Media Reform Conference Resources

Course Descriptions and Syllabi

• Latinos & Media - Professor Federico Subervi
• Race, Ethnicity & Media - Professor: Mary Beltrán
• Communication and Race - Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
• Communications Law Syllabus - Professor Lavonda N. Reed-Huff
• Information Society Policies and Politics Syllabus - Nolan A. Bowie, J.D.
• Cross Cultural Journalism Syllabus - Earnest L. Perry Jr., Ph.D.
• Critical Issues in Journalism  - Ryerson University
• Racial and Gendered Selves in Popular Culture Syllabus - Nancy Wang Yuen

Works In Progress

• Asian Pacific Islander American Primetime Television Report 
  Christina Chin, Meera Deo, Jenny J. Lee, Noriko Milman, and Nancy Yuen, in collaboration with The Asian American Justice Center.
  
  
• Race, Media, and Re-Conceptualizing Regulation and the First Amendment: An Examination of Ethical Codes as Deterrents to the News Media’s Dissemination of Distorted and Misrepresented Information
  Blake D. Morant
  
  
• The Portrayal of Latinos & Latino Issues on Network Television News, 2004 With a Retrospect to 1995
  Federico Subervi, Ph.D.
  
  
• The FCC’S Equal Employment Opportunity Rules: Past, Present and Future
  Angela J. Campbell
  
  
• Casting and Cast-ing: Reconciling Artistic Freedom and Antidiscrimination Norms
  Russell K. Robinson
  
  
• Legislating Diversity: Canada’s Experience With Broadcast Regulation
  John Miller
  
  
• Young Men of Color in the Media: Images and Impacts 
  Robert M. Entman
  
  
• Thinking about race, ideology and structure in the presentation of disastrous events: the case of Katrina.
  Introductory comments by Oscar Gandy for a joint paper by Chul-joo Lee and Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
  
  
• Latinos at the Threshold to the Information Age: Telecommunications Challenges and Opportunities
  Jorge Reina Schement
  
  
• Others’ Disaster: How American Newspapers Covered Hurricane Katrina
  Chul-joo Lee Annenberg and Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
  
  
• Infusing the Curriculum: Making Cross Cultural Journalism a requirement of the next generation
  Earnest L. Perry Jr., Ph.D.
  
  
• Media, Diversity and the Marketplace: Economic Value of the Voices on the Margins
  Basilio G. Monteiro, Ph.D.
  
  
• Media Markets and Localism:Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?
  Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Joel Waldfogel
  
  
• Legitimizing Neglect: Race and Rationality in Conservative News Coverage of Hurricane Katrina
  Hemant Shah
  
  
• Radio Regulation: The Effect of a Prolocalism Agenda on Black Radio
  LaVonda N. Reed-Huff
  
  
• Antitrust Law on the Borderland of Language and Market Definition: Is There a Separate Spanish-Language Radio Market? A Case Study of the Merger of Univision and Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation
  Catherine J.K. Sandoval 
  
  
• Media and the Denial of Race: Blocking Presidential Attempts to Alter the Public Sphere
  Robert M. Entman
  
  
• Commodifying Culture: The Mis-Marketing of Arabs in US Media
  Karin Gwinn Wilkins