Globalisation and Culture ACOM 465
Fall 2003
Week 3
September 14-20 UPDATED 9/16/2003 3:18 PM
(Tuesday)
- Are you a part of a Global culture? This
is a follow-on of our Group Discussions of last week.
One way to understand the extent
of globalisation is to look at some traditional events such as marriage:
see: http://www.kendricksdesignerimgs.com/trad.html
We will view ‘Global news’ from “Global Insights 3”
- The pros and cons of globalisation: the global debate See http://www.globalisationguide.org/03.html
- Migration as globalisation. Video of Australian migration from Global Insights 3 Also view the clip ‘a Muslim family describes their feelings and thoughts on the issue of Western (Australian) Governments VS asylum seekers’,
Visit the following website where you will have an
opportunity to apply the law in an asylum case.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov1999/wellfoundedfear/frameset.php3?section=yourdecision
THIS IS THE FIRST WEEK OF THE
DISCUSSION BOARD. You will need to make two entrees per week to get both
marks.
GO TO THE LIBRARY WEBPAGE Electronic Reserves Course
Index (http://eres.ulib.albany.edu/courseindex.asp)
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Department –
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Instructor –
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PASSWORD is gc
on the right side is: COM378
Discussion Board AND click the discussion board.
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Week Three: Discuss in two-three sentences
something you did this week that was a result of globalisation
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Come back toward the end of the
week and do the same only respond to something someone else has said.
(Thursday)
Discussion in groups
- Reports from your
country’s news (the country you were given to report on)
- How is culture changed
by technology?
- What other culture
would you like to experiment living in?
- How would you feel if
another ‘culture’ wished to destroy your culture
Journal article due Tuesday 23 September
YOUR JOURNAL ARTICLE FOR THIS WEEK MUST COME FROM A FOREIGN NEWSOURCE FROM THE COUNTRY YOU ARE ASSIGNED – THE ARTICLE NEEDS TO ADDRESS AN ISSUE ON GLOBALISATION – you will need to do this via the Internet unless you can get a paper from that country in the library.
For
example – If your group’s country was Zimbabwe. From Africa daily at: http://www.africadaily.com/
You would then discuss this article
bringing up the issue why international isolation is bad for Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe Police Seize Newspaper Equipment HARARE, Zimbabwe - Police seized computers and
other equipment Tuesday from Zimbabwe's only independent daily newspaper,
which was shut down last week for failing to register under sweeping media
laws. The closing of the Daily News
comes amid a government crackdown on dissent as Zimbabwe struggles with an
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Thursday – 12 September
- Report from the country you were given
See the groups page in this folder (week3-stuff)
- Information on next two week’s project:
making a ‘chatroom pal’ in a foreign culture/country
Readings
due Tuesday 23rd September:
From the web viewing, Maduagwu, Michael. GLOBALIZATION AND ITS CHALLENGES TO NATIONAL CULTURES AND VALUES: A
PERSPECTIVE FROM SUB-SAHARAN
What does Maduagwu say are the
three essential dimensions of globalisation? Provide an example of each one in relationship
to Sub-Saharan Africa.
From the web viewing, Globalisation guide: http://www.globalisationguide.org/
Is globalisation ‘Americanisation’?
Following ONE Internet link under the heading of either Anti-globalisation or
Pro-globalisation and answer this question.
It is important that you cite which site
you are going to. For example, ‘Rifklin
argues in his online article, Can Civilization Survive? by Jeremy
Rifklin, http://mai.flora.org/forum/18507,
that ….
Kellner, Douglas. CULTURAL STUDIES,
MULTICULTURALISM, AND MEDIA CULTURE
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/SAGEcs.htm
Chose one of Kellner’s
Ideologies (gender, race, class) and discuss whether you agree or disagree. As
always in this course there is no right or wrong but you need to have a think
after reading the article what you feel on the topic.
From one foreign news site show one headline story for the week 14-20tht September. A selection of foreign news services follows.
PRINT YOUR ARTICLE AND BRING IT TO CLASS THURSDAY FOR DISCUSSION IN YOUR GROUP.
For example, From the African Daily online http://www.africadaily.com/
Brian
Murgatroyd
"The
talent in this team deserves Tests but it's not in our hands," said Patil
ahead of Thursday's start to the 12-team tournament, which is being hosted by
"Our
job is to play good cricket, to put the scores on the right track and that will
push our case and make it stronger. It's up to the ICC to recognise that talent
but I'm sure
Foreign news sources
Africa Daily / Al-Jazeera /
Australia Daily / Asia Daily / BBC / Berlin News / Bloomberg / Bosnia Post / CBC.ca / Telegraph (UK) / Estonia Times / Europe Daily / Fox News / GlobalBus. Radio / Guardian / Hong Kong Daily / Independent (UK) / Herald Tribune (FR) / Middle East Daily / Russia Today / Sydney Post / SCMP.com /
Tokyo Globe / Vatican Post / JEWISH WORLD REVIEW
/ PAKISTAN
BROADCASTING / ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
WIRE /ITAR-TASS / KYODO WIRE / PR
NEWSWIRE
Thursday class:
Answer these questions and bring them to your group to discuss with the other two projects for this week
A. What was the top sport, song, food, artist and issue from your group’s country? This was in last week’s handout for you to do for today’s group/
B. Discuss the news story you printed and brought to class with your group.
This will be a worksheet handed out in class:
- What other culture would you like to experiment living in?
- If there was no concern about your safety or cost of living or
questioning of your world-views would you choose a different country than
above?
- If it is different than the country in one why would it matter?
- How would you feel if another ‘culture’ wished to destroy your
culture?Would it be better to fight against losing your way of life or
better to be assimilated by another culture?
- Do you think you would
be the same person if it were not for globalisation? I.e you had nothing
to do with any multi-national products – etc. Is it possible not to be
part of a globalised world?
- From your readings this week do you think the World Bank is helpful to other countries or is it a negative influence?