(800-1000 reading pages)
Major Books
1. Hesmondhalgh, D (2007) The Cultural Industries. London: Sage (266 pages)
2. Hjarvard, Stig (ed.) Media in a Globalised Society. Copenhagen: Museum Tisculanum Press (289 pages)
3. Curran, J & M. Gurevitch (eds.) (2005) Mass Media and Society. 4th Edition. London: Hodder Arnold (all chapters expect chapters 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 13, 19, 20) (254pages)
Total: 809
Compile additional 200 pages from the following supplementary literature
Books
1. Held, D & A. McGrew (2002) Globalisation/Anti-Globalisation. Cambridge: Polity Press
2. Collins, R (2002) Media and Identity in Contemporary Europe: Consequences of Global Convergence. Bristol & Portland: Intellect Books.
3. Van Binsbergen, W & Van Dijk (eds.) (2004) Situating Globality: African Agency in the Appropriation of Global Culture: Lieden & Boston: Brill
4. Castells, M (2000) The Rise of the Network Society. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume 1. chapters 2 & 3
5. Van Zoonen, Liesbet (2004) Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Popular Culture Converge. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
6. Hemer, Oscar & Thomas Tufte (eds.) (2005) Media & Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development. Gothenburg: NORDICO
7. Chakravartty, Paula & Katherine Sarikakis (2006) Media Policy and Globalisation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. PART THREE 113-168
8. Webster, F (1995) Theories of the Information Society. London and New York: Routledge
9. van Dijk, Jan (1999) The Network Society. London: Sage
10. Servaes, Jan & Nico Carpentier (eds.) (2005) Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Deconstructing WSIS. Bristol: Intellect Books
11. Miller, Toby et al (2005) Global Hollywood. BFI: London, Chapter One, pp 50-110
Articles and Book Chapters (to be placed in the “Red Box” at the IMK reception in 4th Floor
1. Rantanene, Terhi (2005) Media and Globalisation. London: Sage. “Theorising Media and Globalisation” 1-18 (18 pages)
2. Sum, Ngai-Li (2003) “Informational Capitalism and U.S. Economic Hegemony: Resistance and Adaptations in East Asia” in Critical Asian Studies, 35:3 (2003), 375-398) (23 pages)
3. Winseck, Dwayne (2002) “The WTO, Emerging Policy Regimes and the Political Economy of Transnational Communications” in Marc Raboy (ed.) Global Media Policy in the New Millennium. Luton: University of Luton Press 19-37 (18 pages)
4. Mueller, M & Thomson, D (2004) “ICANN and INTELSAT: Global Communication Technologies and their incorporation into International Regimes” in Sandra Braman (ed.) The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 62-85 (23 pages)
5. Figenschou, Tine (2006) “Courting, Criticism, Censorship and Bombs: The Bush Administration?s Troubled Relations with Al- Jazeera Channel from Septemmber 11 to the War in Iraq” in Nordicom Review 27 (2006,) pp 81-96 (15 pages)