Instructor: Majid Tehranian, majid@hawaii.edu
Webpage: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~majid
Course Listserv: ace-l@hawaii.edu
Office: Crawford Hall 309. Tel.: 808-956-3353
Office Hours: MW 12:30-2:30 pm or by appointment
Class Meetings: M, 2:30-5:00 pm, George Hall 213

Course Description
This course provides a broad perspective on communication policy problems and methods of analysis. The course will cover three topics: (1) policy perspectives, (2) policy structures and processes, and (3) policy case studies. Site visits to such places as KHET, Verizon, Oceanic, and COMSAT may be arranged as time and opportunity permit.

Grading Criteria
You are required (1) to write short critical reviews of two books to be selected on the first and second topics, (2) to prepare a case study of a communication policy problem, and (3) to actively participate in class discussions. Your course grade will be based on your book reviews (20% each for a total of 40%), case study (50%), and class participation (10%). Oral and written presentations will be evaluated on the basis of their originality (20%), organization (20%), style (20%), methodology (20%), and cogency (20%). Your course numeric grade will correspond to letter grades as follows: 90-100, A; 80-89, B; 70-79, C; 60-69, D; below 60, F.

Attendance is required. For each unexcused absence or missed weekly assignment, one point will be deducted from a course total of 100 points. An incomplete grade will be given only to students with a demonstrated hardship preventing timely completion of coursework.

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 from the UH Computer Center. As soon as you have your own email account, you should sign up for membership in the world’s most exclusive electronic club, the Academy for Global Communication and Education (ACE), by sending the following message:

To: listproc@hawaii.edu
Message Text: SUBSCRIBE ACE-L <First and LastNames>
Example: SUBSCRIBE ACE-L John Doe

This will enable you to communicate with your instructor, fellow students, and members of the listserv around the world. Internet is a great research tool and medium of communication with people near or far. To initiate you into its mysteries, pick up any good guidebook to the Internet for social science research. Happy surfing!

Recommended Texts

1. Liberal Perspectives

Pool, Ithiel de Sola. Technologies of Freedom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. ISBN: 0-674-87233-9

Brock, Gerald W. Telecommunication Policy for the Information Age: From Monopoly
to Competition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. ISBN: 0-674-87326-2

Dutton, William H. Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0-19-877460-5.

Neuman, Russell et al. The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Highway. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780262140614

Norris, Pippa 2001. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty and the Internet in Democratic Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. IBSN: 0-521-00223-0

Branscomb, Anne Wells. Who Owns Information?: From Privacy to Public Access. New York: Basic Books, 1994. ISBN: 0-465-09175.

Hudson, Heather. When telephones reach the village: the role of telecommunications in rural development Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1984.

Hudson, Heather. Global Connections: International Telecommunications Infrastructure and Policy. New York, Toronto: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1997.

2. Critical Perspectives

Aufderheide, Patricia. Communications Policy and the Public Interest: The Telecommunication Act of 1996. Guilford Press, 1999. ISBN: 1572304251

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

Mosco, Vincent. The Political Economy of Communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. ISBN: 0-8039-8561-4.

McChesney, Robert W. Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times. New York: The New Press, 1999. IBSN: 156584-634-6

Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a
Category of Bourgeois Society. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991. ISBN: 0-262-58108-6

Habermas, Jurgen. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action. Cambridge, MA: 1995. ISBN: 9-780262-581289

Poster, Mark. The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. ISBN: 0-226-67596-3.

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.

Harvey, David. The Conditions of Post-Modernity: An Inquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Cambridge, MA & Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1990. .

3. Communitarian Perspectives

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

Boyle, James. Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

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

Roe, Emery. Narrative Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
ISBN: 0-8223-1513-0

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

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

Friedman, Jonathan. Cultural Identity and Global Processes. Sage: Newbury Park, 1994. ISBN: 0-8039-8637-8

Thompson, John B. 1995. The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Tehranian, Majid, ed. Worlds Apart: Human Security and Global Governance. London: I. B. Tauris, 1999. ISBN: 1-86064-444-9

Tehranian, Majid & David W. Chappell, Eds. Dialogue of Civilizations: A New Peace Agenda for the New Millennium. London: I. B. Tauris, 2002. ISBN: 1-86064-712X

Camilleri, Joseph A., Kamal Malhotra & Majid Tehranian. Reimagining the Future: Toward Democratic Governance. Bundoora: The Department of Politics, La Trobe University, 2000. ISBN: 0-646-39994-2

Tehranian, Majid et al. eds. Communications Policy for National Development: A Comparative Perspective, co-editor with F. Hakimzadeh & M. Vidale. London: Routledge, Kegan & Paul, 1977.

Tehranian, Majid. Socio-Economic and Communications Indicators in Development Planning: A Case study of Iran. Paris: UNESCO, 1981.

Tehranian, Majid. “Peace Journalism: Negotiating Global Media Ethics,” The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 7:2, Spring 2002, pp. 58-83.

Naficy. Hamid 1993. The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.

Rogers, Everett. 1962. Diffusion of Innovations. New York: The Free Press.

Rogers, Everett M., Ed. 1976. Communication and Development: Critical Perspectives. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Suggested Topics and References for Case Studies

• Policy Perspectives: Pool, Mosco, Tehranian, Harvey
  
• Language, Identity, and Cultural Policies: Naficy, Castells, Friedman, Tehranian
  
• Mass Media and National Communication Policies: Castells, Thompson
• Information and National Internet Policies: Norris, Dutton, Neuman
  
• Intellectual Property and Trade Policies: Boyle, Branscomb, J. Tehranian,
  
• Global Communication Policies: Hamelink, Tehranian, Thompson, Castells
  
• Rural Communication Policies: Hudson, Parker
  
• Communication Policy and Ethics: Tehranian, Brislin
  
• Communication and Development Policy: Rogers, Tehranian 77, AMIC,