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JRN450: SPORTS, MEDIA & CAPITALISM
William Perlman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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PLAN FOR THE COURSE & READING ASSIGNMENTS

*Readings are posted on the day they will be presented/discussed*

Aug. 29      Opening remarks, introductions, schedule oral presentations

Sept. 5       No class (Labor Day)

Sept. 12    What is Capitalism?
                  Presentation I:  Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction, James Fulcher
                  Additional Readings: 
                  The Rich, the Poor, and the Growing Gap between Them--Inequality in America, The Economist
                  Framing Class: Media Representation of Wealth and Poverty in America, Diana Kendall
                  VIDEO (in class): Wealth Inequality in America 

Sept. 19    The Role of Sports in Society
                  Presentation II: Rip Off the Big Game, Paul Hoch, Chapters 1-5

Sept. 26    The Marriage of Sports and Capitalism
                  Presentation III: Rip Off the Big Game, Paul Hoch, Chapters 6-10

Oct. 3        The Sports-Media Complex 
                  Presentation IV: Cultural Studies and The Sports-Media Complex, Sut Jhally
                  
Oct. 10      The TV Effect & The Mediated Fan
                  Presentation V: Sports Media: A Modern Institution, Robert V. Bellamy, Jr.
                  Additional Readings:
                  Time to panic over declining viewership?, John Ourand, Sports Business Journal
                  Why media firms will triumph over the cord-cutting threat, John E. Maloney, CNBC.com
                  Rising TV Fees Mean All Viewers Pay to Keep Sports Fans Happy, Brian Stelter, New York Times
                  Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, Wikipedia

Oct. 17     The Digital Effect & The Mediated Fan
                 Presentation VI: SOCIALMEDIASPORT: The fan as a (mediated) participant, Bowman & Cranmer 
                 Additional Readings: 
                 Many Rural AT&T Customers Still Lack High-Speed Internet Despite Merger Promise, Gerry Smith, Huffington Post
                 The new digital divide: No Snapchat, no Instagram, Crystle Martin & Mimi Ito, UC-Irvine
                
Professional Sports Going Digital by Embracing ICT, Laurence Goasduff, Gartner.com

Oct. 24       The Discourse of Sport: Winners & Consumers
                  Presentation VII: The Rhetoric of Winning and Losing: The American Dream and America's Team, Vande Berg & Trujillo
                  Additional Readings: 
                  Sports, bin Laden, and the New Normal, Dave Zirin, The Nation
                  Veterans Affairs: The Uneasy Marriage of Military Money and the NFL, Charles P. Pierce, Grantland.com

Oct. 31    No new readings
                   Abbreviated class to discuss paper due at the end of the week


Nov. 7      Keeping Order: Gender and Sports
                  Presentation VIII: “It’s Dude Time!” A Quarter Century of Excluding Women’s Sports in Televised News and Highlight Shows,                                    Cooky, Messner & Musto
                  Additional Reading:
                  The Televised Sports Manhood Formula, Messner, Dunbar & Hunt
                  VIDEO (in class): Media Coverage & Female Athletes, A Tucker Center/tptMN video documentary ​

Nov. 14    Keeping Order: Race and Sports
                 Presentation IX: Sport, the Media, and the Construction of Race, Grainger, Newman & Andrews 
                 Additional Readings: 
                 Color Coded: Racial Descriptors in Television Coverage of Intercollegiate Sports, Rada & Wulfemeyer
                 Deconstructing Tyson: The Black Boxer as American Icon, Neil Wynn

Nov. 21     No class (Thanksgiving)

Nov. 28     Keeping Order: Race and Sports
                 Presentation: X: The Jockey Syndrome: The Dilemma of Exclusion & The Dilemma of Wealth Without Control, William C.              
​                 Rhoden
 (Chapters 3 & 10 of Forty Million Dollar Slaves)

Dec. 5       Keeping Order: Do Sports Owners OWN You? 
                  Presentation: XI: A Tale of Two Inner Cities from "Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into
                  Private Profit," by deMause & Cagan
                   
If You Build It, Prosperity Will NOT Come: What The Studies Say from "They Play, You Pay," by James T. Bennett
                  **For FINAL PAPER, read "Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining The Games We Love"**

Dec. 14    Pizza, final paper discussion (Class starts at 1 p.m.)
FINAL PAPER DUE NO LATER THAN 5 p.m., FRIDAY, DEC. 16

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