Media Analysis

## Course Description

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Is our media biased? Who controls content on television, radio, newpapers, magazines, websites. What aims or ulterior motives can the owners of a media outlet have?

## Readings

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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky

The Media Monopoly: Ben Bagdikian

## Projects

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Research the following companies and report:

National Amusements owner of Viacom and CBS

Viacom's Assets
CBS Assets

General Electric owner of NBC

GE Assets

News Corporation owner of FOX

News Corporation Holdings

The Walt Disney Company

Disney Media Holdings

Time Warner owner of Time Magazine, AOL, CNN

Time Warner Assets

## The Outside World

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* The Independent Media Center
* Adbusters

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Major contemporary Western philosophers

Analytic|

* G.E.M. Anscombe
* Alfred Jules Ayer
* Isaiah Berlin
* Simon Blackburn
* Ned Block
* Laurence BonJour
* Robert Brandom
* David Chalmers
* Roderick Chisholm
* Noam Chomsky
* Patricia Churchland
* Paul Churchland
* Donald Davidson
* Daniel Dennett
* Fred Dretske
* Michael Dummett
* Gareth Evans
* Arthur Fine
* Jerry Fodor
* Ernest Gellner
* John Gray
* Susan Haack
* R.M. Hare
* Jaakko Hintikka
* Frank Jackson
* Jaegwon Kim
* Christine Korsgaard
* Saul Kripke
* Thomas Kuhn
* Keith Lehrer
* David Lewis
* Bryan Magee
* Ruth B. Marcus
* John McDowell
* Colin McGinn
* Thomas Nagel
* Robert Nozick
* Martha Nussbaum
* Alvin Plantinga
* Karl Popper
* Hilary Putnam
* W.V.O. Quine
* John Rawls
* Peter Railton
* Richard Rorty
* Roger Scruton
* Peter Singer
* John Searle
* J.J.C. Smart
* Ernest Sosa
* Charles Taylor
* Bernard Williams
* Timothy Williamson
* Crispin Wright

Continental European|

* Theodor W. Adorno
* Louis Althusser
* Giorgio Agamben
* Hannah Arendt
* Roland Barthes
* Alain Badiou
* Jean Baudrillard
* Maurice Blanchot
* Simone de Beauvoir
* Pierre Bourdieu
* Cornelius Castoriadis
* Emil Cioran
* Hélène Cixous
* Guy Debord
* Gilles Deleuze
* Jacques Derrida
* Michel Foucault
* Hans-Georg Gadamer
* Jürgen Habermas
* Werner Hamacher
* Martin Heidegger
* Max Horkheimer
* Edmund Husserl
* Peter Janich
* Julia Kristeva
* Henri Lefebvre
* Claude Lévi-Strauss
* Emmanuel Lévinas
* Jean-François Lyotard
* Paul de Man
* Herbert Marcuse
* Jean-Luc Nancy
* Antonio Negri
* Paul Ricoeur
* Jean Paul Sartre
* Michel Serres
* Ernst Tugendhat
* Paul Virilio
* Slavoj Žižek

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