Department of Social Sciences
Academic Session 2008/9
Semester 2
Global Communications (SSP314 )
Time: Tuesday period 6-7 (2.00 - 3.50)
Place: ZZ105
Module Co-ordinator: James Stanyer
Rm U1.09 Brockington, [email protected]
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Aims
The course aims to:
*Introduce students to the different theoretical perspectives underpinning the study of the global media before examining specific aspects such as, new communication technologies, new social 英國dissertation網movements, global genres, cultural imperialism and hybridity, and resistance to globalization.
*Analyse and summarise existing arguments in the field of communication studies. *Critically evaluate evidence provided in course material.
Objectives
On completion of this module all students will:
*Have a knowledge and understanding of contemporary media developments. Especially the economic, political and social importance of the media, and of political and social ideas that have played a key role in the development and operation of the media.
*Be familiar with the range of theories and concepts such as media and cultural imperialism, globalization, connectivity, hybridity, development, and modernisation.
*Be able to apply these theories to the case studies and be aware of their shortcomings.
Course Structure
Sessions
The course will consist of TEN two hour sessions. The sessions will comprise of some combination of the following: lecture, student presentations, video screening, group work. In addition you are required to engage in private study.
Reading
Where possible I have included some general ntroductory reading on the reading list. As the phrase implies these are readings to introduce you to the topic and are by no means comprehensive. Background reading refers to books that provide some background to the issues being discussed and are a useful resource for essay writing. Students should make an effort to read some of these texts.
Generally speaking there is no one single book that addresses all the issues to be covered in this module. You may however, consider purchasing the following books:
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McPhail T L. (2006) Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders and Trends, 2nd Edn, Oxford: Blackwell.
Thussu, D K. (2006) International Communication, 2nd Edn, London: Hodder Arnold.
Mode of Assessment
Students will be asked to complete TWO WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS. The first assignment is a 1000 wd short essay which will count for 20% of the module mark. The second assignment will be a longer 3-500 wd essay which will count for 80% of the module mark. All essays to be handed-in at the secretaries’ office 4th floor of the Brockington Building.
Assignment one
Deadline: Thursday 12 March 4 pm
Global media, local consumption
The objective of the short assignment is to document and analyze your own media use/consumption habits over the period of three days. You will need to keep an accurate record of the different media you use, the programmes you consume and the context of consumption, providing reasons for the choices you make. Where applicable you should specifically try to determine the origin of output, and or ownership of the related media companies. Summarise your experiences in essay form. To what extent is the media you used and/or output you consumed international in origin? Use the global communications literature to help make sense of your experiences. In what ways are the concepts detailed in the literature helpful in understanding your experiences? You will find the recommended reading in weeks 1, 2 and 3 helpful.#p#分頁標題#e#
Assignment two
Deadline: Thursday 30 April 4 pm
1, Is the concept of cultural imperialism of any value in helping us understand the impact of media products on national cultures in the twenty-first century?
2, How is the global culture industry responding to piracy? To what extent is media piracy a challenge to the power of the industry?
3, How have anti-corporate protest groups sought to tarnish the image of transnational corporations and their products? Have they been successful?
4, ‘The rapid growth of satellite news channels and new media, provide a greater diversity of perspectives in international news than ever before.’ Do you agree?
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5, What challenge does the internet pose for non-democratic nation states? How have such regimes responded?
6, Have new communication technologies empowered new social movements? Discuss with reference to examples.
7, Is there still a need for NWICO in the 21st century?
Marking Criteria
Course work will be evaluated on the criteria below:
• Structure and clarity. The extent to which the essay is logically organised with a coherent argument. There should be an introduction and conclusion, which draws together the strands of the argument. Subheadings are a useful device for signalling the sequence of the essays argument.
• Analysis. The essay should address relevant views and arguments in an informed and critical fashion.
• Relevance. Consider the essay question carefully. The essay should answer the question.
• Evidence. The essay should be informed by a range of the relevant reading.
• Use of literature. The evidence should be used accurately, critically, appropriately and effectively.
• Understanding. The essay should display an awareness of the key issues and an ability to tackle them confidently.
• Presentation. Is the essay legible, grammatical, and fluently written.
