Instructor: Majid Tehranian
Email & Webpage: majid@hawaii.edu; http://www2.hawaii.edu/~majid
Course Listserv: ace-l@hawaii.edu
Office: Crawford Hall 309. Tel.: 808-956-3353
Office Hours: TTh 1:30-2:30 pm, or by appointment
Class Meetings: Wednesdays 3:00-5:30 pm, Webster Hall 104

DESCRIPTION
This course provides a historical perspective on the contemporary problems of global communications. It will review the connections between communications and past empires before it examines the rise of a global informatic empire. It will conclude by reviewing the major contemporary problems of international and global communications.

APPROACH
International communications is a vast topic that can be taught in a variety of ways. This course assumes that history matters. It therefore adopts a historical approach to the topic. After reviewing the history of domination and resistance in history through competing technologies and mythologies, the course focuses on some major problems in international and global communications.

REQUIRMENTS
You are required to (1) write two review essays on two books selected from the recommended texts, (2) prepare a case study of a comparative, international, or global communication problem, and (3) actively participate in class discussions.

GRADING
Evaluation is based on the book reviews (20% each), case study (50%), and class participation (10%). Oral and written presentations will be evaluated on the basis of their originality (20%), cogency (20%), organization (20%), style (20%), and scholarship (20%). Your numeric grade corresponds to letter grades as follows: 90-100, A to A+; 80-89, B to B+; 70-79, C to C+; 60-69, D to D+; below 60, F. Attendance is required. Each unexcused absence will result in a reduction of one point in your course grade.

LISTSERV
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SCHEDULE

REFERENCES

Guides to Writing
Strunk and White, Elements of Style.
Zinsser, William. On Writing Well. New York: Harper Resources, 1999.
Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996
McGuire, Mary et al. The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists.
New York: The Guilford Press, 1997

Scholarly Journals
Communication Theory; Journal of International Communication; InterMedia; Telecommunications Policy; Journal of Communication; Media Asia; Third World Quarterly; Alternatives; Media Development; Third Channel; Asian Journal of Communication; European Journal of Communication; Culture, Media and Society; Communication Theory; Broadcasting and Electronic Media, The Information Society; Journal of Communication Inquiry, etc.

Radio and TV
National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" as well as the Lehrer Report are recommended. Monitoring of foreign broadcasting, e. g. BBC World Service, Voice of America, CNN International, and CNN World Report

Surveys, Yearbooks, Encyclopedias, UN Commission Reports, and Bibliographies
Anon. “ A Survey of Technology and Entertainment,” The Economist, November 21, 1998
Anon., "A Survey of the Internet," The Economist, July 1, 1995.
Anon., "Survey of Telecommunications," The Economist, September 30, 1995
Center for the Study of Communication and Culture. Communication Research Trends. A quarterly
devoted to literature reviews of communication and cultural issues.
Commission On Global Governance, Our Global Neighborhood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Statistical Yearbook
International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The Missing Link: The Report of the Independent
Commission for Worldwide Telecommunications Development. Geneva: International Telecommunication Union, 1985.
INTELSAT. Bridging the Gap III: A Guide to Telecommunications and Development.
Washington, DC: INTELSAT, 1987.
International Foundation for Development Alternatives. IFDA Dossier, bimonthly, includes news and
views on alternative development strategies and projects.
The International Encyclopedia of Communications. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990
Kumar, Keval J. "Annotated Bibliography on Communication Development”, Media Development, 1985.
Lent, John. "Media in the Developing World: An Annotated Bibliography," Media Information Australia,
No. 23, February 1982.
Pacific Telecommunications Council. PTC Conference Proceedings, annual since 1979.
UNESCO Communication Policy Series: Nigeria, Kenya, Colombia, Ireland, Sweden, Hungary, Germany, Yugoslavia, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Korea, Zaire, Peru, Costa Rica.
UNESCO Communication and Society Series: India, Venezuela, Czechoslovakia, Iran, Austria, Egypt, Communication Indicators, and Latin America.
UNESCO Reports and Papers on Mass Communication.
UNESCO Communication Order Series.
UNESCO, Statistical Yearbook.
UNESCO, List of Documents and Publications in the Field of Mass Communication. Paris: UNESCO, annual since 1974.
UNESCO, World Communications Report, 1990.
UNESCO, Many Voices, One World. Paris: UNESCO, 1980
UNESCO. A Documentary History of a New World Information and Communication Order Seen as an
Evolving and Continuous Process, 1975-1986. Paris: UNESCO, Communication and Society Series, #19, UNDP, Human Development Report, annual since 1990.
World Bank. World Development Report, annual.

