LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WEEKLY THEME
This week’s theme highlights the role news and media play in our society and our perception of current events, from the Iraq War, to Obama’s Presidency, to the recent crash of Continental Flight 3407, news and media filter our knowledge of these events. It is important to understand in what ways they do so and to take a critical look at media and its role in our society.
What is “News & Media”?
The news media refers to the section of the mass media that focuses on presenting current news to the public. These include print media (newspapers, magazines); broadcast media (radio stations, television stations, television networks), and increasingly Internet-based media (World Wide Web pages, weblogs).
Think about the news sources you may look at each and ever day. You can find news on the internet, the TV, radio, or even go “old-fashion” and get the New York Times or USA Today right here on campus!
News and Media Formats could be academic journals, news periodicals, magazines, newspapers, radio stations, television stations and blogs.
Check out Yahoo! News & Media Sources by media, source, or subject at: http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/
WEB RESOURCES:
**Media as Socializing Agent
“The mass media is a powerful socializing agent. For sociologists significance of the media is not limited to the content of media messages. Media affect how we learn about our world and interact with one another. Media literally mediate our relationship with social institutions. We base most of our knowledge on government news accounts, not experience. We are dependent on the media for what we know and how we relate to the world of politics because of the media-politics connection. We read or watch political debates followed by instant analysis and commentary by "experts." Politicians rely on media to communicate their message. Similar dynamics are present in other mediated events such as televised sports and televangelism. Media is part of our routine relations with family and friends. They define our interaction with other people on a daily basis as a diversion, sources of conflict, or a unifying force. Media have an impact on society not only through the content of the message but also through the process.” Read more at: http://www.public.asu.edu/~zeyno217/365/notes1.html
**Media, Culture, and Society
View abstracts from the most recent issue of the academic journal “Media, Culture and Society” and see what kinds of topics researchers are exploring in the field of media studies.
http://mcs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/31/1/137
**An article on New America Media about social networking as a means of sharing information for users of all ages to hunt for jobs, promote events and campaign for political causes quotes Michael Stefanone, assistant professor of communication, who said putting a profile on sites like Facebook is so common that if people don't have a profile, it's perceived as abnormal. The article is available at http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=43202ce21f83de14816349cd788ab178&from=rss.
MEDIA RESEARCH AT UB
Intermedia Performance Studio- http://ips.buffalo.edu/
“The Intermedia Performance Studio (IPS) is a collaborative initiative housed at the University at Buffalo/State University of New York (UB) including researchers, scientists, and artists from the departments of Media Study, Theatre & Dance, and Computer Science and Engineering. Designed as an experimental performance space, the IPS fosters intermedia experiments in virtual reality and live performance. We are particularly interested in exploring how digital technology and virtual environments can affect interpersonal dynamics (i.e., individual interactions with virtual actors and intelligent agents), as well as the communal relationships that are traditionally a part of live performance”
Department of Communication- http://www.communication.buffalo.edu/research/department/
“UB's Department of Communication is devoted to the scientific study of communication phenomena. Our major areas of research include social influence, health communication, new communication technology, and the analysis of social networks. In addition, the Department conducts research in the traditional areas of interpersonal, organizational, mass, and international/intercultural communication.
Our major domains of grant activity are in the areas of deception detection, health communication, and Internet research. Our approach to communication science is decidedly quantitative, and our methods include multivariate statistics, mathematical modeling, computer simulation, and both experimental and survey research, among other techniques. We consider communication as a science, and we distinguish ourselves from programs whose primary emphasis is the art, rhetoric, or practice of communication.”
UB DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER: ANNA QUINDLEN
Anna Quindlen
Newsweek Columnist, Social Critic and Author
Wednesday, March 4, 8 pm
Center for the Arts, UB’s North (Amherst) Campus
Anna Quindlen’s column, The Last Word, is featured in Newsweek and read by millions who value her perspective on events of the day and issues of family, work, education and social justice. A journalist since 1974, Quindlen wrote an op-ed column, Public and Private, for the New York Times in the early 1990’s, during which time she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Quindlen is the author of five best-selling novels including Black and Blue which was featured by Oprah’s Book Club and made into a TV movie, and One True Thing which was made into a feature film starring Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger and William Hurt. Rise and Shine, debuted on the New York Times bestsellers list at #1.
She has also enjoyed great success as a non-fiction and self-help author. A Short Guide to a Happy Life sold over a million copies followed by the national best-seller, Being Perfect. Additionally, Quindlen has published three collections of her columns, including Living Out Loud.
Quindlen is a graduate of Barnard College and has honorary degrees from several universities. In addition to receiving many journalism awards, Quindlen was a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale, a Victoria Fellow in Contemporary Issues at Rutgers, and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Arts & Sciences.
http://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/special/speakers.php#quindlen
HOW CAN I GET INVOLVED?
MAJORS AT UB:
Political Science (Concentration in American Politics and Public Affairs)
Communication- communication.buffalo.edu
Journalism Certificate Program- http://undergradcatalog.buffalo.edu/academicprograms/journ.shtml
Media Study- www.mediastudy.buffalo.edu
Concentration in Critical Studies
Film Studies- www.cas.buffalo.edu/depts/filmstudies/
Marketing- mgt.buffalo.edu
Master’s of Library Science- concentration in “School Media Specialist”- http://www.provost.buffalo.edu/grad/academics/academicprograms.asp?id=81
COURSES AT UB:
COM 452 Analysis of the Media
COM 454 Media in the Information Age
COM 460 World Media Systems
COM 462 Media Law
DMS 155 Introduction to New Media
DMS 259 Introduction to Media Analysis
HIS 238 Mass Media and Foreign Policy
PSC 319 Media in American Politics
VS 375 Science, Culture, and Emerging Media
VS 476 Topics in Print Media
WS 415 Media, Gender and Society
ENG 370 Multimedia Literature
ENG 393 Ethics in Journalism
ENG 394 Journalism: Words and Pictures
SOC 334 Introduction to Mass Cultural Studies: Examination of popular culture and mass media through their relation to social processes. Introduction to the tradition of cultural studies, especially the Frankfurt School of Sociology and the Birmingham School, plus further consideration of contemporary approaches including cultural criticism, postmodernism and semiotics. Study of media culture as institutionalized in the film, music, television, advertising and publishing industries. Analysis of the relationship between popular culture and subcultures, especially adolescent subcultures.
SOC 336 Sociology of Communication: Patterns of communication implied by senders or inferred by receivers drawn from media; categories and rules for interpreting and creating patterns; genesis of patterns in social science, conventional thought, practical experience, and imagination; and their effects on class, ethnic, sex, and age groupings.
Search the Undergraduate Catalog for other course here: http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/coursedescriptions/index.php
CLUBS AT UB:
· Communications Undergraduate SA: http://clubs.buffalosa.org/Detail.aspx?club=9
· Political Science SA: http://clubs.buffalosa.org/Detail.aspx?club=19
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