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HON 491 COMMUNICATION AND CIVILIZATION Department of Communication University of Hawaii at Manoa Fall 1998
Professor: Majid Tehranian <majid@hawaii.edu>
This seminar explores the role of communication in the development of human civilization from its premodern to modern, and postmodern trajectories, focusing on changing communication technologies in relation to the evolving economic, political, and cultural modalities of life. Each student is responsible for four book reviews (about 5 pages each) dealing with the four sections of the course and a research paper of about 15-20 pages on a topic selected in consultation with the instructors. Course evaluation will be based on class attendance and participation (10%), four review essays (10% each), and the research paper (50%). The purpose of the seminar is to develop an appreciation of continunity and change in history through an archeology of differerent layers of communication technologies and power systems.
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, 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 to 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 on the bookshelves of 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 forum is required. You will keep up with the discussions and ask at least one question from each telelecturer. Happy surfing!
SCHEDULE DATES TOPICS READINGS/VIDEOS _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Part I. Communication As Civilization Aug 24 - Introduction Joseph Campbell, Videotape 1496 Aug 31 - The Fragility of Civilization Freud, Jung, Sorokin, Spengler, Toynbee, V 10587, 7641, 71492 Sep 7 - Holiday: Labor Day Sep 14 - The Bias of Communication Marshall McLuhan, Videotape FIRST REVIEW ESSAY DUE Student Presentations Written notice of students' choices of readings Part II. Communication and Premodern Civilizations Sep 21 - Communication and Religious Civilizations Videotapes 3800, 1363. 3796, 19194, 2296, 4657 Sep 28 - Communication and Agrarian Empires Videotapes 13712, 10196, 10193 Oct 5 - Communication and the Silk and Spice Roads The Silk Road, Videotape 7879 Oct 12 - SECOND REVIEW ESSAY DUE Student Presentations Part III. Communication and Modern Civilizations Oct 19 - Print Revolution and Democracy America, Videotape 5073 Oct 26 - Electronic Revolution and Ideology Radio Days, Videotape Nov 2 - Computer Revolution and Technocracy Frontline high stakes in cyberspace VIDEOTAPE 12916 Nov 9 - THIRD REVIEW ESSAY DUE Student Presentations Part IV. Communication and Postmodernity Nov 16 - Communication and Globalization Information Society, Video 124 Nov 23 - Communication and Localization Stuart Hall, Videotape Nov. 30 - Clash or Dialogue of Civilizations Apocalypse Now, 1903, 6603 Dec 7 - FOURTH REVIEW ESSAY DUE Student Presentations Dec 14 - RESEARCH PAPER DUE
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (*indicates availability in the UH Bookstore) 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 Autobiograph 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 Michael Parenti, Make Belief Media Ithiel de Sola Pool, The Social Impact of the Telephone Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information 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 Cees Hamelink, The Politics of International Communication 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 Ali Mohammadi, Globalization and International Communication Niel 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., L'impat de la pensee occidentale red-il possible un dialogue real entre les civilisations? Gerry Sussman, Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age Katharine & Majid Tehranian eds., Restructuring for World Peace: At the Threshold of the 21st Century Majid Tehranian, Global Communication and World Politics, ms. 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 Richard Wordman, Information Anxiety Daniel Yergin, Commanding Heights
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. You can purchase books on the Internet a discounted prices through <www.amazon.com>. 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 Instiutte for Global Peace and Policy research: http://www.toda.org | ||