Relevant Websites
http://sunsite.nus.edu.sg/amic/
http://www.usc.edu/dept/annenberg
http://www.toda.org
http://www.nytimes.com
http://interactive.wsj.com
http://www.eye-net.org
http://yahoo.com
http://altavista.digital.com
http://www.excite.com
http://www.economist.com
http://www.medihistory.com
http://www.cnn.com
http://www.census.gov
http://www.whitehous.gov/WH/html/briefroom.html
http://www.ameritech.com/news/contributions/education/schoolhouse/library_social_sci.html
www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html
www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby//strunk/
www.thesaauru.com
www.internetuniv.com
www.finweb.com
www.ucr.edu/h_gig/hourslinks/html
www.cais.com/makulow/vlj.html
www.pitt.edu/~ian/index/html
www.abacon.com/sociology/soclinks/indx.html
www.voxpop.org/jefferson/
UN, ITU, UNESCO, WIPO, INTELSAT, ASEAN, NAFTA, APEC, INMARSAT

Introductions

Thussu, Daya Kishan. International Communication: Continuity and Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-340-74131-7.

Siochru, Sean O., Bruce Girard, and Amy Mahan. Global Media Governance: A Beginner’s Guide. Lanham: Roman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 0-7425-1566-4.

Tehranian, Majid. Global Communication and World Politics: Domination, Development, and Discourse. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999. ISBN: 1-55587-708-7

Tehranian, Majid. Civilization: A Global Journey, ms.

Fortne, Robert S. International Communication: History, Conflict, and Control of the Global Metropolis. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993. ISBN: 0534190928

Frederick, Howard H. Global Communication and International Relations.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1993. ISBN: 0-534-19344-7

Stevenson, Robert L. Global Communication in the 21st Century.
New York: Longman, 1994. ISBN: 0801304032

Communications and Empires

Innis, Harold 1950a. Empires and Communication. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Bury, ??? The Idea of Progress.

Frankfurt, Henri. Before Philosophy.

Galtung, Johan & Enayatollah, Sohail. Macrohistory and Macrohistorians.

Gastil, Raymond. Progress.

Habermas, Jurgen. Communication and Evolution of Society.

Habermas, Jurgen. 1971. Knowledge and Human Interests, trans. by J. Shapiro. London: Heinemann.

Habermas, Jurgen. 1973. Legitimation Crisis. Boston: Beacon Press.

Habermas, Jurgen. 1983. A Theory of Communicative Action, 3 vols. Boston: Beacon Press.

Kumar, Krishna. 1978. Prophecy and Progress: Theories of Industrial and Post-Industrial Society. New York: Penguin.

Poster, Mark. 1990. The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and social context.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Smith, Huston. World Religions. New York: Harper and Row: latest edition.

Toynbee, Arnold. A Study of History, abridged edition. New York: Weathervane Books, 1972.

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1974. The Modern World-system, v. 1. New York: Academic Books.
Abu-Lughod, Janet. 1989. Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press.

Braudel, Fernand. A History of Civilizations. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN: 0-14-02489-6

Chase-Dunn, Christopher & Thomas D. Hall. 1997. Rise and Demise: Comparing World-System. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Chomsky, Noam and Herman. 1988. Manufacturing Consent. New York: Pantheon Books.

Elias, Norbert 1982. The civilizing process, translated by Edmund Jephcott with some notes and revisions

Frank, Andre Gundar and Barry K. Gills, Eds. The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? London: Routledge, 1993

Frank, Andre Gundar. Re-Orient. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998

Hamelink, Cees J. The Politics of World Communication: A Human Rights Perspective. London: Sage Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-8039-7823-5

Innis, Harold 1950b. The Bias of Communication. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

McLuhan, Marshall. The Guttenberg Galaxy: The Making of the Typographic Man. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1992.

Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London and New York: Routledge, 1982. ISBN: 0-415-02796-9

Thompson, John B. The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0804726795

Thussu, Daya Kishan. International Communication: Continuity and Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-340-74131-7

Communications and Globalization

Ikeda, Daisaku and Majid Tehranian. Global Civilization: A Buddhist-Islamic Dialogue. London/New York: British Academic Press, 2003. ISBN: 1-86064-810-X.

Aksu, Esref & Joseph A. Camilleri, Eds. Democratizing Global Governance. New York: Palgrave Press, 2002. ISBN: 0-333-97123-X

Camilleri, Joseph, Kamal Malhotra, and Majid Tehranian. Reimagining the Future: Toward Democratic Governance. Bundoora, Australia: Department of Politics, La Trobe University, 2000.

Carter, Stephen L. Civility: Manners, Moral, and the Etiquette of Democracy. New York: Basic Books, 1998.
Castells, Manuel. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vols. 1-3. Malden, MA: Blackwells Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 1-55786-874-3.

Friedman, Jonathan. 1994. Cultural Identity and Global Processes. Sage: Newbury Park.

Fukuyama, Francis 1992. The End of History and the Last Man. New York: Free Press.

Gills, Barry, Ed. Globalization and Resistance.

Hall, Thomas D. A World Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000.
ISBN: 0-8476-9184-5

Hardt, Michael & Antonio Negri. Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
ISBN: 0-674-00671-2.

Huntington, Samuel P. 1996. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.
New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN: 0-684-81987-2

Intriligator, Michael, Alexander Nikitin, and Majid Tehranian, Eds. Eurasia: A New Peace Agenda,
London and New York: I. B. Tauris, forthcoming.

