Task One: Watch this video lecture.

Task Two: Read Sunstein, Republic.com 2.0, Chapters 1,2 & 9; Iyengar & Hahn, “Red Media, Blue Media: Evidence of Ideological Selectivity in Media Use,” Gentzkow and Shapiro, “Ideological Segregation Online and Offline”  Available on Blackboard.  Note that chapter 9 has been added to the listed material on the syllabus.

Task Three: Read this recent NYTimes article that argues against the view that we live in “information cocoons.”

Task Four: Comment on this post.  Respond to two  of your classmates’ posts.