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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
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
