Readings for the Spring 2010 Semester

Dr. Jelena Karanovic
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Media, Culture and Communication
New York University

Week 1 – What is globalization?
- Inda, Jonathan, and Renato Rosaldo. 2008. Tracking Global Flows. In The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Second Edition. New York: Blackwell.
Recommended: Featherstone, Mike. 2006. Genealogies of the Global. Theory Culture Society 23, no. 2-3 (May 1): 387-392.
Blog kick-off assignment: Post a media account that best exemplifies globalization, in your opinion, and be ready to discuss how it either confirms or challenges the arguments presented by Inda and Rosaldo.

Week 2
Session 1 – Tracking global media flows
Make an appointment with me to discuss your interests and ideas for the final project in this course.
- Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. In Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, 27-47. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- Thussu, Daya. 2007. Mapping Global Flow and Contra-Flow. In Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow, 10-29. New York: Routledge.

Session 2 – Media practices and individual experience
- Rantanen, Terhi. 2005. Mediated Cosmopolitanism? In The Media and Globalization, 119-140. London: Sage Publications.

Week 3
Session 1 – A mediated world: historical trends
- Larkin, Brian. 2008. Introduction and Chapter 1 in Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Durham Duke University Press.

Session 2 – Reordering the time and space
- Larkin, Brian. Signal and Noise, chapters 4 and 5.
- Parks, Lisa. 2004. Kinetic Screens: Epistemologies of Movement at the Interface. In MediaSpace: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age, 37-57. ed. Nick Couldry and Anna McCarthy. London: Routledge.

Week 4: Snow day and President’s Day, no class

Week 5
Session 1 – Technological infrastructures, media forms, and cultural practices
The proposal for your final paper is due in class.
- Larkin, Brian. Signal and Noise, chapters 6 and 7.

Session 2 – Global news media organizations
- Thussu, Daya. 2007. Introduction and Infrastructure for Global Infotainment. In News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment, 1-14 and 43-68. London: Sage Publications.

Week 6
Session 1 – Global news, cont’d
Film viewing: Noujaim, Jehane. 2004. “Control Room.” Clips.
Recommended: Sakr, Naomi. 2007. Challenger or lackey? The politics of news on Al-Jazeera. In Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow, 104-118. Daya Kishan Thussu, ed. New York: Routledge.

Session 2 – A global oligopoly? Media conglomerates
Your first paper assignment is due.
- Miller, Toby, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell. 2005. Globalisation + Hollywood History + Cultural Imperialism + the GATT and Friends = Laissez-Faire Hollywood or State Business? In Global Hollywood 2. London: British Film Institute.

Week 7
International division of cultural labor: A case study of software industry
- Biao, Xiang. 2007. Introduction and Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 5 in Global Body Shopping: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Week 8
Session 1 – Ethical and political dimensions of globalization
- Finish reading Biao 2007.

Session 2 – De-centering trends in media globalization
- Iwabuchi, Koichi. 2007. Contra-flows or the cultural logic of uneven globalization? Japanese media in the global agora. In Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow, 61-75. Thussu, Daya, ed. New York: Routledge.

SPRING BREAK, March 15-20

Week 9
Session 1 – A “peripheral” look at the global TV
- Sinclair, John, Elizabeth Jacka, and Stuart Cunningham. 1996. New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision. New York: Oxford University Press. Excerpts.

Session 2 – Ethno-mediascapes
- Schein, Louisa. 2002. Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space. In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Ginsburg, F., Abu-Lughod, L., & Larkin, B. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Yang, Mayfair. 2002. Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis. In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Ginsburg, F., Abu-Lughod, L., & Larkin, B. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Week 10 – National and transnational public spheres
A complete draft of your final paper is due for peer review.
- Kosnick, Kira. 2007. Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5 in Migrant Media: Turkish Broadcasting and Multicultural Politics in Berlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Week 11
Session 1 – Transnational public spheres, continued
- Kosnick, Migrant Media, chapters 6 and 8.

Session 2 – Global indigenous media
Your peer review is due in class (along with the copy of the paper that you reviewed).
- Wilson, Pam and Michelle Stewart, eds. 2008. Introduction in Global Indigenous Media. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Turner, Terence. 2002. Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video : General Points and Kayapo Examples. In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, 75-89. Ginsburg, Faye, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Ginsburg, Faye. 2008. Rethinking the Digital Age. In Global Indigenous Media, ed. Pam Wilson and Michelle Stewart. Durham: Duke University Press.

Week 12 – New media and alternative globalizations
Session 1
Visiting speaker: Cindy Jeffers
Readings TBA

Session 1
- Juris, Jeffrey S. 2005. The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 597: 189-208.
- Couldry, Nick, and James Curran. 2003. The Paradox of Media Power. In Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World, 1-15. Rowman & Littlefield.

Weeks 13 and 14 – Student conference
Your blog portfolio is due.
Your final paper is due.