• Referencing. All sources should be used properly referenced in the text. A full and accurate bibliography should be included
• Originality. Does the essay draw on a wider than usual range of reading and examples ? Does it show evidence of original research by citing recent examples that have not been mentioned in lectures or in the assigned readings ? Does it make new points about familiar arguments or illuminate core issues in new ways ?
Referencing
The conventions for referencing are in the course handbook and can be downloaded from http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/current/books.html
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SSP314 TIMETABLE
Session 1: Introduction: the global, the national and the local (January 20)
Session 2: Communication flows: Cultural Imperialism and its Critics (January 27)
Part 1: Global Media Industries and the Challenges to Corporate Power
Session 3: The Transnational Media Corporations and Cultural Appropriation (February 3)
Session 4: Media Piracy (February 10)#p#分頁標題#e#
Session 5: Culture Jamming: Challenging Corporate Culture (February 17)
留學生媒體學專業dissertationSession 6: The Challenges to the Global News Giants (February 24)
Part 2: Global Media, Nation States and Transnational Civil Society
Session 7: Transnational Communication and the Challenge to National Sovereignty (March 3)
Session 8: The Internet and Non-Democratic States (March 10)
Session 9: Global protest: transnational activism and the Net (March 17)
Session 10: Alternative Media Futures (March 24)
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Session 1: Introduction: the global, the national, and the local
This session introduces some of the key themes of the course.
General Introductory Reading
Thussu, D K. (2006) International Communication, 2nd Edn, London: Hodder Arnold. Chps1, 2 and 3
McPhail T L. (2006) Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders and Trends, 2nd Edn, Oxford: Blackwell. Chp 1.
Background Reading
Boyd-Barrett, O. (eds) Communications, Media, Globalization and Empire, Eastleigh: John Libbey. Chp 4
Castells, M. (2000) The Rise of the Network Society. (2nd Edn) Oxford: Blackwell. Chp 1, 5, 6.
McChesney, R W (2004) The Political Economy of International Communications, In P Thomas and Z Nain (eds) Who Owns the Media: Global Trends and Local Resistances London: Zed Books.
Held, D. McGrew, A, Goldblatt, D and Perraton, J (1999) Global Transformations. Cambridge: Polity. Pt 7
Thussu, D K. (Ed) (1998) Electronic Empires London: Arnold. Part 1.
Tomlinson, (1999) Globalization and Culture. Cambridge: Polity. Chp 1
Globalization and the international order
Ikenberry G J. (2007) Globalization as American Hegemony, In Held, D. and McGrew, A, (eds) Globalization Theory. Cambridge: Polity.
Mosley, L (2007) The Political Economy of Globalisation, In Held, D. and McGrew, A, (eds) Globalization Theory. Cambridge: Polity.
Balnaves, M. and Donald, J. (2001) Global Media Atlas London: British Film Institute.
Session 2: Communication flows: Cultural Imperialism and its Critics
This session critically examines cultural impact of mediated products. What effect do ‘western’ media products have on national cultures? The session explores the arguments that globalization leads to a ‘Disneyisation’ of culture and the counter arguments that point to evidence of cultural hybridity.
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General Introductory Reading
McPhail T L. (2006) Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders and Trends, 2nd Edn, Oxford: Blackwell. Chp 13
Thussu, D K. (2006) International Communication, 2nd Edn, London: Hodder Arnold. Chp 5
Thussu, D K. (2006) (ed) Media on the Move. London Routledge Pt 1
Stevenson, N. (1999) Transformation of the Media. Harlow: Longman. Chp 5.
Background Reading for Course-Work
Additional Introductory
Artz, L and Kamalipour, Y R (2007) The Media Globe. Rowman and Littlefield. See various chps#p#分頁標題#e#
Barker, C. (1997) Global Television: An Introduction Oxford: Blackwell Chps 1, 4 ,5 and 6.
Chalaby, J K. (ed) Transnational Television Worldwide. London: I B Tarus Chps 5-9 10
Criticisms
Tomlinson, J. (1997) ‘Cultural Globalization and Cultural Imperialism’, in Mohammadi, A. (Ed.) International Communication and Globalization London: Sage
OR, Tomlinson, J. (1997) Internationalism, Globalization and Cultural Imperialism, In Thompson, K. (Ed) Media and Cultural Regulation. London: Sage.
