Media Journal Entries Due This Semester

Here is a list of all the journal entries due this semester. Please note that all entries through #9 were due before spring break. (If you are behind, your grade will be lowered, so please be sure to catch up on all missing journal entries by class on Monday, April 20th.)

Journal Entry #1:
Your responses to Ewen, All Consuming Images (ACI), “Introduction to the New Edition,” “Shoes for Thought,” and Part One, Chapter 1, “Images Without Bottom.”

Journal Entry #2:
Fahrenheit 451 (& Style Wars)

Journal Entry #3:
Frederick Douglass, “Learning to Read and Growing in Knowledge”; John Ross, “Exercises in the Restoration of History”; Jean Wheeler-Smith, “Frankie Mae.”

Journal Entry #4:
ACI, Part One, Chapters 2 and 3; Ewen and Ewen, “The Ends Justify the Jeans.”

Journal Entry #5:
Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Stereoscope and The Stereograph”; Lewis Hine, “Social Photography.”

Journal Entry #6:
Benjamin Franklin, “Continuation of the Account of my Life…,” selection from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick.

Journal Entry #7:
Alex Haley, “Saved,” selection from The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Journal Entry #8:
Hugo Münsterberg, “The Psychology of the Photoplay.”

Journal Entry #9:
Ewen and Ewen, “Immigrant Women and the Rise of the Movies."
Andrew Adam Newman, “The True Story of a Bogus Blog.” Adweek. May 5, 2008;
Michelle Jana Chan, “Identity in a Virtual World.” CNN Online, June 14, 2007;
Shannon McRae, “Coming Apart at the Seams: Sex, Text and the Virtual Body.”;
Judith Donath, “Being Real” (2000).
Extra Credit for responding to: “Identity and Body in Cyber-space” http://www.greenlloyd.com/bodyincyberspace.htm.

**Over spring break, read ACI part 4 (chapters 8, 9 and 10) and conclusion.**

Journal Entry #10 (due April 27th):
ACI part 4 and conclusion

Journal Entry #11 (due May 4th):
Selections from Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays: "Promoting 'Lucky Strike' Cigarettes to Women in the late 1920s"; "Public Opinion and the Phantom Public"; "The Engineering of Consent". Stuart Ewen, “Visiting Edward Bernays.”

Journal Entry #12 (due May 11th):
Final observations on readings, class discussions and your journaling experiences.