{"id":3171,"date":"2021-09-07T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/?page_id=3171"},"modified":"2025-12-01T01:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:54:44","slug":"fa21-macs101","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/fa21-macs101\/","title":{"rendered":"MACS 101 (Carillo-Fuchs, Das, Gao, Gu, Knipp, Mukhopadhyay, Peng)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Library Resources<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><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\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Databases for Scholarly Articles and Trade Publications<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/intermediateredirectforezproxy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ProQuest One Business<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (for business and labor)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.p.ebscohost.com\/start?key=100.65.189.54_8000_968434126&amp;site=ehost&amp;defaultdb=cms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Communication Source<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (covers subjects in comm\/media)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/tlas\/instruction\/i-need-to-2\/find-articles-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Databases: other subject areas<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Databases for Magazines and Newspapers<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.p.ebscohost.com\/start?key=100.65.189.54_8000_2141392176&amp;site=ehost&amp;defaultdb=asn\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Academic Search Ultimate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (magazines and academic articles)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/advance.lexis.com\/api\/research\/home?context=1516831&amp;primaryipauth=true\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nexis Uni<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (popular magazines and newspapers)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Books<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?vid=01CARLI_UIU:CARLI_UIU&amp;lang=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Online Catalog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Books at UIUC)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?vid=01CARLI_UIU:CARLI_UIU&amp;search_scope=NewDiscoveryNetwork\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I-Share Catalog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (books at other institutions available to borrow)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>How to Evaluate and Cite Sources<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/eval_sources_examples\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evaluating Sources (with examples)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guides.library.illinois.edu\/c.php?g=348126&amp;p=2346376\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Online Style and Citation Guides<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Undergraduate Library)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Assignment Instructions<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Find two recent news articles that discuss an example of media industry concentration and answer the following questions:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Which companies were involved?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What elements of the process (production, distribution, exhibition, etc.) were merged?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is this an example of horizontal and\/or vertical integration?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What effects might this merger have on democratic goals?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/div><div class=\"shortcode sh-col-span-6 sh-pb-3\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Suggested Keywords for Searching<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acquisition, antitrust, horizontal integration, media convergence, media monopoly, media ownership, merge, merger, monopoly, vertical integration, democracy, democratization<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Merger Examples<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York Times \/ Serial Productions (2020)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gannett \/ Gatehouse Media (2019)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alden Global Capital \/ Gannett (2019)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Viacom \/ CBS (2019)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fox \/ Disney (2018)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TMobile \/ Sprint (2018)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IBM \/ Red Hat (2018)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vodafone Group \/ Liberty Global (2018)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apple \/ Shazam (2017)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meredith Corporation \/ Time Inc. (2017)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tronc Inc. \/ The New York Daily News (2017)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chicago Sun-Times \/ ST Acquisition Holdings LLC (2017)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AT&amp;T \/ Time Warner (2016)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Microsoft \/ Linkedin (2016)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disney \/ BAMTech (2016)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Charter Communications \/ Time Warner Cable (2015)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AT&amp;T \/ DirecTV (2014)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apple \/ Beats by Dre (2014)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liberty Global \/ Virgin Media (2013)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sirius XM \/ Pandora (2013)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/div> <\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>For further assistance, contact comlibrarian@library.illinois.edu or use &#8220;Ask a Librarian&#8221; chat on the<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/\"> <b>Communications Library website<\/b><\/a><b>!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library Resources 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 UIUC) I-Share Catalog (books at other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":728,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3171","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\/728"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7537,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3171\/revisions\/7537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/commedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}