Tomlinson, J. (1999) Globalization and Culture Cambridge: Polity. Chps 1 and 3.
Morley, D. (2006) Globalization and Cultural Imperialism. In Curran, J and Morley, D. (eds) Media and Cultural Theory. London: Routledge
Mohammadi, A. (1995) ‘Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Identity’, in J Downing et al (Eds.), Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction London: Sage.
Tunstall, J. 2008) The Media were American. Oxford: Oxford University Press. See Chps 7 and 8
Alternatives
Bryman, A. (2004) Disneyisation London: Arnold
Ritzer, G (1998) McDonaldisation Thesis: Explorations and Extensions London: Sage
Sinclair, J. et al. (1997). Peripheral Vision, In New Patterns of
Global Television. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Introduction and Chp 1.
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Straubhaar, J. D. (1997) ‘Distinguishing the Global, Regional and National Levels of World Television’ in Sreberny-Mohammadi, A. et al., (Eds.), Media in Global Context: A Reader London: Arnold. Chp 24.
Straubhaar, J. D. (2008) World Television. London: Sage
Examples
French, D. (2000) Television in contemporary Asia. See various Chps.
Kitley, P. (2000) Television, nation, and culture in Indonesia. See various Chps.
Moran, A. (2003) Television across Asia :TV industries, programme formats and globalisation. See various chps.
Tunstall, J. 2008) The Media were American. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pt 3 and 4.
Classic Cultural Imperialism texts
Katz, E. and Wedell, G. (1977) Broadcasting in the Third World: Promise and Performance Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Hamelink, C. (1994). The Politics of World Communication. London: Sage. Chp 1.
Nordenstreng, K. and Varis, T. (1974) Television Traffic: a one-way street? (Paris: UNESCO)
Schiller, H. (1992, 2nd Ed.) Mass Communication and American Empire (Boulder, CO: Westview) pp 1-44.
Tunstall, J. (1994, 2nd Ed.) The Media are American (Constable, 1994) Chps 1 and 2.
Varis, T. (1985) International Flow of Television Programmes (Paris: UNESCO)
UNESCO (2000) Culture, Trade and Globalisation (Paris: UNESCO)
Contemporary Cultural Imperialism
Elasmar, M G. (2003) (eds) The Impact of Internet Television. Mahwah, NJ: See various Chps esp. 1,2,3 and 10
Jin D Y (2007) Reinterpretation of Cultural Imperialism. Media, Culture and Society, 29(5): 755-771
Sparks, C (2007) Globalization Mass Media and Development. London: Sage#p#分頁標題#e#
Thussu, D. (Ed) (1998) Electronic Empires London: Arnold See chp by O Boyd Barrett
Cultural globalization
Sassen, S. (1998) Globalization and its Discontents New York: New Press. Chp 9.
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Robertson, R. (1995). Glocalization: Time-space and homogeneity and heterogeneity. In Featherstone, M. (Ed) Global Modernities. London: Sage.
Lull, J. (2006) The Push and Pull of Global Culture. In Curran, J and Morley, D. (eds) Media and Cultural Theory. London: Routledge
Featherstone, M. (1990) (Ed) Global Culture. London: Sage. See chapters by Robertson, Wallerstein and Smith.
Hybridity
Pieterse, J N (2004) Globalization and Culture. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Ch 3.
Shim, D (2006) Hybridity and the Rise of Korean Popular Culture in Asia. Media Culture and Society, 28 (1): 25-44
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Part 1: Global Media Industries and Challenges to Corporate Power
Session 3: The Transnational Media Corporations and Cultural Appropriation
This session explores the nature of the global media economy in the 21st century. It introduces students to the main global media players. It outlines their activities and gives a brief overview of some recent developments in terms of concentration and convergence between old media and new. It also considers the importance of intellectual property to corporations.
General Introductory Reading
Thussu, D K. (2006) International Communication, 2nd Edn, London: Hodder Arnold. Chp 4.
