revised syllabus

389b. Alternative Media: Projects, Platforms and Networks Syllabus
This course explores films that are beyond the cineplex, radio broadcast by pirates in Yonkers, cell phone video operas, and other forms of communication in our wired and wireless world.

Course work will consist of weekly reports written in a class blog, a curatorial web video project, a mid term quiz on the readings and a final report due on Wednesday of Exam Week. There will be some external screenings and events required.

The required books are:
DeeDee Halleck, Hand-Held Visions, Fordham University Press
Geert Lovink, Zero Comments, Routledge Publishers

The recommended books are:
John Downing, Radical Media: Communication and Social Change, Sage
Clemencia Rodriquez, Fissures in the Mediascape, Hampton Press.

January 23 MEDIA RESISTANCE IN THE UNITED STATES
Screening: Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger
Reading Assignment: Hand-Held Visions First 4 sections (pp 3 - 186)
Radical Media: pp 299-324
Internet: www.papertiger.org, www.deepdishtv.org, www.deepdishwavesofchange.org

January 30 ALTERNATIVE MEDIA AROUND THE WORLD
Reading: Hand Held Visions next 2 sections (pp 186-283)
Screening:Herb Schiller Read the New York Times
Internet: www.fcc.gov, www.freepress.org, www.

February 6 PUBLIC ACCESS: MEDIA DEMOCRACY
Reading: Finish Hand-Held Visions (pp 286-430)
Guest via i-chat : Michael Eisenmenger
Internet: www.freepress.org, http://ourchannels.org
Reading: Autonomia

February 13 VIDEO HISTORY
Screening: Videofreex
Reading: First Proposal for initiating Democracy Now TV, Proposal for Indymedia

February 20 ALTERNATIVE NEWS
Screening: Democracy Now!, INDYMEDIA , The Real News, Alternet,
Jon Stewart, Laura Flanders and others.
Reading: Radical Media, John Downing Chapters 15
Reading: Geert Lovink Zero Comments, Chapter 4 pp 99-116
Internet: www.indymedia.org

February February 27 WHOSE BAND WIDTH? OUR BAND WIDTH!
Screening: Barn Raisings in Tennessee and Oregon
Reading: Prometheus Newsletter
Assignment: youTube/blip/blog curated projects Each student will curate 10 minutes of internet video and copy to a DVD-R disk or flash drive.

March 5 THE RADIO PIRATE OF YONKERS
Visitor: Joseph Paul Ferraro of WHVW (and former radio pirate)
Reading: Article about/by Ferraro
Internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHVW
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E3D81F3CF931A2575BC0A9679C8B63&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FC%2FCorporations

March 12 , March 19 SPRING BREAK

March 26 MIDTERM Quiz/Discussion on Readings, Screenings of selected
youTube programs
LABOR AND MEDIA
Screening: The Lie Machine, film made by Coal Miners Union in the UK
Korean Labor News; youTube clips from Screen Writers Union Strike
Guest: Hye Jung Park, Director of Media Justice Fund, Funding Exchange
Reading: Geert Lovink Zero Comments, Chapters 6, 7, 8
Internet: www.itu.org, www.apc.org, www.amarc.org, www.crisinfo.org

April 2 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS AND WSIS
Screening: Interviews from the World Summit on the Information Society
Reading: Zero Comments: Chapter 9, 10, 11
Guest: Elizabeth Press Screening: Still We Ride (about Critical Mass)
Internet: www.dictionaryofwar.org

April 9 PLATFORMS AND FORMATS
Screening: Dictionary of War, Sarai, Tetsuo Kogawa's Radio Homerun, Democracy Now! Gulf Crisis TV Project, Shocking and Awful
Reading: Micro Radio Article by Tetsuo Kogawa from Cultures in Contention.

April 16 DISTRIBUTED AESTHETICS
Screening: Mobi Opera: Shulea Cheang's cellphone extravaganzas
Adriene Jenik: Library Revolution
Internet: Game Industry Defense: http://gamepolitics.com/
Reading: Chapter from From Sun Tzu to X Box by Ed Halter

April 23 GAMES AND GAMERS
Reading: Ed Halter's blog http://warandvideogames.typepad.com/
Internet: Liberation Range-- http://dollyoko.thing.net//subtle/
Eddo Stern : http://www.eddostern.com/
Screening: Sheik Attack by Eddo Stern

April 30 MEDIA JUSTICE/MEDIA REFORM/MEDIA POWER
Screening: FCC hearings at Hyde Park, Excerpts from Media Reform Conference
Internet: freepress.org,Bill Moyers' speech: http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1112-10.htm

May 7 (Last Class)

May 14 Final Reports/projects due

May 20 Class Party/Screening