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toc =Short Prompt=

Over the course of the semester, you will build a wiki that covers all of the relevant material from the course readings and lectures. This will help you to retain the information and function as a study guide for the midterm and final exam. In order to do this as group and get credit, you will each write a wiki page and make at least one revision and one addition to someone else’s page.

=Pages=


 * ==Page Creation Tutorial==
 * ==Example Page==
 * ==Practice Page==
 * ==Page Assignments==

// ** Introducing Communication Theory ** //

 * 1) “Thinking About Communication: Deﬁnitions, Models, and Ethics”
 * 2) “Thinking About the Field: Traditions and Contexts” (No Page)
 * 3) “Thinking About Theory and Research” & “As We Begin…”
 * 4) “Symbolic Interaction Theory”
 * 5) “Coordinated Management of Meaning”
 * 6) “Cognitive Dissonance Theory”
 * 7) “Expectancy Violations Theory”
 * 8) “Uncertainty Reduction Theory”
 * 9) “Social Penetration Theory”
 * 10) “Social Exchange Theory” (No Page)
 * 11) “Relational Dialectics Theory” (No Page)
 * 12) “Communication Privacy Management Theory”
 * 13) “Groupthink”
 * 14) “Structuration Theory”
 * 15) “Organizational Culture Theory”
 * 16) “Organizational Information Theory”

===// [|Understanding Media Theory] //===
 * 1) Mass Society and Modernity
 * 2) [|“Schools of thought: developing approaches to media theory”]
 * 3) “The censorship of money: theories of media ownership and control”
 * 4) “Inside the image factory: theories of media organisation and media work”
 * 5) “Telling it as it is? Questions of media representation”
 * 6) “Ways of making you think: theories of ideology and meaning”
 * 7) "Effects, what effects? Power and influence of the media”
 * 8) “The audience strikes back: new audience and reception theory” (No Page)
 * 9) “Living in the global village: new media theory” (No Page)

=Long Prompt=

**Description:** Over the course of the semester, you will collectively build a wiki that covers all of the relevant material from the course readings and lectures. This will help you to retain the information covered in class as well as develop your understanding of the production of digital media. The wiki will function as the __#|study__ guide and review for the midterm and final as we will not do in-class reviews. There are four parts to this assignment: first, you must contribute to the practice page; second, you must create a wiki page or contribute outside research to someone’s page; third, you must revise a wiki page; and finally, you must make an addition to someone else's page. For the first part, you must write some text, insert an image or video, and comment on someone’s posting in the practice page. Feel free to post about whatever you like (as long as it is appropriate for a __#|college course__), but make sure to be positive and helpful when you comment on other people’s posts. You can also do more than the minimum requirement and experiment with the wiki widgets and modules. For the second part, making a wiki page, you will create and format a page on which you will write a two-paragraph summary of the key points of the lecture/chapter. You will also list what you feel are the four key terms and their definitions for that topic. Unfortunately, there are not enough lectures/chapters to assign everyone. Therefore, some of you will instead summarize outside research. For outside research, you will be assigned an article or book (chapter) mentioned related to the assigned chapter and will have to locate, read and summarize it. This summary will go at the bottom of the related chapter. Each instance of outside research will need to cite publication information and link to the material, the article database entry, or the library entry. Because reading and summarizing an outside article is more time consuming and difficult than summarizing a chapter covered in a lecture, students who are assigned outside research will not have to revise a wiki page. For the third part, you will revise another student's wiki page. Since the initial wiki pages will only be two paragraphs long, you will need to expand the summary by at least one paragraph. The revision, however, is not just added information. You must weigh the choices made by the page creator and revise and reorganize their content in light of your perspective on the importance of information. As well, you will need to add other relevant key terms and their definitions. In order not to overburden you, those who create pages in the first half of the course will revise pages in the second, and those who revise pages in the first half will create pages in the second. Finally, you will all add one thing to a wiki page. This addition can be anything that helps to understand the material: quotation, graphic, description of and link to helpful webpage ( ** besides Wikipedia ** ), example (such as a relevant current affair, clip from television show or movie, song lyric, etc.), // and // a description of how that thing relates. Basically, the additional material is something that augments the lecture/chapter and helps you understand an idea or theory. While you are free to make an addition to any webpage you like, I ask that you limit the amount of additional entries to three per webpage. The best way to pick a topic for additions is to simply research a theory or idea that you find interesting. Make sure to link to the original source of the material. In order for the wiki to function as a study guide, wiki pages need to be completed and edited well before the midterm and final. Therefore, with the exception of the initial lectures/chapters, all wiki pages must be created within a week of the day they are covered in class. As well, all revisions must be made within a two weeks of the day they are covered in class. If you receive one of the pages covered within two weeks of the midterm and final you will have to create it in four days and revise it within a week of the midterm or final. Those that we cover the same week as an exam will not receive wiki pages. Additions can be made at any time before the midterm for chapters covered before the midterm. After the midterm no additions receive credit for those chapters. Those of you assigned outside research must post your summary and link within two weeks of the day the lecture/chapter is covered in class.

** Online Discussion: ** Although it is not part of your grade, you are encouraged to engage in online discussion in the wiki. Use the comments tool to suggest revisions, add ideas, and comment on key terms, outside research, additional material, etc. Try to use the wiki as a forum for class discussion and as a way to create community.

** Learning Objectives: ** **Grading Criteria and Weight:** // Practice Page // : Contribute text, image, and a comment to the practice page — 10%
 * 1) Develop writing skills though summarization.
 * 2) Develop revision skills.
 * 3) Practice researching.
 * 4) Collaborate with other students to create a study guide.
 * 5) Develop an online community.
 * 6) Produce digital media.

//Page Creation//: Two-paragraph summary and four key terms and definition — 40% //Page Revision//: Expand summary and add several key terms — 30% //Outside Research//: Summary of outside research with citation and hyperlink — (70%) //Addition//: Something that helps others to understand the material with hyperlink — 20%
 * Due Dates: **

//Practice Page//: By September 14th, 2013. //Page Creation//: Within one week of the lecture. //Page Revision//: Within two weeks of the lecture. //Outside Research//: Within two weeks of the lecture. //Additions//: Anytime before the midterm for lectures/chapters assigned before the midterm. Anytime before the final for all other lectures/chapters. **Late Penalty:** As the punctual completion of these assignments allows others to work on their assignment, late page creation and revision will be penalized by 10% per day for lateness.

=Syllabus=



=Instructor's Email=

mhigh@fordham.edu