Area: | Department of Media and Information |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Contact Hours: | 2.0 |
Seminar: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
Prerequisite(s): | 12194 (v.5) Media, Communication and Information 111 - The Information Age or any previous version
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Syllabus: | General contextual issues of convergence and globalisation, concentrating particularly on understanding the historical and theoretical contexts of globalisation. How globalisation and convergence have impacted on the realms of finance, the media and the social, paying particular attention to how various issues arising from the relationship of the global and the local are negotiated. |
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Unit Outcomes: | On successful completion of this unit students will - Have a basic understanding of the major issues confronting the government, industries, business and individuals in the decision-making processes in relation to the convergence of media and the communication technologies and their subsequent tendency towards globalisation. Be able to undertake an extensive case study demonstrating how a particular country or society meets the challenges posed by globalisation and convergence in the fields of information, media and communication technologies. |
Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases. |
Unit References: | Aninat, E, (2002), Surmounting the Challenges of Globalisation in Finance and Development, March pp 4-7. Appadurai, A, (2000), Grassroots globalisation and the Research Imagination, In Public Culture 12(1) pp 1-19. Appadurai, A., (1996), Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. Bello, W., Bullard, N., Malhotra, K. (2000) Global Finance: New Thinking on Regulating Speculative Capital Markets, London, Zed Books. Sun, W., (2002), Leaving China: Media, Migration and Transnational Imagination, Boulder, Rowman and Littlefield. |
Unit Texts: | Media 312 Globalisation and Convergence Reader. |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Assignment One - Reading Logs 30%, Assignment two - Seminar Presentation 25%. Assignment three - Essay 35%. Participation - in class discussion 10%. This is by grade/mark assessment. |
Field of Education: | 100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping) | HECS Band (if applicable): | 1 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Not Online | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | |
Area
External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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