MA in Global Media and Postnational Communication
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Description
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Type
Master
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Location
City of london
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Start date
Different dates available
Start of programme: September intake only
Mode of Attendance: Full-time or Part-time
FROM 2017-18
Students must take 180 credits comprised of 120 taught credits (including core and option modules) and a 60 credit dissertation
Select the equivalent of FIVE Modules comprising full (1.0) and half (0.5) Modules including the dissertation
This programme focuses on the dynamic developments in media and communications within Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It examines the growing significance of these regions as the locations of new media players and new cultural genres, of complex audience involvements with mediated communication and as the sites of critical and creative responses to globalization processes. It challenges Eurocentric approaches to the study of media and provides a unique opportunity to study the media and communications environments of the non-Western world.
Students consider the dynamics of globalization and its critiques, the roles and nature of communications technologies and mediated content within these processes, and consequent changes in the nature of political, economic, financial, social and cultural activity. They develop advanced knowledge and understanding of the theoretical, methodological and empirical issues involved in the analysis of non-western media and communications within historical and contemporary contexts, and explore media dynamics in global civil society. A particular focus is the role that media have played in both defining and challenging processes of nation-building and providing spaces for the articulation of other forms of identity-formation, including those among minority ethnic, diasporic, exilic and refugee populations.
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Subjects
- Politics
- IT
- Communication Skills
- Global
- Communications
- Communication Training
- Media
- IT Development
- Communication
- Digital
- Cultural
- Intercultural awareness
- Global Public Policy
- Globalisation
- Global Media
- Postnational Communication
- Postnational
Course programme
Each student takes 4 units in total: the Compulsory Course (1 unit), the Dissertation (1unit), at least two half units from list 3 below, and up to one unit of Options of their choice (list 4).
In choosing their courses, MA students are advised to pay careful attention to the balance of coursework across the two terms. In particular it is important to ensure that each term you have three taught courses. However much you might wish to take a mixture of courses that requires more coursework in one term than the other, it is most unwise to attempt to take four courses in one term and two in the other. Experience has shown that students simply cannot manage the load during the heavy term with the result that they either do very badly, fail or are unable to complete the courses in question. As a result Directors of Studies for the degrees and the Faculty staff will not approve a selection of courses which results in an imbalanced workload. An imbalance of courses between terms is only possible with the written permission of the convenor of the degree .
1. Compulsory Course:- Global Media and Postnational Communication: Theoretical and Contemporary Issues
Course Assessment:- A critical essay of 3,000 words based on reading relevant to issues in global media and postnational communication worth 80% of the final mark
- A book or article review of up to 600 words worth 20% of the final mark.
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Dissertation in Media Studies (supervisor to be allocated according to the dissertation topic).
Students are required to take at least TWO half unit courses from List 3.
- International Political Communication
- Media Spectacle and Urban Space in East Asia
- Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and Communications
- Topics in Global Digital Cultures
- Studies in Global Digital Cultures
- Studies in Media, Information Communication Technologies and Development
- Theoretical Issues in Media and Cultural Studies
- Theoretical Approaches to International Journalisms
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media:Networking, Connectivity, Identity
Students may take a course or courses up to the value of one full unit from the following lists:
- Digital traditional broadcasting communication
- Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the Avant-Garde
- Japanese Television since 1953
- Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film
- Media Spectacle and Urban Space in East Asia
- (Post) Colonialism and Otherness in South East Asia on Screen
- Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context
- Indian Cinema: Key Issues
- The Story of African Film: Narrative Screen Media in Africa
- Aspects of African film and video 2
- Curating Africa: African Film and Video in the Age of Festivals
- Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (MA)
- Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora
- Culture and Society of China
- Culture and Society of East Africa
- Culture and Society of Japan
- Culture and Society of South Asia
- Culture and Society of South East Asia
- Culture and Society of West Africa
- Culture and Society of Near and Middle East
- Anthropology of Development
- Perspectives On Development
- Civil society, social movements and the development process
For the following courses a background is required - admission is on a case-by-case basis
- The economic development of South East Asia
- Economic problems and policies in modern China
- Government and politics of modern South Asia
- Government and politics of modern South East Asia
- Jewishness on Screen
- Photography and the Image in Africa
This is the structure for 2018/19 applicants
If you are a current student you can find structure information on Moodle or through your Department.
Programme Specification- PROGRAMME SPEC FROM 2017-2018 (pdf; 63kb)
- NEW Prog Spec (pdf; 138kb)
Important notice regarding changes to programmes and modules
MA in Global Media and Postnational Communication