Question
The setting – eConference: ‘Media and the War in Iraq’
The ‘keynote address’ of the conference is the video documentary Weapons of Mass Deception
The three topics under study (Topics 5, 6 and 7) will be covered in three ‘sessions’ of this virtual conference, where you should consider the readings for each topic as ‘conference papers’ presented by various learned scholars. Therefore, the sessions are:
Session A: Topic 5, Cultural Studies—Reading 5.1, John Fiske (1992)
Session B: Topic 6, The Toronto School—Textbook Chapter 12, Glenn Sparks (2009) and
Reading 6.1, Marshall McLuhan (1969)
Session C: Topic 7, Critical Theory—Reading 7.1, Lawrence Grossberg (1991) and Reading 7.2, Kevin Kawamoto (2003).
For each of the two sessions you need to present an argument as to whether or not the keynote address (Weapons of Mass Deception) falls under that particular theory. Your argument needs to be justified with reference to elements of the theory as listed in the question (in other words explain key aspects of each theory and how they apply to the keynote address).
Whichever stance you take (it is or is not relevant to the keynote) for each one you need to justify your argument and highlight to the author that you understand what each of the three theories is and how it can be applied to the keynote address. In doing so you should draw from the key literature (the sessions documents A, B & C) to support your analysis and argument.