McPhail T L. (2006) Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders and Trends, 2nd Edn, Oxford: Blackwell. Chp 3 and 5
Herman, E. S. and McChesney, R. W. (1997) The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism. London: Cassell. Chps 3-6
Thussu, D K. (ed) (1998) Electronic Empires London: Arnold. Chps 1 and 2.
Background Reading for Course-Work
On media transnationals
Boyd-Barrett, O. (2006) (eds) Communications, Media, Globalization and Empire, Eastleigh: John Libbey. Chps 1 and 4
Cooper-Chen, A. (ed) Global Entertainment Media. Mahwah NJ: LEA. See Parts, 3 and 4.
Dean, A. (1998) Megamedia (Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield)
Gershon, R A. (2005) The Transnational: Media Coporations, International TV Trade and Entertainment Flows. In A Cooper-Chen (ed) Global Entertainment Media. Mahwah NJ: LEA.
Jin , DY (2008) Neo-liberal Restructuring of the global communication System. Media, Culture and Society, 30(3): 357-373
McChesney, R. W., Meiksins, E. and Foster, J B. (1998) (eds) Capitalism and the Information Age New York: Monthly Review Press. See various chps.
Maxwell, R. (1997) ‘International Communication: The Control of Difference and the Global Market’, in Mohammadi, A. (Ed.) International Communication and Globalization London: Sage.
Straubhaar, J. D. (2008) World Television. London: Sage
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Tuntsall, J (2008) The Media Were American. New York: Oxford UP. Chp 5
On intellectual property
Goldstein, P. (2003) Copyrights Highway. Stanford: Stanford University Press#p#分頁標題#e#
Litman, J. (2001) Digital Copyright. London: Prometheus. See various Chps
Unesco (2005) Copyright, Piracy and the Culture Industries. Paris Unesco http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/files/30635/11453669661copyright_article10.04.06.pdf/copyright_article10.04.06.pdf
On cultural appropriation
McLeod, K. (2001) Owning Culture. New York: Peter Lang. See chp1 and various others
Coombe, R J. (1998) The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. See Chp 1, 3 and Others
Chan, J M and B T McIntyre (eds) In Search of Boundaries: Communication, Nation-States and Cultural Identities. Westport, CT: Ablex. See chp by Chan.
Wange, G and Yueh-yu Yeh, E (2005) Globalization and Hybridization in Cultural Products. International Journal of Cultural Studies 9:347-357
Session 4: Media Piracy
英國dissertation網This session examines the issue of media piracy. It seeks to ascertain the challenge it posses for transnational corporations and how they are responding copy-right infringement.
General Introductory Reading
McPhail T L. (2006) Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders and Trends, 2nd Edn, Oxford: Blackwell. Esp. Chp 12, esp pp.299-306
Thussu, D K. (2006) International Communication, 2nd Edn, London: Hodder Arnold. Chp 7, esp. pp. 223-227.
Pang, L. (2005) Cultural control and globalization in Asia :copyright, piracy, and cinema London: Routledge. See various chps.
Background Reading for Course-Work
ACurrah, A. (2006) Hollywood versus the Internet: the media and entertainment industries in a digital and networked economy. J. Economic Geography, August 1, 2006; 6(4): 439 - 468.
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Gillespie, T. (2007) Wired shut: copyright and the shape of digital culture . See various chps.
Marshall, L. (2004) The effects of Priacy Upon the Music Industry. Media Culture and Society 26(2):163-81.
Mason, M. (2008) The Pirates’ Dilemma. Allen Lane. See chp 2.
E. Mickiewicz (2001) Piracy, Policy, and Russia's Emerging Media Market The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 6, 2, 30-51
Strangelove, M. (2005) Empire of Mind. Toronto: University of Toronto Press See chp 2.
Wang, S. (2003) Framing piracy :globalization and film distribution in greater China. See various chps.
