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Assessment Reading Lists

 This document has reading lists for each assessment choice.


 You should first read the textbook and the required readings for each week, then
read the books and articles on this page.
 This page has ACADEMIC READINGS that you need to use in your assessments.
 You will also need to include ORIGINAL EXAMPLES from non-academic sources.
 In your assessment you must:
o build an ARGUMENT by
o analysing ORIGINAL EXAMPLES
o using results, concepts and theories from these ACADEMIC READINGS.
 After you choose which assessment you will do, read ALL the key texts and a selection
of the supplementary texts as listed below.
Individual essays
I. Select a type of media text and perform a content analysis.
Key Sources:

1. Hansen, A., & Machin, D. (2010). Media and Communication Research Methods. Palgrave
Macmillan. [Chapter 5: Measuring output: Content analysis]
2. Swann, P. (2020). The illustrated guide to the content analysis research project. Routledge.
3. Riffe, D., Lacy, S., & Fico, F. (2014). Analyzing media messages: Using quantitative content
analysis in research. Routledge. http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203551691
Supplementary Sources:

4. González-Palomares, A., & Rey-Cao, A. (2022). The representation of disability in physical


education textbooks in Spain. Sport in Society, 25(8), 1450–1468.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2020.1828355
5. Mastro, D. E., & Stern, S. R. (2003). Representations of race in television commercials: A
content analysis of prime-time advertising. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media,
47(4), 638–647. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4704_9
6. Ott, B. L., & Mack, R. L. (2014). Critical Media Studies: An Introduction. Hoboken: John
Wiley & Sons. Chapter 6: Cultural Analysis
7. Previs, K. K. (2016). Gender and Race Representations of Scientists in Highlights for
Children: A Content Analysis. Science Communication, 38(3), 303–327.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547016642248
8. Prieler, M., Kohlbacher, F., Hagiwara, S., & Arima, A. (2011). Gender representation of
older people in Japanese television advertisements. Sex Roles, 64(5), 405–415.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-010-9923-y
9. Thomas, M., Harell, A., Rijkhoff, S. A. M., & Gosselin, T. (2021). Gendered News Coverage
and Women as Heads of Government. Political Communication, 38(4), 388–406.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2020.1784326
10. van Meer, M. M., & Pollmann, M. M. H. (2022). Media representations of lesbians, gay men,
and bisexuals on Dutch television and people’s stereotypes and attitudes about LGBs.
Sexuality & Culture, 26(2), 640–664. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-021-09913-x
11. Walsh, A., & Leaper, C. (2020). A content analysis of gender representations in preschool
children’s television. Mass Communication and Society, 23(3), 331–
355. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2019.1664593
12. Williams, D., Martins, N., Consalvo, M., & Ivory, J. D. (2009). The virtual census:
Representations of gender, race and age in video games. New Media & Society, 11(5), 815–
834. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444809105354
II. Using examples from real-world news sources, critically evaluate the following
statement: mediatization have a negative impact on the public sphere.
Key Sources:
1. Lundby, Knut. 1Mediatization of Communication. Mediatization of communication. (2014).
[This is the introduction to a handbook on mediatization. Many of the chapters in this edited
collection are relevant to your essay, and are listed below].
2. Kellner, Douglas. "Habermas, the public sphere, and democracy: A critical
intervention." Perspectives on Habermas 1.1 (2000): 259-288.
3. Kellner, Douglas. "Habermas, the public sphere, and democracy." Re-imagining public
space: The Frankfurt school in the 21st century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014.
19-43.
4. Ornerbring, H. and Jonsson, A. M. 2004. ‘Tabloid Journalism and the Public Sphere:
Historical Perspective on Tabloid Journalism’. Journalism Studies, (3): 283-295.
Further Reading:

5. Hepp, Andreas, Stig Hjarvard, and Knut Lundby. "Mediatization: theorizing the interplay
between media, culture and society." Media, culture & society 37.2 (2015): 314-324.
6. Strömbäck, Jesper, and Frank Esser. "16. Mediatization of politics: Transforming
democracies and reshaping politics." Mediatization of communication 21 (2014).
7. Hjarvard, Stig. "The mediatization of society: A theory of the Media as Agents of Social and
Cultural Change." Nordicom review 29.2 (2008).
8. Asp, Kent. "15 Mediatization: rethinking the question of media power." Mediatization of
communication (2014): 349.
9. Sun, Wanning. "Mediatization with Chinese characteristics: political legitimacy, public
diplomacy and the new art of propaganda." Mediatization of Communication 21 (2014): 87-
107.
10. Johansson, Sofia. "‘They just make sense’: tabloid newspapers as an alternative public
sphere." Media and public spheres. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. 83-95.
III. Explain some of the arguments for and against journalistic objectivity. Do you think
journalists should pursue objective reporting? Give reasons for your answer.
Key Sources:

1. Barkho, L., Thomas, E., Eckhardt, M., & Mitchell, T. (2013). From Theory to Practice: How
to Assess and Apply Impartiality in News and Current Affairs. Bristol and Chicago: Intellect
2. Entman, R. M. (2007). Framing Bias: Media in the Distribution of Power. Journal of
Communication, 57(1), 163–173. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00336.x
3. Wahl-Jorgensen, K., & Hanitzsch, T. (Eds.). (2009). The Handbook of Journalism Studies.
Routledge. (especially Chapter 7)
Supplementary Sources:

4. Fahy, D. (2018). Objectivity as Trained Judgment: How Environmental Reporters Pioneered


Journalism for a “Post-truth” Era. Environmental Communication, 12(7), 855–861.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2018.1495093
5. Muñoz-Torres, J. R. (2012). Truth and Objectivity in Journalism. Journalism Studies, 13(4),
566–582. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2012.662401
6. Rehman, S. N. (2018). A camera never told the truth: An exploration of objectivity in
photojournalism. Annales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 21(4), 45–57.
https://doi.org/10.18778/1899-2226.21.4.05
7. Wallace, L. R. (2019). The view from somewhere: Undoing the myth of journalistic
objectivity. The University of Chicago Press.
8. Meyers, C. (2020). Partisan News, the Myth of Objectivity, and the Standards of Responsible
Journalism. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 35(3), 180–194.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23736992.2020.1780131
9. Jukes, S. (2018). Back to the Future: How UK-based news organisations are rediscovering
objectivity. Journalism Practice, 12(8), 1029–1038.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2018.1494512
10. Katz, J. E., & Mays, K. K. (Eds.). (2019). Journalism and truth in an age of social media.
Oxford University Press.
11. Møller Hartley, J., & Askanius, T. (2021). Activist-journalism and the Norm of Objectivity:
Role Performance in the Reporting of the #MeToo Movement in Denmark and Sweden.
Journalism Practice, 15(6), 860–877. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2020.1805792
12. Yancey, G. A. (2019). Prejudice in the press?: Investigating bias in coverage of race, gender,
sexuality and religion. McFarland & Company, Inc, Publishers.

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