Chapter 2. Mass Communication Effects: How Society and Media Interact
Changes in Political Advertising (pg. 42-46)
Political ads can now be independently produced and easily distributed over the Internet. Here are the two examples discussed in the opening vignette for Chapter 2.
Missing White Woman Syndrome – The Lakesha Parker Case (pg. 49-50)
Lakesha Parker, age 33, was murdered by persons back in December of 2005 in an elementary schoolyard in inner-city Washington DC. The murder was caught on a surveillance camera, but but the picture quality is bad because any lights in the area were burnt out. According to Washington Post columnist Colbert I. King, DC school officials took 12 days to replace missing locks at the school and had yet to replace a bullet-pocked door.
According to a search of Google news, the only major published item on the case was by King. A broader search of Google showed a three graph mention in the Post in a crime round up. Say all you want about the differences between Fox and CNN, neither network acknowledged Parker existed.
Interview with composer John Adams (pg. 52)
Marshall McLuhan and Televised Sports (pg. 52-54)
Includes a link to nice bit of YouTube video on McLuhan.
George Gerbner on the effects of television violence (pg. 65)
- Reclaiming Our Cultural Mythology: Television’s global marketing strategy creates a damaging and alienated window on the world, by George Gerbner
- TV violence and the art of asking the wrong question, by George Gerbner
Political Campaign Ad Examples (pg. 66-67)
Examples of ads from the 2008 presidential campaign. And several other examples of about media and politics from the 2008 campaign season.
Bias and the News (pg. 67-70)
- Experiments on the perception of news bias (pg. 69)
Article from the Washington Post. - Readings on Media & Bias
- A Debate on Media Bias (pg. 70)