Yar, M. (2005) The global ‘epidemic’ of movie ‘piracy’: crime-wave or social construction? Media, Culture & Society, 27, 5, 677-696
Online resources
Motion Picture Association (2005) The Cost of Movie Piracy, http://mpaa.org/researchStatistics.asp
International Federation Of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) (2006) The Recording Industry 2006 Piracy Report, http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/piracy-report2006.pdf
British Phonographic Industry (2006) Piracy in Britain
http://www.bpi.co.uk/pdf/BPI_UK_Commercial_Music_Piracy.pdf
British Phonographic Industry, anti-piracy web page. http://www.bpi.co.uk/index.asp?Page=piracy/content_file_76.shtml#p#分頁標題#e#
Session 5: Culture Jamming: Challenging Corporate Culture
This lecture looks at campaigns waged against transnational corporations by a range of anti-capitalist groups. It examines the phenomena of culture jamming as well mass protests organised around the world. It explores the strategies such groups employ and whether the internet is creating greater opportunities to readdress imbalances.
Introductory Reading
Bennett, W L. (2004) Branded Political Communication, In Micheletti. M., et al. (eds) Politics, Products and Markets: Exploring Political Consumerism Past Present and Future. London: Transaction Books Also at http://depts.washington.edu/gcp/pdf/brandpolcom.pdf
Klein, N. (2000) No Logo, London: Flamingo. See Chps 12-15, 18
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McCaughey, M and Ayers, J M (2003) (eds) Cyberactivism, London: Routledge. See part 1.
Additional Reading
Bennett, W L. (2003) Lifestyle Politics and Citizen-Consumers: Identity, Communication and Political Action in Late Modern Societies. In Corner, J. and Pels, D. (eds.) Media and the Restyling of Politics, London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bennett, W L. (2003) Communicating Global Activism. Information, Communication and Society, 6 (2): 143-168.
V. Carducci (2006) Culture Jamming: A Sociological Perspective Journal of Consumer Culture 6: 116-138
Castells, M. (1997) The Power of Identity Vol 2 Oxford: Blackwells chp 2
Donk, W van de, Loader, B D., Nixon, P G. and Rucht, D (2004) (eds) Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements. London: Routledge. See intro various chps
Duncombe, S. (2002) The Cultural Resistance Reader. London: Verso. See various chps
Peretti, M. with Micheletti. M. (2004) The Nike Swetshop Email, In Micheletti. M., et al. (eds) Politics, Products and Markets: Exploring Political Consumerism Past Present and Future. London: Transaction Books
Strangelove, M. (2005) Empire of Mind. Toronto: University of Toronto Press See chp 4.
Online resources
See Venice Unchained http://www.veniceunchained.org/pr/ak/info/default.asp
Center for communication and civic engagement – global citizens project - http://depts.washington.edu/gcp/
A culture jamming Sites
http://www.culture-jamming.de/communicationguerilla.html
http://www.adbusters.org/home/
Session 6: The Challenges to Global News Giants
This session explores the growth of the global news industry. To what extent do ‘western’ transnational news providers still dominate global news provision? Are they being challenged by new news providers?
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Introductory Reading
McPhail T L. (2006) Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders and Trends, 2nd Edn, Oxford: Blackwell. Esp. Chp 7, also 6 and 8
Thussu, D K. (2006) International Communication, 2nd Edn, London: Hodder Arnold. Chs 1,4,6
Background Reading for Course-Work
Boyd Barrett, O. (1997) Global News Wholesalers as Agents of Globalization, in Sreberny-Mohammadi, A et al (eds.) Media in Global Context, London: Arnold.#p#分頁標題#e#
Boyd-Barrett, O. (2006) (eds) Communications, Media, Globalization and Empire, Eastleigh: John Libbey. Chp 7
Ganizalez, A and Lugo-Coando, J. (2008) Beyond National Media Systems. In Lugo-Coando, J. (eds) The Media in Latin America. Buckingham: The Open University Press.
Hachten, W A. and Scotton, J F. (2002) The World News Prism Oxford: Blackwell. Chps 3-6
Hjarvard, S. (2001) Globalization and the Role of News Media. In Hjarvard, S. (ed) News in Globalized Society. Goteborg: Nordicom
Musa, M. (1990) News Agencies, Transnationalization and the New Order, in Media, Culture and Society Vol. 12 pp 325-342
Painter, J (2006) A Boom in Counter-Hegemonic News: A Case Study of Telesur. http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/Publications/fellows__papers/James_Painter.pdf
Painter, J (2008) Counter-Hegemonic News. Oxford: RISJ. see http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/Publications/Counter-Hegemonic_News.pdf
Paterson, S. (1997) Global Television News Services in Sreberny-Mohammadi, A et al (eds.) Media in Global Context London: Arnold.
