1.  Questions on Media Analysis #1  Lecture: Intent, Reliability and Credibility  Academic Writing  Extra Credit Discussion Forum

3.  Define……..

4.  Examples of Popular Media  Examples of Scholarly Media

5.  Exploring Political Bias with the Bitly Media Map  https://datascience.berkeley.edu/data-media- map-bitly/ https://datascience.berkeley.edu/data-media- map-bitly/  The Media Map: Who’s Reading What and Where  http://www.forbes.com/special- report/2012/media-map.html http://www.forbes.com/special- report/2012/media-map.html  Author: The Interactive Media Map: America’s Most Influential News Outlets  http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2012/0 3/22/forbes-interactive-media-map/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2012/0 3/22/forbes-interactive-media-map/

6.  A Measure of Media Bias  http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/facul ty/groseclose/Media.Bias.8.htm http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/facul ty/groseclose/Media.Bias.8.htm  The problems with the Groseclose/Milyo study of media bias  http://www.brendan- nyhan.com/blog/2005/12/the_problems_ wi.html http://www.brendan- nyhan.com/blog/2005/12/the_problems_ wi.html

7.  Why did the author write it and for who?

8.  Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind  http://www.amazon.com/Left-Turn- Liberal-Distorts-American/dp/1250002761 http://www.amazon.com/Left-Turn- Liberal-Distorts-American/dp/1250002761  Tim Groseclose  http://timgroseclose.wpengine.com/bio graphy/ http://timgroseclose.wpengine.com/bio graphy/

9.  What makes a source credible (believable)?  What makes a source reliable?

10.  Thoughts on Groseclose book on media bias  http://themonkeycage.org/2011/07/thoughts-on-groseclose-book-on- media-bias/ http://themonkeycage.org/2011/07/thoughts-on-groseclose-book-on- media-bias/  Tomorrow’s Bogus Liberal Bias Claim Today  http://prospect.org/article/tomorrows-bogus-liberal-bias-claim-today http://prospect.org/article/tomorrows-bogus-liberal-bias-claim-today  Former fellows at conservative think tanks issued flawed UCLA-led study on media’s “liberal bias”  http://mediamatters.org/research/2005/12/21/former-fellows-at- conservative-think-tanks-issu/134514 http://mediamatters.org/research/2005/12/21/former-fellows-at- conservative-think-tanks-issu/134514  Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias  http://www.gallup.com/poll/149624/majority-continue-distrust-media- perceive-bias.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/149624/majority-continue-distrust-media- perceive-bias.aspx  Americans Regain Some Confidence in Newspapers, TV News  http://www.gallup.com/poll/148250/Americans-Regain-Confidence- Newspapers- News.aspx?utm_source=position2&utm_medium=related&utm_campaig n=tiles http://www.gallup.com/poll/148250/Americans-Regain-Confidence- Newspapers- News.aspx?utm_source=position2&utm_medium=related&utm_campaig n=tiles

11.  To Inform is to Influence  http://toinformistoinfluence.com/2015/05 /04/media-bias/ http://toinformistoinfluence.com/2015/05 /04/media-bias/

12.  No discussion forum this week  Extra Credit: 10 points  Work on Media Analysis #1