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Module Specifications

Current Academic Year 2012 - 2013
Please note that this information is subject to change.

Module Title	Global Communication: Theories & Issues
Module Code	CM507
School	School of Communications
Online Module Resources
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	10
Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

Description

This module explores mass mediated communication at a world level, with a particular emphasis on how news plays an increasingly important role in shaping economic, cultural and political relationships. The importance of historical insights into how international media systems developed is stressed, and how global communication and journalism have an impact on international relations in the contemporary world.

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe key aspects of the structures of global news media and how they evolved over time;
2. Deepen and extend the range of his/her awareness of cultural globalisation and the key concerns emanating from the way information flows through international media systems;
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the formation of public opinion at an international level and debates about the evolution of a global public sphere;
4. Identify the ways in which journalism plays a role in international conflict, war and humanitarian conflict;
5. Critically analyse the role of dominant news sources in agenda-setting and issue-framing in international news.
6. Demonstrate familiarity with theories of media with particular regard to journalism and news cultures.

Workload	Full-time hours per semester
*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Lecture	33	No Description
Lecture	3	No Description
Seminars	22	No Description
Seminars	22	No Description
Seminars	22	No Description
Seminars	22	No Description
Seminars	22	No Description
Seminars	22	No Description
Seminars	22	No Description
Directed learning	50	No Description
Directed learning	50	No Description
Directed learning	50	No Description
Directed learning	50	No Description
Directed learning	50	No Description
Directed learning	50	No Description
Directed learning	50	No Description
On-line learning	25	No Description
On-line learning	25	No Description
On-line learning	25	No Description
On-line learning	25	No Description
On-line learning	25	No Description
On-line learning	25	No Description
On-line learning	25	No Description
Independent learning	45	No Description
Independent learning	45	No Description
Independent learning	45	No Description
Independent learning	45	No Description
Independent learning	45	No Description
Independent learning	45	No Description
Independent learning	45	No Description
Independent learning	75	No Description
Total Workload: 1105

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Global Communication.
Language and the cultural dominance of the Anglophone world. The position of the US in world media flows and the rise of regional news producers. Public opinion formation and the conduct of foreign policy. Agenda-setting and issue framing in international news. The watchdog role of journalism in international conflict. Journalism theories and news cultures. News sources and public relations. The indexation of news to elite discourse. The structure of global news production: news agencies and the role of the foreign press corps. The evolution of global wholesalers in television news and the rise of regional news exchange systems. The structure of dominant news flows and possibilities for contra-flows. Diplomacy and the media: communicating conflict and contemporary concepts of information warfare. Political communication in time of war: public diplomacy and spin. Propaganda, psychological operations and international broadcasting. Xenophobia in the age of global media: media policy and the idea of multicultural society. The rise of Al Jazeera and non-Western perspectives on the world. Civil society, human rights and media responsibility. The Internet and 'virtual cosmopolitanism.'.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Course Work Breakdown
Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date

Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; 1 = A resit is available for all components of the module 2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module 3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Thomas McPhail: 2002, Global Communication, 1, Allyn and Bacon, New York,
Gadi Wolfsfeld: 2004, The Media and the Path to Peace, 1, Cambridge University Press, London,
Philip Taylor: 1997, Global Communications, International Affairs and Media since 1945, 1, Routledge, London,
Piers Robinson: 2002, The CNN Effect: the Myth of News, Foreign Policy and Intervention, Routledge, London,
Pippa Norris: 2003, Framing Terrorism: the News Media, the Government and the Public, Routledge, London,
Philip Knightly: 2004, The First Casualty: the War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq., Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore,
Mark Alleyn: 2003, Global Lies? Propaganda, the UN and World Order, Routledge, London,
Robert Entman: 2004, Projections of Power: Framing News, Public opinion and US Foreign Policy, University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
Christians, C. G., Glaser, T. L., & McQuail, D,: 2009, Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies, University of Illinois Press.,
Preston, Paschal: 2009, Making the News: Journalism and News Cultures in Europe, 1 ed., Routledge London & New York.,
Loffelholz, M., & Weaver, D. (Eds.): 2008, Global Journalism Research: Theories, Methods, Findings, Future. 1 ed., Blackwell.,
McQuail, D.: 2010, Mass Communication Theory, 6th. ed., Sage,