Lechner, Frank J. & John Boli. The Globalization Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
ISBN: 0-631-21477-1

Marks, Susan. The Riddle of All Constitutions: International law, Democracy, and the Critique of Ideology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-465-02384-3

Rajaee, Farhang. Globalization on Trial: The Human Condition and the Information Civilization. West Hartford: Kumarian Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-88936-909-7

Schiller, Dan. Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-262-69233-3 (pb)

Schiller, Herbert. Who Knows: Information in the Age of Fortune 500. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1981.

Schiller, Herbert. Information and the Crisis Economy. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1985.

Siochru, Sean O., Bruce Girard, and Amy Mahan. Global Media Governance: A Beginner’s Guide. Lanham: Roman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 0-7425-1566-4.

Tehranian, Katharine & Tehranian, Majid, eds. 1992. Restructuring for World Peace: On the Threshold of the 21st Century. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Tehranian, Majid. 1990. Technologies of Power: Information Machines and Democratic Prospects. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.

Tehranian, Majid. Global Communication and World Politics: Domination, Development, and Discourse. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999a. ISBN: 1-55587-708-7

Tehranian, Majid, ed. 1999b. Worlds Apart: Human Security and Global Governance. London: I. B. Tauris.

Tehranian, Majid, ed. 1999c. Asian Peace: Security and Governance in the Asia-Pacific Region. London: I. B. Tauris.

Tehranian, Majid and David W. Chappell, Eds. Dialogue of Civilizations: A New Peace Agenda for a New Millennium. English Edition: London: I. B. Tauris, 2002. ISBN: 1-86064 712 X - Japanese Edition, Tokyo: Ushio Shuppansha, 2004 - Persian Edition, Tehran: Markaz Press, 2004.

Tehranian, Majid & Daisaku Ikeda. Global Civilization: A Buddhist-Islamic Dialogue. Japanese Edition, Tokyo: Ushio Shuppansha, 2000. - English Edition, London: British Academic Press, 2003. - Persian Edition, Tehran: Shahab Press, 2004. - Italian Edition, Milano: Sperling & Kuper Editori, 2004

Tehranian, Majid, Ed. Bridging a Gulf: Peacebuilding in West Asia,, edited. London: I. B. Tauris, 2003.

Bentley, Jerry H. Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchange in Pre-Modern Times. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN: 0-19-507640-0

Chomsky, Noam and Herman. 1988. Manufacturing Consent. New York: Pantheon Books.

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Martin J. Gannon. Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 23 Nations, 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001. ISBN: 0-7619-1329-7

Shayegan, Daryush. Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992. ISBN: 0-8156-0507-2.

Rajaee, Farhang, Globalization on Trial: The Human Condition and the Information Civilization. West Hartford: Kumarian Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-88936-909-7

Tehranian, Majid and David Chappell, Dialogue of Civilizations: A New Peace Agenda for a New Millennium. London /New York: IB Tauris, 2002. ISBN: 1-86064-714 X

Said, Edward. 1981. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. New York: Pantheon

Siochru, Sean O., Bruce Girard, and Amy Mahan. Global Media Governance: A Beginner’s Guide. Lanham: Roman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 0-7425-1566-4.

Hamelink, Cees J. The Politics of World Communication: A Human Rights Perspective. London: Sage Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-8039-7823-5

Tehranian, Majid. Technologies of Power: Information Machines and Democratic Prospects. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1990. ISBN: 0-89391-634-X

Tehranian, Majid. Global Communication and World Politics: Domination, Development, and Discourse. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999a. ISBN: 1-55587-708-7

Ginneken, Jaap van. Understanding Global News. London: Sage Publications, 1998. ISBN: 0-719-5709

Galtung, Johan and Richard Vincent. Global Glasnost: Toward A New World Information and Communication Order? Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1992. ISBN: 1881303314

Mohammadi, Ali, Ed. International Communication and Globalization. London: Sage Publications, 1977. ISBN: 0-442-02362-6

Roach, Colleen Ed. Communication and Culture in War and Peace. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1993. ISBN 0-8039-5063-2

Hamelink, Cees J. The Politics of World Communication. London: Sage Publications, 1994. ISBN: 0-8039-7823-5

Sussman, Gerald and John A. Lent, Eds. Transnational Communications: Wiring the Third World.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 1991

Tehranian, Majid. Technologies of Power: Information Machines and Democratic Prospects. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp, 1990. ISBN: 0-89391-634-X (paper).

Tehranian, Katharine & Majid, Eds. Restructuring for World Peace: On the Threshold of the 21st Century. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1992. ISBN: 1-881303-84-5

Arthur Asa Berger, Media Analysis Techniques, latest ed. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, paperback. ISBN: 0-8039-4362-8

Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community. New York: Harper Perennial, paperback.
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Hamid Mowlana, Global Communication in Transition: The End of Diversity? Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, paperback. ISBN:

Commission on Global Governance. Global Neighborhood. New York: Oxford University Press, paperback

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Castells, Manuel. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vols. 1-3. Malden, MA: Blackwells Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 1-55786-874-3.

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