4 discussion questions engaging with the readings for EACH week. The questions may be focused on a specific
assigned reading or all. A discussion example: Consider the information/post-industrial economy. In what ways
has it benefited women? In what ways has it reproduced inequities? Consider processes such as work, design and
use in your answer.
Each will receive mark based on the effort and level of effective engagement displayed in the questions. Do
not write one simple sentence discussion question.
Week 1 The Class Implication of the Neo-liberal Oriented Media in Asia
Ying-Fen Huang (2012) “The Case of Dwelling Narrowness: Audience Commodity, the Spectacle and the Class
Formation.” Jovnost-the Public 19.2: 23-42.
Stacey K. Sowards (2003) “MTV Asia: Localizing the Global Media.” The Globalization of Corporate Media
Hegemony. Lee Artz ad Yahya R. Kamalipour ed. Albany: SUNY Press, 229-244.
Sujata Moorti (2010) “Transnational Brides: Wedding Magazines and the Invention of a Cosmopolitan Indian
Tradition,” Reorient Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 83-103.
4 discussion questions required
Week 2 The Reconfiguration of State and the Imperial Power in the Middle East
Marwan Kraidy (2011) “The Rise of Transnational Media Systems: Implications of Pan-Arab Media for Comparative
Research.” Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini ed.,Comparative Media Systems Beyond the Western World. Daniel
C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Helga Tawil Souri (2007) “Move Over Bangalore, Here Comes…Palestine? WesternFunding and “Internet Development”
in the Shrinking Palestinian State.” Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy. Paula
Chakravartty andYuezhi Zhao ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 263-284.
4 discussion questions
Week 3 Asia in the Global Economy
Vandana Shiva (2009) “Food Meets Media.” Nordicom Review 30:11-31.
Yuezhi Zhao, (2013) The life and Time of “Chimerica”: Global English Language PressDiscourses on U.S.-China
Economic Integration, Financial Crisis, and Power Shifts.”
4 discussion questions
Week 4 Power to the People”: Social Movements in Asia
Jack Lichuan Qiu (2013) “Power to the People!” Mobiles, Migrants and Social Movementsin Asia.” International
Journal of Communication 7 forthcoming.
4 discussion questions
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