Justice in the Media - Module 4

Module 4: Social Construction of Crime

Module Dates

July 27 - August 2

Required Reading

Surette  -  Chapters 1-4

Video Assignment

Natural Born Killers (or alternative)

Other Assignments

	Journal 4 - Due July 30
	Media Analysis 2 - Due August 2
	Check WebCT for other due dates.

General Links

Please do not treat this as an exhaustive list. Several of these searches are examples and/or starting points. Do your own searches for relevant information. If you find a good site, be sure to include the URL in your journal.

	http://www.hotbot.com/
	http://www.google.com

Internet search engines.

MetaCrawler Query

MetaCrawler Search for "moral panics." This is a good example of the results of a search with this engine. You may want to use MetaCrawler to find information on other articles or topics in this and other modules.

Choosing search engines

Search strategy advice.

Other Suggested Links

http://www.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/ . . .

Yahoo Media Ethics links

http://www.yahoo.com/News/

Yahoo news indices. Many Categories listed.

http://www.fsu.edu/~crimdo/media2.html

Cecil Greek's "Criminal Justice and the Media" links.

http://www.fair.org/

Fairness and Accuracy in Media. This is the Home Page for the organization.

http://www.voicenet.com/~weinsb/contents.html

Postmodern Analysis of Violence and Television - An analysis of Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers in hypertext.

http://www.missouri.edu/~jourvs/apr52.html

Radio News at Mid-Century - the way it was in 1952: content analysis of radio news wires by Vernon Stone with Jack Shelley for RTNDA.

http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/ . . .

Yahoo site with links to film theory and criticism.

http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/strobe/

University based journal of film, television, and new media.