous Broadcasting, 97-112. In
KEITH, Michael C. Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America.
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 3. Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous
Video: General Points and Kayapo Examples, 75-89, Terence Turner. In
GINSBURG, Faye D.; ABU-LUGHOD, Lila; and, LARKIN, Brian. Media Worlds:
Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2002. [ON RESERVE]
Week 10
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Indigenous Peoples and the Media: IndigeNets
Mon. 7 Mar. & Weds. 9 Mar.
Ch. 2, (Re)producing the Arctic in Cyberspace, 45-66. In
CHRISTENSEN, Neil Blair. Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline
Identities Online. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003. [ON
RESERVE]
POSTER, Mark. “Virtual Ethnicity: Tribal Identity in an
Age of Global Communications”. In Steven G. Jones (ed), Cybersociety
2.0: Revisiting Computer-Mediated Communication and Community, Pp.
184-211. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. [ON RESERVE]
“Use of Internet Communication Among the Sami People”, in
CULTURAL SURVIVAL QUARTERLY. 1998. Available online at:
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/csq_article.cfm?id=275D3844-625B-417D-8027-822607C60A05®ion_id=3&subregion_id=115&issue_id=19
“Standing Stones in Cyberspace: The Oneida Indian Nation's Territory on
the Web”, in CULTURAL SURVIVAL QUARTERLY. 1998.
Available online at:
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/csq_article.cfm?id=15B77874-2A64-45B1-AD6C-1ACC7097BEF4®ion_id=4&subregion_id=181&issue_id=19
Week 11
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Race, Ethnicity and the Media
Mon. 14 Mar. & Weds. 16 Mar.
Ch. 2. The Media and Racism. In FLERAS, Augie, and LOCK KUNZ, Jean.
Media and Minorities: Representing Diversity in a Multicultural Canada.
Toronto: Thompson Educational Pub., 2001. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 8. Miscasting Minorities: Patterns and Causes. In FLERAS, Augie, and
LOCK KUNZ, Jean. Media and Minorities: Representing Diversity in a
Multicultural Canada. Toronto: Thompson Educational Pub., 2001. [ON
RESERVE]
Ch. 1. Cybertyping and The
Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction, 1-30. NAKAMURA, Lisa.
Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. London:
Routledge, 2002. [ON RESERVE]
MILKIE, Melissa A. “Social Comparisons, Reflected
Appraisals, and Mass Media: The Impact of Pervasive Beauty Images on Black
and White Girls' Self-Concepts”. Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol.
62, No. 2, Special Issue: Qualitative Contributions to Social Psychology.
(Jun., 1999), pp. 190-210. Stable URL (this URL may not work from a
non-library location--if so, go to this link,
http://uccb-elearning.uccb.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.jstor.org,
login, and do a search for the article title):
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0190-2725%28199906%2962%3A2%3C190%3ASCRAAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y
Week 12
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Gender and the Media
Mon. 21 Mar. & Weds. 23 Mar.
Ch. 19.
Image-Based Culture: Advertising and
Popular Culture: Sut Jhally. 327-336. In ASKEW,
Kelly, and WILK, Richard R. The Anthropology of Media: A Reader.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 4, Sexed Subjects and Gendered Representations, 86-107. In BARKER,
Chris. Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities.
Buckingham, U.K.; Philadelphia, Pa. : Open University Press, 1999. [ON
RESERVE]
Film: Dream Worlds
II
Week 13
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CONCLUSION
Mon. 28 Mar. (Easter Monday - Closed)
Weds. 30 Mar. (no readings due for this week; final research
proposals due at the start of class) |