Reason Media Studies 101
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GoogleIn conjunction with The Interactive Media Studies Program at Miami University of Ohio, reason's Nick Gillespie is co-teaching a class called "Poltics, Culture, and New Media."
The course explores the theory and practice of new media, especially as it relates to cultural and political journalistic outlets. In alternating weeks, the course takes place in classroom spaces on the Miami University campus in Reason's DC-based offices, where Gillespie, a Ph.D. in literature and a 20-year veteran of journalism, leads Web-based videoconferences with journalists, authors and policy analysts.
On October 1, Gillespie and his class spoke reason editor in chief Matt Welch. Watch the hour-long conversation, which was shot and edited by Dan Hayes (himself a Miami University alum).
The reading list for the class was as follows:
Be Afraid
of President McCain
The frightening mind of an
authoritarian maverick. Reason. April 2007
Free Sam Zell!
Why 'media activists' should be mocked for trying to block the
buying and selling of newspapers and television stations. Los
Angeles Times Online. November 16, 2007
Blogworld
The New Amateur Journalists Weigh in
Columbia Journalism Review. September/October 2003
Woe is
Media
It's Time to Save Journalism From its Saviors. Reason.
December, 2002
The Cuban
Senators
Julio Becquer and the Last-Place Cuban-Flavored Teams of 1950s
D.C.. ESPN.com. March 11, 2002
New
Jersey's Teen Matt Drudge
Sergio Bichao's Underground Web Newspaper has his High School
Reeling. Online Journalism Review. March 12, 2001
My Time in
the DEN of Iniquity
Report on 6 Weird Weeks Spent at the
Infamously Mismanaged Digital Entertainment Network. Online
Journalism Review. May 25, 2000
Cookie
Monster of Putnam Pit
Why One Beverly Hills Journalist Is Fighting an Entire Tennessee
Town...And Defining Internet Sunshine Laws Along the Way.
Salon. October 15, 1998
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