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| Preface | |
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| Correlation Guide | |
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| Topic Guide | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Media and Social Issues | |
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| Are Family Values Shaped by the Mass Media? | |
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| YES: Leigh H. Edwards, from "Reality TV and the American Family," in Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Devorak, eds., The Tube Has Spoken (The University Press of Kentucky, 2010), pp.123-141 | |
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| NO: Karen Sternheimer, from "Hollywood Doesn't Threaten Family Values," Contexts (2008) | |
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| Do Media Unite the Population in Times of Crisis? | |
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| YES: Marcia Landy, from "'America Under Attack': Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and History in the Media," in Wheeler Winston Dixon, ed., Film and Television After 9/11 (Southern Illinois University Press 2004), pp. 79-100 | |
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| NO: Michael Eric Dyson, from "Unnatural Disasters: Race and Poverty," Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster (Basic Books, 2006) | |
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| Do Media Distort Representations of Islam and Arab Cultures? | |
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| YES: Wajahat AM, Eli Clifton, Matthew Duss, Lee Fang, Scott Keyes, and Faiz Shakir, from "Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America," Center for American Progress (August 2011), selections from 1-152 | |
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| NO: Gal Beckeman, from "The New Arab Conversation," Columbia Journalism Review (January/February, 2007) | |
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| A Question of Content | |
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| Do Media Cause Individuals to Develop Negative Body Images? | |
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| YES: Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs, from "What Kinds of Subjects and Objects? Gender, Consumer Culture, and Convergence," in Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness (New York University, 2009) | |
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| NO: Michael P. Levine and Sarah K. Murnen, from "Everybody Knows That Mass Media Are/Are Not [pick one] a Cause of Eating Disorders: A Critical Review of Evidence for a Causal Link Between Media, Negative Body Image, and Disordered Eating in Females," Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology (2009) | |
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| Do Video Games Encourage Violent Behavior? | |
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| YES: Craig A. Anderson, from "FAQs on Violent Video Games and Other Media Violence," www.CraigAnderson.org | |
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| NO: Henry Jenkins, from "Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked," www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/ myths.html | |
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| Is Advertising Good for Society? | |
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| YES: John E. Calfee, from "How Advertising Informs to Our Benefit," Consumers' Research (April 1998) | |
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| NO: Dinyar Godrej, from "How the Ad Industry Pins Us Down," New Internationalist (September 2006) | |
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| News and Politics | |
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| Does Fake News Mislead the Public? | |
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| YES: Julia R. Fox, Glory Koloen, and Volkan Sahin, from "No Joke: A Comparison of Substance in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Broadcast Network Television Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Election Campaign," Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (June 2007) | |
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| NO: Barry A. Hollander, from "Late-Night Learning: Do Entertainment Programs Increase Political Campaign Knowledge for Young Viewers?" Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (December 2005) | |
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| Will Evolving Forms of Journalism Be an Improvement? | |
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| YES: The Economist, from "The People Formerly Known as the Audience," The Economist (vol. 399:8741, pp. 9-12, July 7, 2011) | |
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| NO: Alex Jones, from "The Iron Core," in Losing the News (Oxford University Press, 2009) | |
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| Do Social Media Encourage Revolution? | |
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| YES: Clay Shirky, from "The Political Power of Social Media," Foreign Affairs (vol. 90, p. 1, January/February 2011) | |
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| NO: Malcolm Gladwell, from "Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted," The New Yorker (vol. 86, p. 30, October 2010) | |
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| Law and Policy | |
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| Is Hate Speech in the Media Directly Affecting Our Culture? | |
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| YES: Henry A. Giroux, from "Living in a Culture of Cruelty Democracy as Spectacle," Truthout (September 2, 2009) | |
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| NO: Georgie Ann Weatherby and Brian Scoggins, from "A Content Analysis of Persuasion Techniques Used on White Supremacist Websites/' Journal of Hate Studies (vol. 4, 2005-2006) | |
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| Does Online Communication Compromise the Rights of an Individual When Information Is "Anonymous 1" | |
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| YES: Neil Swidey, from "Inside the Mind of the Anonymous Online Poster," Boston.com (June 20, 2010) | |
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| NO: Ian Lloyd, from "Privacy, Anonymity and the Internet," Electronic Journal of Comparative Law (vol. 13, no. 1, March 2009) | |
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| Do Copyright Laws Protect Ownership of Intellectual Property? | |
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| YES: Siva Vaidhyanathan, from "Copyright Jungle," Columbia Journalism Review (September/October 2006) | |
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| NO: Stephanie C. Ardito, from "MySpace and YouTube Meet the Copyright Cops," Searcher (May 2007) | |
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| Media Business | |
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| Did Consolidation of the Music Industry Hurt Music Distribution? | |
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| YES: Greg Kot, from Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (Simon & Schuster, 2009) | |
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| NO: Panos Panay, from "Rethinking Music: The Future of Making Money as a Performing Musician," in Rethinking Music: A Briefing Book, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.law.harvard.edu/files/ RethinkingJv1usic_Briefing_Book_April-25-2011.pdf | |
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| Should Newspapers Shut Down Their Presses? | |
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| YES: Clay Shirky, from "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable," www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/ | |
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| NO: Paul Farhi, from "A Bright Future for Newspapers," American Journalism Review (June/July 2005) | |
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| Do New Business Models Result in Greater Consumer Choice of Products and Ideas? | |
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| YES: Chris Anderson, from "The Long Tail: How Technology Is Turning Mass Markets into Millions of Niches," in The Long Tail-Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (Hyperion, 2006) | |
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| NO: Kathryn C. Montgomery, from "Social Marketing in the New Millennium," in Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet (MIT Press, 2007) | |
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| Life in the Digital Age | |
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| Are Youth Indifferent to News and Politics? | |
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| YES: David T. Z. Mindich, from "Journalism and Citizenship: Making the Connection," Nieman Reports (Winter 2008) | |
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| NO: Pew Internet & American Life Project, from The Internet and Civic Engagement (September 2009), www.pewinternet.org | |
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| Are Online Services Responsible for an Increase in Bullying and Harassment? | |
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| YES: Penny A. Leisring, from "Stalking Made Easy: How Information and Communication Technologies Are Influencing the Way People Monitor and Harass One Another," in Sharon Kleinman, ed., The Culture of Efficiency (Peter Lang, 2009) | |
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| NO: Amanda Lenhart, from "Cyberbullying and Online Teens," Pew Internet & American Life Project (June 27, 2007) | |
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| Are People Better Informed in the Information Society? | |
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| YES: Linda A. Jackson, Alexander von Eye, Frank A. Biocca, Gretchen Barbatsis, Yong Zhao, and Hiram E. Fitzgerald, from "Does Home Internet Use Influence the Academic Performance of Low-Income Children?" Developmental Psychology (vol. 42, no. 3, 2006) | |
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| NO: Mark Bauerlein, from The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Tarcher/ Penguin, 2008) | |
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| Contributors | |