North American Media
Code
711121033
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Teresa Botelho da Silva
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To identify tendencies, roles and dynamics in key moments of the history of American media;
b) To contextualize the contribution of the writen /electronic press in the American national dialogue on the major social and political issues of US history;
c) To contextualize and read critically a selection of journalistic texts;
d)To research and organize, under supervision, a short critical essay centered on a theme of the syllabus (a historical moment, a specific media outlet, the work of an individual journalist), to be presented orally.
Prerequisites
Non applicable.
Subject matter
I The emergence of a North-American Press
a)Colonial press
b) Journalism and revolution
c) The Press of the new Republic
II Consolidation and profissionalization
a) Penny papers and popular journalism
b) Reporting the Civil War
c) Muckraker journalism
III The era of electronic media
a) Radio and the reporting of WWII
b) The pioneers of TV Journalism
c) Vietnam and the media
d) The \"new journalism\"
e) Digital journalism
Bibliography
Brenner, S. B. & Hartt, H. (eds.) (2011). The American Journalism History Reader. New York: Routledge.
Burns, E. (2006). Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism. New York: PublicAffais.
Campbell, W. J. (2003). Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies. Westport: Rutgers.
Cray, Ed. et al. (ed.) (2003). American Datelines: Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present. Urbana: University of Illinois Press .
Dell´Orto, G. (2013). American Journalism and International Relations: Foreign Correspondence from the Early Republic to the Digital Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Edgerton, Gary R. (2009). The Columbia History of American Television, New York: Columbia University Press.
Edwards, B. (2004). Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.
Novotny, P. J. (2014). The Press in American Politics 1787-2012. Westport: Praeger.
Teaching method
Theoretical introductory exposition of the basic problematics of the syllabus, as contextualization of the primary sources under analysis, followed by student centered group discussions of those primary sources.
Evaluation method
Oral presentation of short research essay (40%).
Writing of short essays in exam form (60%).