Study Guide for Quiz #1

Quiz #1 will cover concepts and vocabulary in all assigned readings (including textbook chapters), lectures, and the media we watched or listened to in class. It will cover everything up through Magazines (July 13-20). This includes:

• All terms from all assigned textbook chapters. Most are in the margins of the textbook. (I will give you the definition, you write the word.) Additionally you will need to study these definitions from Hanson, Chapter 1:

o Mass Media
o Mass Communication
o Ritual Model
o Publicity Model
o Reception Model

• Stanley Baran’s “What is Culture?”
• Stuart Hall’s on representation (video)
• John Carlson on media ownership deregulation (video)
• Obama’s on media consolidation (video)
• Radio Lab show on The War of the Worlds Broadcast (mp3/link)

You should review all assigned readings and study the terms and the lecture notes (on Blackboard). I will not accept temporary Blackboard outages as an excuse for not studying the course materials, as there has been plenty of time to access these materials.

The first Quiz will be 15% of your final grade.