Books
Staksrud, E (2013). Children in the Online World: Risk, Regulation and Rights. London: Ashgate.
Articles (the articles are available in Fronter (fronter.uio.no), Archive/arkiv folder)
MEVIT4614 - Reading List, Schedule
Fall, 2013
Monday, August 19
Course introduction: pornography, democracy, regulation?
Opening lecture – workshop discussion:
“Pornography” – what is it? why is it a problem (if it is)? IF it’s a problem – what ought / can we (who is the “we”?) do about it?
Reading
C. Ess, from: “Still More Ethical Issues: Digital Sex and Games,” (Chapter 5) Digital Media Ethics, 2nd edition, pp. 157-178. (PDF online)
Democracy – what is it? And: how far may “democracy” be realized in a globalized world interconnected via networked / digital media?
Reading
C. Ess, from: “Friendship, Democracy and Citizen
Journalism,” (Chapter 4), Digital Media Ethics, 2nd edition, pp. 142-151. (PDF online)
Additional topoi: freedom of expression; emancipation?
Reading
UNESCO Report, "There Shall Be Freedom of Expression" - Introductory materials + ch. 2 (PDF): pp. 5-14, 27-40.
And: Global Media and Communication Policy (GMCP)
Reading
(1) Robin Mansell & Marc Raboy, Introduction: Foundations of the Theory and Practice of Global Media and Communication Policy. (pp. 1-15)
NB! readings marked by a chapter number in parentheses are from:
R. Mansell and M. Raboy (Eds). 2011. The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy. PDFs online.
Friday, August 23
“Pornography” and democracy: freedom of expression and emancipation
Core Perspectives and Issues in Regulating Online Content
Readings
E. Staksrud, Children in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights (2013), ch. 1 – Introduction;
Staksrud, ch. 2 - Individualization
Seminar – workshop – discussion: “pornography” as emancipatory / freedom of expression?
Readings
Naomi Wolf, "The Porn Myth.” <http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/trends/n_9437/>
Smith, Clarissa. Pornographication: A Discourse for All Seasons, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 6(1): 103–8
B?cke, Maria (2011) Make-Believe and Make-Belief in Second Life Role-Playing Communities, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 18(1): 85–92.
Smith, Clarissa, Feona Attwood, and Martin Barker (2012) Porn Research: Preliminary Findings, <www.pornresearch.org/results.html>
Thorn, Clarisse (2012) Introduction: Reflections on Game Rape, Feminism, Sadomasochism, and Selfhood. In C. Thorn and J. Dibbell (eds). Violation: Rape in Gaming, pp. 4-23. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. (Order online as an ebook from: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/245632
Alexander, Leigh (2009) And You Thought Grand Theft Auto Was Bad: Should the United States Ban a Japanese “Rape Simulator’ Game? Slate, March 9, www.slate.com/articles/technology/ gaming/2009/03/and_you_thought_grand_theft_auto_was_bad.html?GT1=38001
Monday, August 26
Additional introductory considerations (GMCP)
Readings
(2) Ted Magder The Origins of International Agreements and Global Media: The Post, the Telegraph, and Wireless Communication Before World War I. (pp. 23-39)
(3) Don MacLean, The Evolution of GMCP Institutions. (pp. 40-57)
(4) William H. Melody, Whose Global Village? (pp. 58-78)
(5) Kaarle Nordenstreng, Free Flow Doctrine in Global Media Policy. (pp. 79-92).
(6) Rikke Frank J?rgensen, Human Rights and Their Role in Global Media and Communication Discourses. (pp. 95-111)
Friday, August 30
Media, Morality, and Rights (GMCP)
Readings
(15) Biswajit Das and Vibodh Parthasarathi, Media Research and Public Policy: Tiding Over the Rupture. (pp. 245-257)
(17) Karim H. Karim, Global Media Policy and Cultural Pluralism. (pp. 276-292)
(33) Claudia Padovani and Elena Pavan, Actors and Interactions in Global Communication Governance: The Heuristic Potential of a Network Approach. (pp. 543-563)
E. Staksrud & J. Kirks?ther. 2012. ‘He Who Buries the Little Girl Wins!’ Moral Panics as Double Jeopardy: The Case of Rule of Rose. In C. Critcher, J. Hughes, J. Petley, & A. Rohloff (eds), Moral Panics in the Contemporary World, pp. 145-167. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Kirsten Drotner (1999) Dangerous Media? Panic Discourses and
Dilemmas of Modernity , Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 35:3, 593-619. (Available through UiO network: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0030923990350303>)
Monday, September 2
Privacy: Basic Conceptions, Arguments, Theories
Reading
Ess, "Privacy" in the global metropolis? (From: Digital Media Ethics, ch. 2: pp. 35-43; 51-78). (PDF online)
Privacy after NSA? Liberation, Democracy, and Personal Privacy Protection
Lecture / “hands-on” workshop – bring your computers and phones!
