North American Media
Objectives
a) To identify tendencies, roles and dynamics in key moments of the history of American media;
b) To contextualize the contribution of the writen /eletronic press in the American national dialogue on the major social and political issues of US history;
c) To contextualize and read critically a selection of journalistic texts;
d)To research and organize, under supervision, a short critical essay centered on a theme of the syllabus (a historical moment, a specific media outlet, the work of an individual journalist), to be presented orally.
General characterization
Code
01101188
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Teresa Raquel Nunes Pereira
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
Castleman, Harry and Walter J. Podrazik , Watching TV: Eight Decades of American Television, (Third Edition), Syracuse; Syracuse University Press, 2016
Carroll, Fred, Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017
Daly,Christopher B., Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism (revised and Expanded edition), Boston: University of Massahussets Press 2018
Dubbs, Chris and Judy Woodruff, An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I. Lincoln: Potomac Books/University of Nebrasca Press, 2020
Evensen, Bruce J. Journalism and the American Experience. New York: Routledge 2018
Gorton, Stephanie, Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America. New York: Ecco/Haper Collins, 2020
Katz, James E. and Kate K. Mays (eds) Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019
Teaching method
Theoretical introductory exposition of the basic problematics of the syllabus, as contextualization of the primary sources under analysis, followed by student centered group discussions of those primary sources
Evaluation method
Continuous Assessment - Oral presentation of short research essay(40%), Writing of short essays in exam form(60%)
Subject matter
I The emergence of a North-American Press
a)Colonial press
b) Journalism and revolution
c) The Press of the new Republic
II Consolidation and profissionalization
a) Penny papers and popular journalism
b) Reporting the Civil War
c) Muckraker journalism
III The era of electronic media
a) Radio and the reporting of WWII
b) The pioneers of TV Journalism
c) Vietnam and the media
d) The "new journalism"” e) Digital journalism
Programs
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