Required:

Useful for first assignment (which closes due May 3):

• Outline from class (includes news filtering links)
• Journalists’ code of ethics
• Structure and agency (journalists and bosses)
• News filters
• More on filtering
• Democracy on Junk Food (pdf, video)

Second (spin journal) assignment (due June 3):

• Media bias
• Left vs right stereotypes
• Mass persuasion
• Persuasion strategies: global warming and war
• More on propaganda principles
• Edward Bernays’ experiment with women and smoking (about 8-10 minute excerpt)

Optional:

• Having trouble finding stories?
• Resources on fake news
• Using the media (techniques)
• The media ‘echo chamber‘
• More resources
• News resources
• Iraq PR Campaign (understanding war and mass persuasion)
• Resources used in Soc 345