New Media and International Communication S

Course aim

To acquaint students with the historical development of and current trends in media technologies and international communication.

Course content

Technologies and societies: historical precedents; Press: historical precedents; cinema: historical precedents; Electronic media; Media and images; The sounds of music; Global controls of information; Information, knowledge, society; Media and self: the media mirrors; the globalisation of identity; possibilities for freedom and resistance; The Internet and WWW; Globalisation and the future of communications; The emergence of the hypermedia environment; Distributional changes in postmodern world order transformation; Social epistemology changes in postmodern world order transformation.

Textbook(s)

Thussu, Daya Kishan 2006, International Communication: Continuity and Change, 2nd Edition, Hodder Arnold, London

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
COMM 1011	Communication: Rhetoric and Reasoning S
COMM 1009	Communication and the Media S

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY (INTENSIVE)
Lecture	4 hours x 2 days
Lecture	8 hours x 1 day
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, KAPLAN HIGHER EDUCATION - SINGAPORE (INTENSIVE)
Lecture	4 hours x 2 days
Lecture	8 hours x 1 day

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Essay, Final essay, Reading Journal

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.250
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