September 18 – Reception & Use of Media Content
September 13 – Reading
September 11 – Interpretation of Media Content
September 6 – Author/ity
September 4 – Audiences & Media Effects
August 23 – Framing Contemporary Discourse
Sample – Critical Reading
The way I key or code my notes are as follows:
- ideas or concepts in boxes
- explanation of concepts are underlined
- thematic continuaties are underlined with a squiggly line
- summaries are highlighted
- authors in boxes (with the top left corner colored in)
- my own notes are in the left margin (notice how the book is printed with a larger margin for easy note taking)
August 28 – Laying a Fondation for Studying Race, Gender, Class & the Media
August 30 – Why Theory?
Intro to Ethnic Studies 