How the class works
There are three or four short chapters or paper extracts to read each week, everybody should read them and prepare any questions they need to ask during class. In addition the ‘presenter’ should prepare themselves to explain the content of their assigned reading to the rest of the class(see below for guiding questions), this short (10-15mins) presentation should include the basic information about the reading; who wrote it, perhaps a little on their background, the main ideas, theories referred to and concepts the paper talks about and also a description of any data they refer to/make use of. The back-up presenter should also try to be prepared to step in if the main presenter does not come to class.
We should all be prepared to discuss a few basic questions about each of the readings;
- What does the author want to tell us?
- What evidence does the author use to support their argument?
- What are the most important concepts and ideas used in the paper?
- Are there any particularly important (perhaps controversial) words that need to be thought about carefully?
- Why has the author chosen the ideas they focus on and how have they used them?
- If there was anything in the paper that you didn’t understand, what was it?
Weekly Arrangements
Week 12: Feedback on review drafts
Please come to class at the times specified below:
| TANAKA Hiroki | 0900 |
| MENG Jing | 0900 |
| FAN Chuhan | 0900 |
| INOUE Misa | 0900 |
| JIN Yu | 0900 |
| TATYALIKA Keshia | 0900 |
| CUANDY Eunice | 0945 |
| HARAGUCHI Hibiki | 0945 |
| WATANABE Ai | 0945 |
| HUANG Jing-Ting | 0945 |
| LIN Keng-Wei | 1015 |
| KAMEYAMA Koichiro | 1015 |
| RAUNER Robin | 1015 |
| IRFAN Araqi | 1015 |
| CHAT-AMPAIWONG Woraset | 1015 |
Week 11: Objectivity & Ideology of News(2)
| CHAT-AMP. Woraset | INOUE Misa | Zelizer, p340 | |
| CUANDY Eunice | LIN Keng-Wei | Picard, p355 | |
| FAN Chuhan | MENG Jing | Merritt, p365 | |
| TANAKA Hiroki | WATANABE Ai | Bardoel, p379 | |
Week 10: Objectivity & Ideology of News
| IRFAN Araqi | CHAT-AMPAIWONG Woraset | Tuchman, p297 | |
| JIN Yu | CUANDY Eunice | Soloski, p308 | |
| TATYALIKA Keshia | FAN Chuhan | Hallin, p329 | |
| RAUNER Robin | HUANG Jing-Ting | McCombs & Shaw, p320 | |
Week 9: Sources of News (2)
| INOUE Misa | HARAGUCHI Hibiki | Sigal, p224 | |
| WATANABE Ai | IRFAN Araqi | Gitlin, p267 | |
| LIN Keng-Wei | KAMEYAMA Koichiro | Hall et al, p249 | |
| MENG Jing | TANAKA Hiroki | Gans, p235 | |
Week 8: Economics / Sources
| KAMEYAMA Koichiro | RAUNER Robin | McManus, p180 | |
| HARAGUCHI Hibiki | JIN Yu | Tunstall, p191 | |
| HUANG Jing-Ting | TATYALIKA Keshia | Gieber, p218 | |
| INOUE Misa | LIN Keng-Wei | Sigal, p224 | |
Week 7: Economics of News
| CHAT-AMP. Woraset | HUANG Jing-Ting | Bagdikian, p148 | |
| CUANDY Eunice | INOUE Misa | Golding and Murdock, p155 | This is a tricky one, bear in mind they are writing to define a new approach (CPE) |
| FAN Chuhan | MENG Jing | Herman and Chomsky, p166 | |
| KAMEYAMA Koichiro | WATANABE Ai | McManus, p180 | |
Week 6: More news production!
Week 5: Production of News (cont.)
All readings are from the book this week.
| TATYALIKA Keshia | HARAGUCHI Hibiki | Golding and Elliot, p112 | |
| LIN Keng-Wei | HUANG Jing-Ting | Schlesinger, p121 | |
| MENG Jing | INOUE Misa | Ericson et al, p97 | |
| WATANABE Ai | TANAKA Hiroki | Fishman, p102 | |
Week 4: Production of News
Week 3: Definitions of News (cont.)
Week 2: Definitions of News
| CHAT-AMPAIWONG Woraset | RAUNER Robin | Lippmann, W. (1946). Public opinion. Transaction Publishers. | |
| EUNICE Cuandy | TANAKA Hiroki | Galtung, J. and Ruge, M. H. (1965). The structure of foreign news. Journal of Peace Research, 2(1):64–91. | |
| FAN Chuhan | WATANABE Ai | Park, R. E. (1940). News as a form of knowledge: A chapter in the sociology of knowledge. American Journal of Sociology, pages 669–686. | |
| IRFAN Araqi | JIN Yu | Harcup, T. and O’Neill, D. (2001). What is news? Galtung and Ruge revisited. Journalism Studies, 2(2):261–280. | Not in the book, download only |
If the files mentioned above are pdfs that I provide and aren’t taken directly from the Tumber book, they may be marked instead with green (GO!) and red (STOP!) lines; start reading at the green lines and stop at the red! (Of course, you can read it all if it’s interesting and you have time.)
Presenters (and back-up presenters) should read their text thoroughly and come prepared to explain to the rest of us what it was about - see the questions above for some guidance on what you need to cover in your presentation. Everyone else should try to read (or at least skim) all the readings and come to the class ready to ask questions and participate in discussion. Just to remind you, participation in class is 40% of the grade and the best way to get a good grade is to bring good questions and participate in trying to answer them. Good questions will help everyone understand better, probably even me!
If you have any problem accessing the readings please let me know as soon as possible and I can try to fix any technical problems there might be.
See you in class!