(Reading and additional resources to be announced)
Friday, September 6
Privacy, protection, regulation? (GMCP)
Readings
(30) Sandra Braman, Anti-terrorism and the Harmonization of Media and Communication Policy. (pp. 486-504)
(31) Sonia Livingstone, Regulating the Internet in the Interests of Children: Emerging European and International Approaches. (pp. 505-520)
(Monday, September 9: no class – reading day)
Friday, September 13
Guest lecturer: Elisabeth Staksrud, “Regulation of Risky Online Content?”
Reading
E. Staksrud, Children in the Online World, Part II, Regulation! (pp. 82-142)
Monday, September 16
Rights – additional definitions, questions
Reading
E. Staksrud, Children in the Online World, Part III, Rights! (pp. 143-176)
Copyright – basic conceptions, arguments, theories
Reading
Ess, The ethics of copying: is it theft, Open Source, or Confucian homage to the master? (From: Digital Media Ethics, ch. 3, pp. 91-112). (PDF online)
Copying as liberation – as religion?
Reading
The Missionary Church of Kopimism <http://kopimistsamfundet.se/english/>
(Friday, September 20: no class – think about your final paper)
Monday, September 23
Copyright vs. Creativity (GMCP)
Readings
(16) Boatema Boateng, Whose Democracy? Rights-based Discourse and Global Intellectual Property Rights Activism. (pp. 261-274)
(22) Robert G. Picard, Economic Approaches to Media Policy. (pp. 355-363)
Workshop: possible topics for Final Paper
(Friday, September 27: no class)
Monday, September 30
Whose Side are You On?
Lecture + first in-class roleplay, debate
Readings
(14) Arne Hintz and Stefania Milan, User Rights for the Internet Age: Communications Policy According to “Netizens.” (pp. 230-240)
(9) Leslie Regan Shade, Media Reform in the United States and Canada: Activism and Advocacy for Media Policies in the Public Interest. (pp. 147-162)
(32) Caroline Pauwels and Karen Donders, From Television without Frontiers to the Digital Big Bang: The EU’s Continuous Efforts to Create a Future-proof Internal Media Market. (pp. 525-540)
[Review: (17) Karim H. Karim, Global Media Policy and Cultural Pluralism"; (31) Sonia Livingstone, Regulating the Internet in the Interests of Children: Emerging European and International Approaches”; (33) Claudia Padovani and Elena Pavan, Actors and Interactions in Global Communication Governance: The Heuristic Potential of a Network Approach]
(Friday, October 4: no class)
Monday, October 7
Whose Side are You On? - Part II (Lecture + 1st in-class roleplay, debate)
Readings – see above
Friday, October 11
Regulation vs. Rights (GMCP)
Readings
(21) Peter S. Grant, The UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity: Cultural Policy and International Trade in Cultural Products. (pp. 336-350)
(27) Roberta G. Lentz Regulation as Linguistic Engineering. (pp. 432-446)
Review: (6) J?rgensen; (31) Livingstone; (5) Nordenstreng; (32) Pauwels & Donders)
Monday, October 14
Content vs. Control – I (GMCP)
(8) Bart Cammaerts, Power Dynamics in Multi-stakeholder Policy Processes and Intra-civil Society Networking. (pp. 131-144)
(7) Nico Carpentier Policy’s Hubris: Power, Fantasy, and the Limits
of (Global) Media Policy Interventions. (pp. 113-125)
(28) Margaret Gallagher, Gender and Communication Policy: Struggling for Space. (pp. 451-461)
(20) Linje Manyozo, Rethinking Communication for Development Policy: Some Considerations. (pp. 319-335)
(October 18, 21, 25: no class. Prepare for last in-class presentations on Final Paper [Friday, November 4])
Monday, October 28
Content vs. Control II (GMCP) – vs. “Liberation Technology”?
Readings
(11) Monroe E. Price, Global Media Policy and Crisis States. (pp. 180-207)
(19) Jamal Eddine Naji, The Mediterranean Arab Mosaic between Free Press Development and Unequal Exchanges with the “North.” (pp. 306-318)
Diamond, Larry. 2012. Liberation Technology. In L. Diamond and M. F. Plattner (eds.), Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy, pp. 1-17. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (<http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs047n/readings/diamond-libtech.pdf>)
Deibert, Ronald and Rohozinski, Rafal. 2012. Liberation vs. Control: the Future of Cyberspace. In Diamond and Plattner (eds.), pp. 18-32. (Diamond and Plattner PDF)
Deibert, Ronald. 2012. International Mechanisms of Cyberspace Controls. In Diamond and Plattner (eds.), pp. 33-46. (Diamond and Plattner PDF)
Friday, November 4
Summing up / In-class presentations of final paper proposals.