News as entertainment, news as information source, news as satire, news as social instructor: there are many ways in which audiences interact with the news. We will look critically at ideas like discourse, news value and news filters, and will then learn scholarly tools for analyzing news and its audiences. From radio to tabloid journals to E-zines to Twitter, we will open up the idea of what news is in the 21st century, and think about the history, meanings, and future of these formats. War news and digital media are a particular focus of this course. Lect: 3 hrs. Course Weight: 1.00 Billing Units: 1
