The Quality of Information, Infosys 290 Section 10 Paul Duguid and Geoffrey Nunberg
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Newspapers, the news, and the constitution of the "public sphere"

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Primary Reading

Dahlgren, Peter. 2001. The Public Sphere and the Net: Structure, Space, and Communication, pp. 33-55 in W. Lance Bennett and Robert M. Entman, eds., Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schudson, Michael. 1978. Stories of Information & Objectivity becomes Ideology pp 88-159 in Discovering the News. New York: Basic Books.

Sullivan, Andrew. 2003. Blog Revolution. Wired 10.05. May.

Williams, Raymond. 1961. The Growth of the Popular Press, pp 173-214 in The Long Revolution. London: Chatto & Windus.

Secondary Reading

Downie, J.A. 1979. Swift, Defoe, and the Peace Campaign, pp 131-148 in Robert Harley and the Press: Propaganda and Public Opinion in the Age of Swift and Defoe. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Falcone, Michael. 2003. Does an Editors Pencil Ruin a Web Log. New York Times. September 29.

Habermas, Jurgen. 1989. Political Functions of the Public Sphere, & The Bourgeois Public Sphere: Idea and Ideology, pp 57-88 (part III) in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Lippman, Walter. 1997 (1922). Newspapers, part 7 (pp. 201-230) of Public Opinion. New York: Free Press.

Spenenberg, Adam L. 2004. Searching for The New York Times. Wired. July 14.

Starr, Paul. 2004. The Constitution of the Air(2): Creating the New Public Sphere, pp 347-384 in The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications. New York: Basic Books.

Trippi, Joe. 2004. Seizing Power in the Internet Age, pp 201-236 (Part III) in The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. New York: Regan Books (Harper/Collins)

Terdiman, Dandiel. 2004. Wry Hoaxes Enliven the World of Web Diarists. New York Times, July 29.

Watt, Ian. 1957. The Reading Public and the Rise of the Novel, pp35- 59, in The Rise of the Novel. Berkeley, CA: California University Press.




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