Paterson, C. (2001) Media Imperialism Revisited. In Hjarvard, S. (ed) News in Globalized Society. Goteborg: Nordicom
Paterson, C. (2006) News Agency Dominance in International News on the Internet. Papers in International and Global Communication, No 01/06, Centre for International Communications Research, University of Leeds. Available online
Thussu, D K. (2006) (ed) Media on the Move. London Routledge Chps 7 and 11
Tuntsall, J (2008) The Media Were American. New York: Oxford UP. Chp 6
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Part 2: Global Media, Nation States and Transnational Civil Society
Session 7: Transnational Communication and the Challenge to National Sovereignty
This lecture looks at the some of the challenges nation states face from transnational communication networks such as satellite and the internet. It in particular focuses on the responses of nation states to these challenges and what it means for citizens.
General Introductory Reading
Price, M E. (2002) The Media and Sovereignty, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chps 1and 2
Price, M E. (2002) Satellite Broadcasting as Trade Routes in the Sky. In J M Chan and B T McIntyre (eds) In Search of Boundaries: Communication, Nation-States and Cultural Identities. Westport, CT: Ablex.
Background Reading for Course-Work
Castells, M. (2004) The Power of Identity. (2nd Edn) Oxford: Blackwell. Chp 5.
Everard, J. (2000) Virtual States: the Internet and the Boundaries of the Nation State. London: Routledge
Held, D. (2005) National Culture, the Globalization of Communications, and the Bounded Political Community. In Bonner, S E. (ed) Planetary Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
Held, D. McGrew, A, Goldblatt, D and Perraton, J (1999) Global Transformations. Cambridge: Polity. Pt 1
Lee, P S N. (2002) Three Processes of Dissolving Boundaries. In J M Chan and B T McIntyre (eds) In Search of Boundaries: Communication, Nation-States and Cultural Identities. Westport, CT: Ablex.#p#分頁標題#e#
Sinclair, J. Harrison, M. (2004) Globalisation Nation and Television in Asia: The Case of India and China, Television and New Media, 5, 1: 41-54.
Straubhaar, J (2002) Reasserting National Television and National Identity Against the Global. In J M Chan and B T McIntyre (eds) In Search of Boundaries: Communication, Nation-States and Cultural Identities. Westport, CT: Ablex.
Thomas, A O (2005) Imagi-nations and borderless television :media, culture and politics across Asia. See various chps
Page, D. (2001) Satellites over South Asia: broadcasting, culture and the public interest. See various chps.
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Melkote, S. R. (1998) International satellite broadcasting in South Asia :political, economic, and cultural implication. See various chps.
Media de-regulation in developed countries
Boyd-Barrett, O. (2006) (eds) Communications, Media, Globalization and Empire, Eastleigh: John Libbey. Chps 5 and 6
Sreberny-Mohammadi et al. (1997) The Media in the Global Context. London: Edward Arnold. See in particular Section 4.
Curran, J amd Park, M-J. (2000) (eds) De-Westernizing Media Studies London: Routledge Chps 2-4.
Price, M E, et al. (2002) (eds) Media Reform. London: Routledge chps 2 and 4
Session 8: The internet and non-democratic states
This session explores the impact of the emergence and spread of the internet on authoritarian states. To what extent does the internet undermine the non-democratic states control over the means of communication? How have these states responded? Has it been effective?
General Introductory Reading
Boas, T C. and Kalathil, S. (2001) The Internet and State Control in Authoritarian Regimes: China, Cuba and the Counterrevolution. Working Papers, Information Revolution and World Politics Project, Carnegies Endowment for International Peace. http://www.ceip.org Available Online. (see also Kalathil, S. and Boas, T C. Open Networks, Closed Regimes. Brookings. On order)
Background Reading for Course-Work
Ferguson, J M (2008) Revolutinonary Scripts in K Sen and T Lee (eds) Political Regimes and the Media in Asia. London: Routledge
George, C. (2006) Contentious Journalism and the Internet. Singapore: Singapore University Press
Hudson-Rodd, N. (2008) Not a Rice Easting Robot, in K Sen and T Lee (eds) Political Regimes and the Media in Asia. London: Routledge
Kulikova, S V. and Perlmutter, D D. (2007) Blogging Down the Dictator? The Kyrgyz Revolution and Samizdat Websites. International Communication Gazette, 69,(1):29-50. Available online.
