{"id":2726,"date":"2021-01-26T02:16:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T02:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/?page_id=2726"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:29:12","slug":"macs101-sp21","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/guides\/macs101-sp21\/","title":{"rendered":"MACS 101 (Carillo-Fuchs, Haugen, Helmke, Irving-Thomas, Malo, Peng)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Library Resources<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_liGa-6vm3o\">MACS 101 Library Research Session recording<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode sh-grid sh-grid-cols-1 md:sh-grid-cols-12 sh-gap-3\"><div class=\"shortcode sh-col-span-6 sh-pb-3\"><\/p>\n<h3>Databases for Scholarly Articles and Trade Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/intermediateredirectforezproxy\">ProQuest One Business<\/a> (for business and labor)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.p.ebscohost.com\/start?key=100.65.189.54_8000_968434126&amp;site=ehost&amp;defaultdb=cms\">Communication Source<\/a> (covers subjects in comm\/media)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/help-services\/find-undergraduate-library-services\/\">Databases: other subject areas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Databases for Magazines and Newspapers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.p.ebscohost.com\/start?key=100.65.189.54_8000_2141392176&amp;site=ehost&amp;defaultdb=asn\">Academic Search Ultimate<\/a> (magazines and academic articles)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/advance.lexis.com\/api\/research\/home?context=1516831&amp;primaryipauth=true\/\">Nexis Uni<\/a> (popular magazines and newspapers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Books<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?vid=01CARLI_UIU:CARLI_UIU&amp;lang=en\">Online Catalog<\/a> (Books at UIUC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?vid=01CARLI_UIU:CARLI_UIU&amp;search_scope=NewDiscoveryNetwork\">I-Share Catalog<\/a> (books at other institutions available to borrow)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Evaluate and Cite Sources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/eval_sources_examples\/\">Evaluating Sources (with examples)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/guides.library.illinois.edu\/c.php?g=348126&amp;p=2346376\">Online Style and Citation Guides<\/a> (Undergraduate Library)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Assignment Instructions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Find two recent news articles that discuss an example of media industry concentration and answer the following questions:\n<ul>\n<li>Which companies were involved?<\/li>\n<li>What elements of the process (production, distribution, exhibition, etc.) were merged?<\/li>\n<li>Is this an example of horizontal and\/or vertical integration?<\/li>\n<li>What effects might this merger have on democratic goals?<\/li>\n<li>Were labor issues discussed in the articles? If so, how did they contribute to our understanding? If not, what could labor issues have added to our understanding of these mergers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/div><div class=\"shortcode sh-col-span-6 sh-pb-3\"><\/p>\n<h3>Suggested Keywords for Searching<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>media companies, media industry, motion picture industry, film industry, internet, journalism, radio, books, advertising, magazine, cable television, TV, television, video distribution, video games, telecommunications, music industry, newspaper industry, publishing industry<\/li>\n<li>Acquisition, antitrust, horizontal integration, media convergence, media monopoly, media ownership, merge, merger, monopoly, vertical integration, democracy, democratization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Merger Examples<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>New York Times \/ Serial Productions (2020)<\/li>\n<li>Gannett \/ Gatehouse Media (2019)<\/li>\n<li>Alden Global Capital \/ Gannett (2019)<\/li>\n<li>Viacom \/ CBS (2019)<\/li>\n<li>Fox \/ Disney (2018)<\/li>\n<li>TMobile \/ Sprint (2018)<\/li>\n<li>IBM \/ Red Hat (2018)<\/li>\n<li>Vodafone Group \/ Liberty Global (2018)<\/li>\n<li>Apple \/ Shazam (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Meredith Corporation \/ Time Inc. (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Tronc Inc. \/ The New York Daily News (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Chicago Sun-Times \/ ST Acquisition Holdings LLC (2017)<\/li>\n<li>AT&amp;T \/ Time Warner (2016)<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft \/ Linkedin (2016)<\/li>\n<li>Disney \/ BAMTech (2016)<\/li>\n<li>Charter Communications \/ Time Warner Cable (2015)<\/li>\n<li>AT&amp;T \/ DirecTV (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Apple \/ Beats by Dre (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Liberty Global \/ Virgin Media (2013)<\/li>\n<li>Sirius XM \/ Pandora (2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>For further assistance, contact <a href=\"mailto:comlibrarian@library.illinois.edu\">comlibrarian@library.illinois.edu<\/a> or use &#8220;Ask a Librarian&#8221; chat on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/\">Communications Library website<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library Resources MACS 101 Library Research Session recording Databases for Scholarly Articles and Trade Publications ProQuest One Business (for business and labor) Communication Source (covers subjects in comm\/media) Databases: other subject areas Databases for Magazines and Newspapers Academic Search Ultimate (magazines and academic articles) Nexis Uni (popular magazines and newspapers) Books Online Catalog (Books at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"parent":88,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2726","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7524,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2726\/revisions\/7524"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}