Global Media (Core Module)

Welcome from the Course Convenor and AT

Key Contact Information

Overview and learning outcomes

Best Time for Upcoming Thematic Seminars

First Enrol on the Global Media and Digital Cultures Programme Area

Global Media and Digital Cultures Programme Area

Announcements and Discussion Forums

Weekly Topics

Announcements

E-tivities and Assessment Information

April 2025 E-tivity Calendar

Weekly Topics and E-tivities Schedule

SOAS Assessment Feedback Policy

Word Count Range and Marking of Over-length Coursework Policy

SOAS Marking Criteria

SOAS Academic Misconduct Policy

Student Academic Appeals Procedure

Permitted Extended Deadlines (PED) Policy and Procedure

SOAS Mitigating Circumstances

Support to Study Policy

Referencing Guide

E-tivity 1 and weekly topics assessment guidelines

E-tivity 1 (AS1) 2024/25

E-tivity 2 (AS2) 2024/25

E-tivity 3 (AS3) 2024/25

E-tivity 4 (AS4) 2024/25

E-tivity 5 (AS5) 2024/25

E-tivity 6 (AS6) 2024/25

E-tivity 1: Access and Socialisation

E-tivity 1: Access and Socialisation

E-tivity 1 and weekly topics assessment guidelines

1. Discourses of Globalization: Key Concepts and Debates – Part 1

Topic 1 Video

Appadurai - Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy

Dirlik - Spectres of the Third World: Global Modernity and the End of the Three Worlds.

Marx &amp; Engels - Communist Manifesto

Sreberny - Globalization Theories

E-tivity 2: Information Retrieval

E-tivity 2: Information Retrieval

2. Discourses of Globalization: Key Concepts and Debates – Part 2

Topic 2 Video

Appadurai - Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination

Thompson - Globalization of Communication

Youngs - Political Economy, Global Political Economy in the Information Age - Select Chapters

Sreberny - Global and Local in International Communications

E-tivity 3: Text Critique I

E-tivity 3: Text Critique I

3. Political Economy: Global capitalism, the rise of Global Media and Cultural Imperialism - Part 1

Topic 3 Video

Castells - Network Society, Chapter 1

Harvey - Spaces of Capital - Chapters 2 and 12.

Held - The Development of the Modern State

4. Political Economy: Global capitalism, the rise of Global Media and Cultural Imperialism - Part 2

Topic 4 Video

Smythe - On the Audience Commodity and its Form

Du Gay &amp; Pryke - Cultural Economy

5. Global Media and Citizenship - Part 1

Topic 5 Video

Anderson - Imagined Communities, Chapters 1 - 2

Anderson - The Origins of National Consciousness

Appadurai - Patriotism and its Futures

Appadurai - Modernity at Large

E-tivity 4: Essay Plan

E-tivity 4: Essay Plan Forum

6. Global Media and Citizenship - Part 2

Topic 6 Video

Hall - Who needs Identity?

Smith - Towards a Global Culture?

Morley - Spaces of Identity - Chapter 2

Stevenson - Cultural Citizenship – Chapter 1

Falk - The Making of Global Citizenship

E-tivity 5: Text Critique II

E-tivity 5: Text Critique II

7. Global Media and Activism

Topic 7 Video

Vaccari, Chadwick, O'Loughlin - Dual Screening the Political

Moore - The Situational Geography of Social Life

Castells - Opening: Networking minds, creating meaning, contesting power

8. Networks and Convergence - Information and Communication Technologies and the rise of “Network Society”

Marx & Engels - Communist Manifesto

Du Gay & Pryke - Cultural Economy

Tulloch & Blood - Iconic Photojournalism and absent images