Oates, S. (2003) Beacon for Democracy or Tool for Oppression? Fitting the Internet into Political Communication Models in Non Free States. A paper presented to the
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Joint Session of Workshops, ECPR, Edinburgh 28.3 to 2.4.03. http://www.ecpr.org Available Online
Rheingold, H. (2002) Smart Mobs. New York: Basic Books. Chp 7.
Thussu, D K. (2006) (ed) Media on the Move. London Routledge Chp 14
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Amnesty International, (2002) State Control of the Internet in China, November. AI Index: ASA 17/007/2002. Available from the Amnesty website.
Chase, M S, and Mulvenon, J C. (2002) You have Got Dissent! Santa Monica, CA: RAND.
Diebert, R J. (2002) Dark Guests and Great Firewalls: The Internet and Chinese Security Policy. Journal of Social Issues 58(1) 143-159. Available Online
Lacharite, J. (2002) Electronic Decentralisation in China: A Critical Analysis of Internet Filtering Policies in the PRC. Australian Journal of Political Science, 37 (2):333-346
Taubman, G (1998) A Not-So World Wide Web: The Internet, China, and the Challenges to Non-democratic Rule. Political Communication, 15 (2):255-272 Available Online
Wu, X. (2005) Red Net Over China: China’s New Online Media Order and Its Implications. Asian Journal of Communication 15 (2):215-227.
Middle East
Alavi, N (2005) We Are Iran London: Portobello Books.
Eickelman, D F (2003) Communication and Control in the Middle East: Publication and Its Discontents. Eickelman, D F. and Anderson J W. (eds) New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere. 2nd Edn, Bloomington, IA: Indiana University Press
Norton, A R. (2003) The New Media, Civic Pluralism, and the Struggle for Political Reform. In Eickelman, D F. and Anderson J W. (eds) New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere. 2nd Edn, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Rahimi, B. (2003) Cyberdissent: The Internet in Revolutionary Iran. Middle East Review of International Affairs, 7(3) 101-115. Available Online
Wheeler, D L. (2006) The Internet in the Middle East. Albany: SUNY Press
On affinity networks and pressure
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Keck, M E. and Sikkink, K. (1998) Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Avni, R. (2006) Mobilizing Hope: Beyond the Shame Based Model in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict . American Anthropologist 108 (1): 205-214
Gregory, S. (2006) Transnational Story Telling: Human Rights, WITNESS and Video Advocacy. American Anthropologist 108 (1): 195-204.
Khagram, S., Riker, J V. and Sikkink, K. (2002) From Santiago to Seattle: Transnational Advocacy Groups Restructuring World Politics. In S. Khagram, J V. Riker and K. Sikkink (eds) Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks and Norms. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Kumar, C. (2000) Transnational Networks and Campaigns for Democracy. In A M. Florini (ed) The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Session 9: Global protest: transnational activism and the Net
This session examines the transnational activism. It looks at the development of protest networks and the use of the internet by a range of new social movements. It explores the strategies such groups employ and whether the internet is creating greater opportunities for the exercise of political voice.#p#分頁標題#e#
General Introductory Reading
Cohen, R., & Rai, S. (Eds.). (2000). Global social movements. London: Athlone. Chps 1 and 2
Castells, M. (1997) The Power of Identity Vol 2 Oxford: Blackwells chp 2, 3, 4
Donk, W van de, Loader, B D., Nixon, P G. and Rucht, D (2004) (eds) Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements. London: Routledge. See intro various chps
Background Reading for Course-Work
Protest and the internet
Ayres, J. M. (1999) From Streets to the Internet, in Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 56. Philadelphia.
Arquilla, J. and Ronfeldt, D. (2001) Networks and Netwars. Santa Monica, CA: Rand. See intro and various chps.
