International relations

Communication & the British Empire

Communication and propaganda

World order after WWII

Cold War Division of the World (2 blocs)

Third World Countries

Communication and Development

Colonialism

Post-colonialism & critique to colonialism

UNESCO

Hallin and Mancini Three Models & their characteristics

Nation as unit of analysis for international communication

Path Dependency (Media systems)

Modernity and the West

Modernization theory

Cultural Imperialism and Media Imperialism

Mass Media, modernization & development

Media and cultural products (exporters of)

Globalization: culture and media flows

Globalization and national media systems

Changing economic systems after end of Cold War:

· Post-colonial Developmentalism

· Neoliberalism (Free market).

Democracy beyond the Western concept

Importance of Media for social justice

Nyaya system of transnational social justice

Global/international Public Sphere

Clash of Civilizations paradigm (Samuel Huntington)

Importance of Al-Jazeera as a Pan-Arab news network

International versus Transnational

Cultural homogenization/Cultural Pluralism

Modernization as a concept applied to children

Coca-colonization

Core nations, semi-peripheral, peripheral

Hegemon (hegemon country)

Newsworthiness (Segev&Menahem, de Beer).

Post-Colonial critique to globalization (McMillin Ch. 5).

Internalization of colonization (Fanon) McMillin

Hybridity, liminality, counternarratives (McMillin).

Neoliberalism

“Bad News Syndrome” media coverage of Africa

Dark Continent

Regime Theory & Global News Flow Theory (de Beer)

3 phases of globalization (de Beer)

Coverage of peripheral nations by Western media

Regions of the world least covered by Western media

Advocacy journalism

Pink Wave (Latin America)

Televisa and Globo as main TV networks in Latin America (telenovelas as cultural products)

Media in Latin America (focus on Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela as examples).

Transitions to democracy (after fall of Soviet Union) “transitology” (Colin Sparks)

Elite Continuity & Elite renewal

Analyze transition to democracy in S. Africa and elite continuity

Role of the ANC (African National Congress) South Africa transition to Democracy (Colin Sparks)

Role of Chinese government controlling media

“Anaconda in the Chandelier” metaphor (Hassid).

Self-censorship in China

Copyright Industries and Intellectual Property

Motion Picture Association of America

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Copyright industries and nation-states (nationalization). Read Shujen Wang.

Informational world economy (Manuel Castells)

Globalization of cultural products

Piracy as resistance

Idea of End of History (Francis Fukuyama)

Identity, Essentialism, (Siapera)

Diaspora, Double Consciousness (Siapera)

Right to communicate (Siapera)

Functions of Minority Media

Diasporic and Minority media (Siapera)

Public Sphericules (Shawn Powers & Eugenia Siapera)

Mainstream Public Sphere (Siapera)

Mainstream media

Definition of Framing (Boyd-Barrett)

Definition of Re-Framing (Boyd-Barrett)

Definition of Agenda Setting Theory

Alternative media sites

Kinds of cultural change: Pattern maintaining, flexibility, culturally disruptive change (Crothers)

American Popular Culture (Americanization)-Crothers