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COM 459 COMMUNICATION AND GLOBALIZATION Department of Communication University of Hawaii at Manoa Spring 1998
Professor: Majid Tehranian, <majid@hawaii.edu>
This course is a sequel to the course on "Communication and Civilization" that reviewed the role of communication in the development of human civilization from cave paintings to the mass media. It can be however taken independently. The course examines the interactions of communication and globalization in the context of contemporary international relations. It also focuses on development, democracy, and discourse theories and practices. Lectures follow the outline of the instructor's book, Globalism and Its Discontents, available for purchased in manuscript form at the Campus Copy at the Campus Center. In addition to this book, each student is responsible for three book reviews (about 5 pages each) dealing with the three sections of the course. Course evaluation will be based on class participation, the use of ACE-L listserv (10%), and three review essays (30% each). Each review essay should demonstrate the student's grasp of and thoughtful responses to the course lectures, readings, and videos. Extra credit is available to any student who wishes to undertake a research paper of about 10 pages on any topic relating to the course.
GLOBAL CLASSROOM We are going to employ the resources of the Internet as much as possible to obtain the feel of a global classroom without walls. If you haven't already, please obtain an Internet account. That will enable you anytime during day or night to "talk" to your instructor, graduate assistant, fellow students, and teleprofessors who will be featured in the course from time to time. In addition, it also will enable you to surf the net at your own leisure and pleasure. A good introduction on how to surf the net can be found online at the World Wide Web under the tile of Zen and the Art of Internet. There are many others in the computer sections of any good bookstore. Teleprofessors in this seminar will include scholars from around the world who have agreed to give a telelecture followed by a question and answer period. As soon as you have your own Email Account, you should sign up for membership in the Academy for Global Communication and Education (ACE) by sending the following message: To: listproc@hawaii.edu Message Text: SUBSCRIBE ACE-L PutYourFirstNameHere PutYourLastNameHere Example: SUBSCRIBE ACE-L John Doe Your participation in this electronic forum is required. You are asked to keep up with the discussions and ask at least three questions from telelecturers during the course. Happy surfing!
SCHEDULE DATES TOPICS READINGS/VIDEOS Jan 12 - Introduction Part I. Discourses of Globalism Jan 19 Holiday: Martin Luther King's Birthday Jan 26 - Reordering the World Information society V124 Feb 2 - Rising Globalism Reflections on a global screen,V13199 v 1-2 Feb 9 - Mapping Democracy The struggle for democracy, V3663 Feb 16 - Holiday: Presidents' Day Feb 23 - FIRST REVIEW ESSAY DUE Student Presentations Part II. Discourses of Discontent Mar 2 - Mastering Modernity Asia's response to the West, V6701 Mar 9 - Defying Modernity The religious right, v9271 Mar 16 - Taming Modernity Mini Dragons, V Malaysia Mar 23-27 - Spring Recess Mar 30 - Unleashing Discontent Islam, v3080 Apr 6 - SECOND REVIEW ESSAY DUE Student Presentations
Part III. Discourses of the Future Apr 13 - Deafening Dissonance 444 days to freedom V14373 Apr 20 - Pursuing Peace The Rainbow Warrior, V1718 April 27 - Communication Policy Workshop Crisis of cultural environment, V14389 May 4 - THIRD REVIEW ESSAY DUE Student Presentations **EXTRA CREDIT RESEARCH PAPER DUE
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: N. B.: In addition to the required text, select 3 books from this bibliography to use for your reviews. Some of the books may be found in the UH Bookstore and libraries.