Bennett, W Lance. (2003) Communicating Global Activism. Information, Communication and Society, 6 (2): 143-168. Available online
Castells, M (2001) The Internet Galaxy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chp 5
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Chadwick, A. 2006: Internet Politics. New York: Oxford University Press. Ch 6.
Jong W de., Shaw, M. and Stammers, N. (2004) (eds) Global Activism, Global Media. London: Pluto Press. See Intro and various chps
McCaughey, M and Ayers, J M (2003) (eds) Cyberactivism, London: Routledge. See part 1.
Norris, P. (2002) Democratic Phoenix. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Chp 10
Sreberny, A. and Braman, S. (1996) (eds) Globalization, Communication and Transnational Civil Society London and New Jersey: Hampton Press. Ch 10.
Kramer, J. and Kramarae, C. (2000) Women's Political Webs: Global Electronic Networks, in Sreberny, A and van Zoonen, L. (eds) Gender, Politics and Communication London and New Jersey: Hampton Press.
For texts on new politics and new social movements see:
Amore, L. (2005) (ed) The Global Resistance Reader London: Routledge Pts 2 and 3 See various Chps.
Bagguley, P and Hearn, J. (1999) (eds) Transforming Politics: Power and Resistance Basingstoke: Macmillan. Chs 5 and 8.
Downing, J D H. (2001) Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Pt 2.
Keane, J. and Mier, P. (1989) Nomads of the Present London: Hutchinson Radius.
Melucci, A (1996) Challenging Codes: collective action in the information age, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Muller-Rommel, F. (1990) New Political Movements and New Politics: Parties in Western Europe, in Dalton, R. J. and Kuechler, M. (eds.) Challenging the Political Order: New Social and Political Movements in Western Democracies Cambridge: Polity.
Zurn, M. and Walter, G. (eds) Globalizing Interests: Pressure Groups and De-Nationalization. Albany: SUNY Press. See various Chps.
Session 10: Alternative Media Futures
In the 1970s and early 80s there was a call by African, Latin American and Asian countries for a new world information and communications order (NWICO). This session examines the debate that occurred, and looks at current discontents and debates in Unesco. Can fundamental inequalities in the global communication system be addressed?#p#分頁標題#e#
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General Introductory Reading
McPhail T L. (2006) Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders and Trends, 2nd Edn, Oxford: Blackwell. Chp 10
Thussu, D. (2006) International Communication London: Arnold. Chp 3.
Background Reading for Course-Work
Andersen, R and Strate, L (2000) (eds) Critical Studies in Media Commercialism Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pt 6.
Barber, B. (1996) Jihad versus McWorld. New York: Ballantine Books.
OR Barber, B. (1992) Jihad versus McWorld. Reprint from: The Atlantic Monthly, Vol.259, No.3, 1992, pp.53-55; 58-63.
Thussu, D. (2006) (eds) Media on the Move. London Routledge. See Pt 2 and Pt 3 on none western media
NWICO
MacBride Commission (1980) Many Voices, One World London: Kogan Page (NB see also MacBride Commission (1987) ‘Many Voices, One World’ in Boyd-Barrett, O. and Braham, P. Media, Knowledge and Power London: Croom Helm)
Hamelink, C. (1997) ‘MacBride with Hindsight’, in Golding, P. and Harris, P. (Eds.) Beyond Cultural Imperialism London: Sage.
Roach, C. (1990) ‘The Movement for a New World Information and Communication Order: A second wave?’ in Media Culture and Society Vol 12, N 2, pp 283-307.
Roach, C. (1997) ‘The Western World and the NWICO: United they Stand’, in Golding, P. and Harris, P. (Eds.) Beyond Cultural Imperialism London: Sage.
Thomas, P. (1997) ‘An Inclusive NWICO’, in Golding , P. and Harris, P. (Eds.) Beyond Cultural Imperialism London: Sage.
留學生dissertation網Vincent, R. C. (1997) The Future for the Debate: Setting an Agenda for a NWICO, ten proposals’, in Golding, P. and Harris, P. (Eds.) Beyond Cultural Imperialism London: Sage.
The Global Alliance for Cultural diversity http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24468&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
World Summit on the Information Society http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html or http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1543&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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