NB: This is a preliminary schedule.
· Some screenings and readings listed here might be subjected to change
· The use of laptop computers and other electronic devices during class is NOT permitted.
Week 1 (2 – 4 Sept)
Course Overview and introduction. The historical context of media globalization Readings: Thussu, ch.1
Week 2 (9 – 11 Sept)
Introduction to media theory
Readings: Thussu, ch. 2; James Lull, Hegemony; Stuart Hall, Cultural Studies and its theoretical legacy; Encoding and Decoding
Week 3 (16 – 18 Sept)
The different approaches to the study of global communications.
Readings: Thussu ch.2; Edward Said Orientalism (excerpt); Arjun Appadurai, Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy; Manuel Castells, Globalization and Identity; John Tomlinson, Globalization and Cultural Identity
In -class quiz
Week 4 (23 – 25 – 26 Sept)
Intro: globalization and identity.
Ideology, Media and Globalization: screening Goodbye Lenin (Wolfgang Becker, 2003)
Week 5 (30 Sept – 2 Oct)
Assignment due
Globalization and identity politics. The global communications infrastructure.
Readings: Benjamin Barber, Jihad Vs McWorld. Frantz Fanon, This is the Voice of Algeria.
Intro: the global communication infrastructure (ch 3 pp 66 – 71 & 86-97)
Week 6 (7 – 9 Oct)
The Global Communications infrastructure part II. Intro: the Local and the Global in Media culture
Readings: Thussu, ch. 4 pp 98-99 & 109-144, ch. 5
Week 7 (14 – 16 Oct)
Review and Mid Term Exam
Week 8 (21 – 23 Oct)
The Local and The Global in Media Culture. Case studies.
Readings: Thussu, ch. 5; Marwan Kraidy, Reality TV in the Arab World; Amir Hetsroni, Globalization and knowledge hierarchy through the eyes of a quiz show; James Watson, McDonald’s in Hong Kong
Week 9 (28 – 30 Oct)
Intro counter-flows
Screening Afghan Star (Havana Marking, 2009)
Readings: Thussu, ch. 6
Week 10 (4 – 6 Nov)
Assignment due
The Al Jazeera Case study + Bollywood
Readings: Thussu, ch. 6; Mohamed Zayani: ‘Introduction –Al Jazeera and the Vicissitudes of the New Arab Mediascape’; Nitin Govil, Bollywood and the Frictions of Global Mobility
Week 11 (11 – 13 Nov)
Bollywood in Nigeria & Nollywood cinema. Korean Media in a global context
Readings: Thussu, ch. 6; Brian Larkin, Itineraries of Indian cinema: African Videos, Bollywood and Global Media; Zina Saro-Wiva, No Going Back; Youna Kim, The Rising East Asian ‘Wave’: Korean Media Go Global’; David Morley, Cultural Imperialism Reconsidered;
Week 12 (18 – 20 Nov)
Cultures of diaspora. Alternative Media and Diaspora in Europe.
Readings: Roza Tsagarousianou, Rethinking the concept of diaspora; Naomi Sakr, Diversity and Diaspora in Europe; Hamid Naficy, The Making of Exile Culture. Iranian Television in Los Angeles
Myra Georgiou & Roger Silverstone, Diasporas and contra-flows beyond nation-centrism (in Thussu, Media on the Move)
quiz
Week 13 (25 Nov)
Globalization and the Internet revolution
Week 14 (2 – 4 Dec)
Wrap Up and Review