Majid Tehranian, Globalism and Its Discontents: Democracy, Development, and Discourse in a Fragmented World, manuscript available at Campus Copy at the Campus Center. Ali Mohammadi, ed., International Communication and Globalization. Heather E. Hudson, Global Connections: Telecommunication Infrastructures and Policy. Katharine and Majid Tehranian, Eds. Restructuring for World Peace:On the Threshold of the 21stCentury. Fred Dallmayr, Beyond Orientalism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter Jerry Mander & Edward Goldsmith, eds., The Case against the Global Economy: And for a Turn Toward the Local. William Dutton, Information and Communication Technologies. Majid Tehranian, Technologies of Power: Information Machines and Democratic Prospects. Philip Lee, ed., Communication and Democratization. Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era. Jonathan Friedman, Cultural Identity and Global Processes. Les Levidow and Kevin Robins, eds., Cyborg Worlds: The Military Information Society. Foreign Affairs, 75th Anniversary Issue, Council on Foreign Relations, September/October 1997. Colleen Roach, ed., Communication and Culture in War and Peace. Linda M. Harasim, ed., Global Networks. David Harvey, The Conditions of Postmodernity: An Inquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. UNDP, Human Development Report 1996. Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine. Vincent Mosco, The Pay-per Society. Michael Kidron & Ronald Segal, The Sate of the World Atlas. Commission on Global Governance, Our Global Neighborhood. David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance. Ithiel de Sola Pool, Technologies of Freedom. Ronald Robertson, Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture. Howard Reingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Mark Poster, The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. Robert L. Stevenson, Global Communication in the Twenty-First Century. John C. Merrill, Global Journalism, Survey of International Communication. Bryan S. Turner, Orientalism, Postmodernism, and Globalism. Howard H. Frederick, Global Communication and International Relations. Elise Boulding, Building a Global Civic Culture: Education for an Interdependent World. Hamid Naficy, The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. Richard Falk, On Human Governance: Toward a New Global Politics. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995 Peter Golding and Phil Harris, ed. Beyond cultural imperialism: globalization, communication and the new international order. London: Sage, 1997. HMLTN CALL #: P96 .I5 B48 Theodore Rozak, The Cult of Information. New York: Pantheon Books, l986. ISBN: 0-394-75175-2 Sherry Turkle, The Second Self, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1984. Clarice P. Brantley & Bobbye J. Davis, Eds. The changing dimensions of business education. Reston, Va.: National Business Education Association, 1997. HMLTN CALL #: HF1101 .N27 no.35 Hopeton S. Dunn, Ed. Globalization, communications, and Caribbean identity. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. HMLTN CALL #: P92 .C33 G58 H. Harmoko. Information strategy in the era of globalization. Jakarta: Yayasan Gebyar Aksara Mandiri, 1993. CALL #: P95.82.I5 H37 1993 H. Harmoko, The non-aligned movement in the era of globalization: with reference to communication and information. Jakarta: Yayasan Gebyar Aksara Mandiri, 1992. William W. Finan, ed. "The Global Economy," Current History, November 1997 Asoka Bandarage, Women, Population, and Global Crisis: A Political - Economic Analysis. London: Zed Books, 1997 Beverly Ann Deep Keever, Caroline Martindale, and Mary Ann Weston, Eds. U. S, News Coverage of Racial Minorities, A Sourcebook 1934-1996. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997 Michael J. Shapiro, Violent Cartographies: Mapping Cultures of War. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997 Mark Neocleous, Fascism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997 David C. Korten, When Corporations Rule the World. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1955 Akira Iriye, Cultural Internationalism and World Order. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 Kumar Rupesinghe and Marcia Rubio C., Ed. The Culture of Violence. Tokyo: United Nations University, 1994 Gadi Wolfsfeld, Media and Political Conflict: News from the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 Franke Wilmer, The Indigenous Voice in World Politics. Newbury Park: Sage, 1993 Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave Pacific Telecommunication Council, Conference Proceedings. Honolulu: PTC, since 1979 Daisaku Ikeda & Majid Tehranian, Choose Dialogue, ms. Unesco, Many Voices, One World. Paris: Unesco, 1980 Johan Galtung & Richard Vincent, Global Glasnost. Andrew Arno & Wimal Dissanayake, Eds. Media in the National and International Conflicts James H. Mittlelman, Globalization: Critical Reflections. Boulder, Lynn Reinner, 1996 Patrick H. O'Niel, Communicating Democracy: The Media and Political Transitions. . Boulder, Lynn Reinnr, 1998 Yosef Lapid and Friedrich Kratochwil, Eds. The Return of Culture and Identity in IR Theory. Boulder, Lynn Reinner, 1996 Thomas G. Weise and Leon Gordenker, Eds. NGOs, the UN, and Global Governance. Boulder, Lynn Reinner, 1996 Larry Minear, Clin Scott, and Thomas G. Weiss, The News Media, Cvil War, and Humanitarian Action. Boulder, Lynn Reinner, 1996 Stuart Hall and Paul Du Gay, Questions of Cultural Identity. Sage, 1996 Rob Shields, ed., Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies. Sage, 1996 Paul Du Gay et al., Doing Cultural Studies. Sage, 1997 Stuart Hall, Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Sage, 1997 Kathryn Woodward, ed. Identity and Difference, Sage, 1997 Shanto Iyengar & Richard Reeves, eds. Do the Media Govern? Sage, 1996 Vincent Mosco, The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal. Sage, 1996 Teun A. van Dijk, ed. Discourse as Social Transaction. Sage, 1996 Teun A. van Dijk, ed, Discourse as Structure and Process. Sage, 1996 Discourse Studies, 2 vols. Sage, 1996
