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l in understanding your experiences? You will find the recommended reading in weeks 1, 2 and 3 helpful.
Assignment two
Deadline: Thursday 30 April 4 pm
1, Is the concept of cultural imperialism of any value in helping us understand the impact of media products on national cultures in the twenty-first century?
2, How is the global culture industry responding to piracy? To what extent is media piracy a challenge to the power of the industry?
3, How have anti-corporate protest groups sought to tarnish the image of transnational corporations and their products? Have they been successful?
4, ‘The rapid growth of satellite news channels and new media, provide a greater diversity of perspectives in international news than ever before.’ Do you agree?
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5, What challenge does the internet pose for non-democratic nation states? How have such regimes responded?
6, Have new communication technologies empowered new social movements? Discuss with reference to examples.
7, Is there still a need for NWICO in the 21st century?
Marking Criteria
Course work will be evaluated on the criteria below:
• Structure and clarity. The extent to which the essay is logically organised with a coherent argument. There should be an introduction and conclusion, which draws together the strands of the argument. Subheadings are a useful device for signalling the sequence of the essays argument.
• Analysis. The essay should address relevant views and arguments in an informed and critical fashion.
• Relevance. Consider the essay question carefully. The essay should answer the question.
• Evidence. The essay should be informed by a range of the relevant reading.
• Use of literature. The evidence should be used accurately, critically, appropriately and effectively.
• Understanding. The essay should display an awareness of the key issues and an ability to tackle them confidently.
• Presentation. Is the essay legible, grammatical, and fluently written.
• Referencing. All sources should be used properly referenced in the text. A full and accurate bibliography should be included
• Originality. Does the essay draw on a wider than usual range of reading and examples ? Does it show evidence of original research by citing recent examples that have not been mentioned in lectures or in the assigned readings ? Does it make new points about familiar arguments or illuminate core issues in new ways ?
Referencing
The conventions for referencing are in the course handbook and can be downloaded from https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/current/books.html
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SSP314 TIMETABLE
Session 1: Introduction: the global, the national and the local (January 20)
Session 2: Communication flows: Cultural Imperialism and its Critics (January 27)
Part 1: Global Media Industries and the Challenges to Corporate Power
Session 3: The Transnational Media Corporations and Cultural Appropriation (February 3)
Session 4: Media Piracy (February 10)
Session 5: Culture Jamming: Challenging Corporate Culture (February 17)
Session 6: The Challenges to the Global News Giants (February 24)
Part 2: Global Media, Nation States and Transnational Civil Society
Session 7: Transnational Communication and the Challenge to National Sovereignty (March 3)
Session 8: The Internet and Non-Democratic States (March 10)
Session 9: Global protest: transnational activism and the Net