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3.00 Credits
Krippendorff. An introduction to content analysis, the analysis of large bodies of textual matter, also called message systems analysis, quantitative semantics, propaganda analysis, and (computer-aided) text analysis. The course inquires into the theories, methods, and empirical problems common to these analytical efforts: sampling, text retrieval, coding, reliability, analytical constructs, computational techniques, and abductive inference. It illustrates these problems by studies of mass media content, interview or panel data, legal research, and efforts to draw inferences from personal documents typical in psychology and literature. Students design a content analysis and do the preparatory work for an academic or practical research project. They may also use the opportunity of forging available theories into a new analytical technique and test it with available texts, or solve a methodological problem in content analysis research.
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3.00 Credits
Messaris. Prerequisite(s): COMM 562 or permission of instructor. Fulfills ASC Culture Distribution. Research on the structure and effects of visual media. Movies, video, the web, photography, etc., as objects of analysis and as research tools. Students design and carry out their own projects.
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3.00 Credits
Marvin. Taboo considered as refusing various possibilities for cultural communication and practice. How the forbidden is conveyed, consented to, imposed or challenged by situated participants. Topics may include taboo aspects of identity, politics, speech, art, religion, food and bodily practice. Students may choose from a variety of topics for individual investigation.
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3.00 Credits
Cappella. Prerequisite(s): COMM 575. Fulfills ASC Influence Distribution. Current research, theory and statistical methods for assessing the effects of messages. Specific focus on messages designed to have a persuasive effect on attitudes, beliefs, opinions, or behaviors. Experimental and non-experimental research from mass and interpersonal communication, health, social psychology, advertising, political science and journalism will be considered. Unintended effects--such as the consequences of violent pornography--are not considered.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Proposal written in specified form and approved by both the student's project supervisor and academic advisor must be submitted with registration. Open only to graduate degree candidates in communication.
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3.00 Credits
Price, M./Katz. Fulfills ASC Institutions Distribution. This course will address old and new patterns of communications flow across national and societal borders, taking account of media technologies, mutual perceptions, rhetorical forms, and the balance of power and influence in a globalizing world.
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3.00 Credits
Katz. Fulfills ASC Influence or Culture Distribution. Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are there any Should there be How about these Reading for this course centers on 13 essays, each of which nominates a text for "canonization." This course will deal with (1) the original texts and their critiques, (2) the schools which the texts represent, and (3) the debate over canonizing texts in social science.
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3.00 Credits
Price, M. Fulfills ASC Institutions Distribution. This course examines the idea of "models" of media regulation. We look at varying techniques and contexts for shaping media policy. One focus will be on transformations of public service broadcasting. Another will be on media in conflict zones. Another theme will be state responses to the permeability of the Internet (and other new technologies). Depending on various research activities, there may be a focus on media reform in the Arab Middle East. We'll use my book, Media and Sovereignty, published by MIT in 2003 and materials produced by BBC Monitoring World Media.
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3.00 Credits
Price, V. Fulfills ASC Influence Distribution. This seminar explores debates over the potential of the Internet to affect community and political engagement. The nature and contours of civic participation will be examined from normative, theoretical and empirical perspectives, with a focus on the functions of communication media generally and Internet-related technologies specifically. Students in the seminar will canvass available studies, experimental projects and online initiatives, and will undertake original research projects. Topics addressed include: ways in which Internet-related technologies might be used as tools for citizens to interact, organize, and participate in democratic life; possible psychological and social effects of Internet use, and their implications for civic engagement; connections between civic engagement, social capital, and the Internet; and implications of the Internet for public opinion.
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3.00 Credits
Katz/Marvin. Fulfills ASC Culture Distribution. The object of this course is (1) to identify public spaces, physical and virtual-- past, present, and future; (2) to review the terms of admission and participation in the public sphere, (3) to consider the nature of interaction and influence within these spaces; (4) to relate such participation (and non- participation) to the media of communication; (5) to explore the policy implications of public spaces for participatory democracy.
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