Week 5: The Signal in the Noise
Jun 6 (W) Suggested Materials:
- Curtis, A. (2011). Every Day is Life Sunday. BBC.
- Curtis, A. (2012). Rupert Murdoch- A Portrait of Satan. BBC.
- Gilson, D. (2012, Dec. 17). Blast From the Past: NRA Propaganda Anticipates Newtown. Mother Jones.
- NRA (2006). Freedom in Peril: Guarding the 2nd Amendment in the 21st Century [an NRA pamphlet]. Washington, D.C.: National Rifle Association.
- Pickard, V. (2017, Nov. 28). The Big Picture: Misinformation Society. Public Books.
- Maheshwari, S. (2016, Nov. 20). How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study. New York Times.
- Marantz, A. (2017, Dec. 27). How a Liberal Scholar of Conspiracy Theories Became the Subject of a Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory. New Yorker.
- Listen- Pein, C. (2017, Aug. 2). Media for the Apocalypse. News from Nowhere.
- Brosius, H.B. and Weimann, G. (1996). Who Sets the Agenda? Agenda-Setting as a Two-Step Flow. Communication Research 23(5): 561-580.
- Weimann, G. (1982). On the Importance of Marginality: One More Step into the Two-Step Flow of Communications. American Sociological Review 47(6): 764-773.
- Ruggiero, T.E. (2000). Uses and Gratifications Theory in the 21stCentury. Mass Communication and Society 3(1): 3-37.