MEDIA SOCIETY AND POWER:
Description:
Please complete a 2000 critical summary of Oliver Boyd-Barrett (2004) ‘Judith Miller, The New York Times, and the propaganda model’, Journalism Studies, 5:4, 435-449,
When marking your assignments, we will look for evidence of the following criteria:
1. Your knowledge of content: You will be expected to demonstrate that you can identify the key elements of an argument put forward in at least one academic text, such as a book, a book chapter, or a journal article.
2. Your ability to place this argument within its academic context. You will be expected to demonstrate your ability to identify and discuss connections between academic arguments. You can do this in different ways. You can discuss how the arguments by a particular key thinker have been taken up and developed, but also challenged by other writers. You can also explore how the argument in one reading is already a development of a much older idea. The ‘Reflecting on the Reading’ sections in Mills and Barlow (2009; 2012) are an example of how to do this.
3. Your ability to apply a theory covered in this module to examples of media culture. In several chapters, Mills and Barlow (2009; 2012) encourage you to think of examples. The weekly key readings will get you into the habit of thinking of examples of your own. Make sure you take notes so you have a record of your ideas.
4. Your ability to critically reflect on academic debates. In this module we want to encourage you to formulate your own strong arguments about academic theory. You will be asked to make a case for or against the usefulness of a theoretical approach. You can do this by engaging with additional academic sources and debates, but also by applying debates to relevant examples.
5. Your ability to reference your sources
6. Presentation
7. Written communication