10. COMMUNICATION, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY
Quotes:
"As we attempt to anaylze dialogue as a human phenomenon, we discover something which is the essence of dialog itself: the word. But the word is more than just an instrument which makes dialog possible; accordingly, we must seek its constituitive elements. Within the word we find two dimensions, reflection and action, in such radical interaction that if one is sacrificed--- even in part--- the other immediately suffers. There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus to speak a true word is to transform the world."
Paolo Friere, p. 75.
10.1 Seeing is unbelieving
10.2 Dialogics: Communication as an act of freedom and responsibility
Concepts and areas of interest: TBA
Required Readings:
2. Downing, Chapter Five: "Media in the U.S. Political Economy [Reading the News]", pp. 77-94.
3. Bagdikian, Ben, "Who Owns the Media," in Extra! at http://www.econet.apc.org/fair/extra/best-of-extra/corporate-ownership.html (pp. 1-2).
4. Cohen, Jeff, "The Political Spectrum on Television", in Extra! at http://www.econet.apc.org/fair/extra/best-of-extra/tv-spectrum.html (pp. 1-3).
5. Cobb, C., Halstead, T., and Rowe, J., "If the Economy is Up, Why is America Down?" in Atlantic Monthly, October 1995: Summary at: http://dieoff.org/page11.htm
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:
Friere, P., —Chapter 3", from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, New York: Seabury Press, 1968.
11. GETTING STARTED ON STUDYING MASS MEDIA AND SOCIETY
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