COMMUNICATION AND CIVILIZATION: A Selected Bibliography Part I. Communication As Civilization Talal Assad, The Genealogy of Religion Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy Pierre Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems Alistair Cooke, Civilization James Carey, Communication as Culture David Crowley and Paul Heyer, Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society Hugh D. Duncan, Communication and Social Order Norbret Elias, The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization Jacques Ellul, The Technological System Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Michel Foucault, The Order of Things Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic Michel Foucault, Power /Knowledge *Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents Pietre Geyl, Arnold Toynbee, and Pitrim Sorokin, The Pattern of the Past Jurgen Habermas, Theory of Communicative Action *Jurgen Habermas, Communication and Evolution of Society *Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Marshal McLuhan, Medium is the Massage *Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man R. D. Laing, Divided Self Arnold Pacey, Technology in World Civilization Pitrim Sorokin, The Basic Trends of Our Time Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West *Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History Immanuel Wallerstein, The World System Part II. Communication And Premodern Civilizations Janet AbuLughod, The World System Before 1800 Marcia and Robert Ascher, Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics and Culture Confucius, Writings A. G. Frank & B. K. Gill, The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? Henri Frankfort et al., Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of the Ancient Man Jack Goody, Domestication of the Savage Mind Jack Goody, The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society Jack Goody, The Interface between the Written and the Oral E. Havelock, The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present *Harold Innis, Communication and Empires Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy *Walter Ong, Orality Muhsen Mahdi, The Philosophy of Ibn Khaldun Huston Smith, The Religions Of Man Levi Straus, Savage Mind Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching Part III. Communication And Modern Civilizations Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities Roland Barthes, Writing Degree Zero Roland Barthes, Image, Music, Text *James Beniger, Control Revolution : Technological and Economic Origins of Post-Industrial Society Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essay and Reflections Peter Berger, Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness Pierre Bourdieu, Distinctions D. Czitrom, Media and American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Social Impact of Print Stuart Ewen, Channels of Desire Stuart Ewen, Captains of Consciousness Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Franz Fanon, Studies in a Dying Colonialism M. K. Gandhi, An Autobiography Alvin Gouldner, The Dialectics of Ideology and Technology Alvin Gouldner, The Future of Intellectuals Heather Hudson, Global Connections: Telecommunication Infrastructures and Policy Malcolm X, An Autobiography O. Mannoni, Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonialism *Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy Joshua Meyerowitz, No Sense of Place Ithiel de Sola Pool, The Social Impact of the Telephone Edward Said, Covering Islam Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism Edward Said, Orientalism Herbert I. Schiller, Information and the Crisis Economy Katharine Kia Tehranian, Modernity, Space, and Power: The American City in Discourse and Practice *Majid Tehranian, Technologies of Power: Information Machines and Democratic Prospects Raymond Williams, The Long Revolution Part IV. Communication And Postmodernity Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. MacWorld Jean Baudillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death Elise Boulding,. Building a Global Civic Culture: Education for an Interdependent World M. Christine Boyer, CyberCities : Visual Perception in the Age of Electronics Fred Dallmayr, Beyond Orientalism Wimal Dissanayake, Global/local : Cultural Production and the Trans Franco Ferrarotti, The End of Conversation: The Impact of Mass Media in Modern Society Michel Foucault, This Is Not a Pipe Michel Foucault, Power /Knowledge Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Jurgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Linda M. Harasim, ed., Global Networks *David Harvey, The Conditions of Postmodernity: An Inquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change Daisaku Ikeda & Majid Tehranian, Choose Dialogue Mark Juergensmeyer, The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State William Kuhns, The Post Industrial Prophets: Interpretations of Technology Philip Lee, ed., Democratization of Communication Joshua Meyerowitz, No Sense of Place Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood *Mark Poster, Mode of Information Mark Poster, The Second Media Age Howard Rheingold, Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier Howard Rheingold, Virtual Reality Colleen Roach, ed., Communication and Culture in War and Peace Deanna Campbell Robinson, et al., eds., Music at the Margins: Popular Music and Global Cultural Diversity Theodore Rozak, The Cult of Information Dariush Shayegan, ed., Líimpat de la pensee occidentale red-il possible un dialogue real entre les civilisations? *Katharine & Majid Tehranian eds., Restructuring for World Peace: At the Threshold of the 21st Century Majid Tehranian, Globalism and Its Discontents: International Communication and Modernization in a Fragmented World (in press) Alvin Toffler, Future Shock Tu, Wei-Ming et al., The Confucian World Observed Sherry Turkle, The Second Self Gainni Vattimo, The End of Modernity Sophie Watson & Katherine Gibson, eds., Postmodern Cities and Spaces
REFERENCES Commission on Global Governance, Global Neighborhood. Peace and Policy, Journal of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research The International Encyclopedia of Communications United Nations Development Program, Human Development Reports World Bank, World Development Reports
USEFUL WEBPAGES There are many sites on the Internet relevant to communications studies. The World Wide Web (WWW) homepage of the Department of Communication at the University of Hawaii has a good listing of sources of information, including Listservs, WWW sites, dictionaries, bibliographies, journals, jobs, government agencies, corporations, non-governmental organizations, etc. You can access the websites through Netscape or MS Explorer. Department of Communication, University of Hawaii at Manoa <http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/dept/com/com.html> Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research: <http://www.toda.org> | ||