MEDIA GLOBALIZATION (CM2006)

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What is globalization? Why study the media? What is the relationship between the media and globalization? What are the consequences of media globalization on our lives and identities? This course critically explores these questions and challenging issues that confront us today. Globalization can be understood as a multi-dimensional, complex process of profound transformations in all spheres – technological, economic, political, social, cultural, intimate and personal. Yet much of the current debates of globalization tend to be concerned with “out there” macro-processes, rather than what is happening “in here,” in the micro-processes of our lives. This course explores both the macro and the micro. It encourages students to develop an enlarged way of thinking – challenging existing paradigms and providing comparative perspectives.

Code: 
CM2006
Name: 
MEDIA GLOBALIZATION
Discipline: 
CM (Communications)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
EN1000 OR EN1010 OR EN2020CCE
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Know and understand the key issues of globalization and the subsequent economic and cultural effects
  2. Distinguish between global, transnational and international communication
  3. Understand the mapping of media globalization – both macro structures and micro processes and understand the Global North/Global South divide between information-rich and information-poor countries in the world.
  4. Identify a diversity of global perspectives – not only dominant/Western views but also marginalized, alternative and counter-hegemonic positions
  5. Consider the relationship between tradition and modernity and the role that globalized media play in their shifting relationship
  6. Understand the different ways of producing news and entertainment across the world
  7. Able to compare, contrast and analyze critically media and media usage from different cultural traditions
  8. Appraise the advantages and disadvantages of the role of English as a global language

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Fall 2024 CM2006A MEDIA GLOBALIZATION
Fall 2024 CM2006B MEDIA GLOBALIZATION
Spring 2025 CM2006A MEDIA GLOBALIZATION
Spring 2025 CM2006B MEDIA GLOBALIZATION

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