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EVOLUTION OF GLOBAL MEDIA and CIVIC DISCOURSE
PORTFOLIO
The History of Global Communication portfolio recognizes key moments and trends in the rise of global communications networks as precursors to our modern information society. The history of communication technologies and networks is as old as history itself, from the legendary trade routes by both land and sea, and the inventions of the printing presses, telegraph, radio, film, television, and up to modern digital communication. The portfolio focuses on the intersection of technology, anthropology, politics, and media studies to compare the ways in which communication and media affect society and how attempts to manipulate or propagandize information have effected social order and control.
The History of Global Communication Portfolio includes:
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Development of media rights
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Access & freedom of expression
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Evolution of journalistic/media ethics
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Identity, ethnicity, and gender
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Imperialism and communication
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Political economy of media
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Social change and democracy
History and Global Communication
Violence Against Media Is Not New – It Just Temporarily Faded
The Conversation - September 2018
Increasing acts of violence against news media outlets—in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere—demonstrate an increasing hostility toward the press, but are nothing new. As Professors Jennifer E. Moore of the University of Minnesota Duluth and Michael Socolow at the University of Maine explained in this piece for The Conversation, violent acts against the media are as old as our nation, even if we are not accustomed to experiencing it due to an era largely devoid of the partisan rancor that was once a hallmark of American journalism – and which seems to have returned.
What Is Lost When a Museum Vanishes? In Brazil, a Nation’s Story
New York Times – September 16, 2018
Parts of Brazil’s National Museum, a 200-year-old Rio de Janeiro institution, still smolder from the firethat consumed some 90 percent of the collection.
The thought of loss of millions of objects —indigenous languages no longer spoken, artistic pieces of cultural history, thousands of record that document the story of a culture—is devastating.
Institutions like the National Museum are repositories the narrative of who we are, where we come from, where we belong—as nations, communities, individuals.
CALLS FOR PAPERS
CFP: Best Journalism & Mass Communication History Book
The Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication History Division is seeking entries the award for the best journalism and mass communication history book in 2018. Only first editions with a 2018 copyright date will be accepted by Feb. 2, 2019. Submit four copies of each book along with the author’s mailing address, telephone number, and email address to:
Lisa Burns, AEJMC History Book Award Chair
Quinnipiac University
275 Mount Carmel Ave., CE-MCM
Hamden, CT, 06518.
Direct questions to Lisa.Burns@quinnipiac.edu.
CFP: Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History Competition
Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication History Division is seeking innovative teaching practices for its 2019 AEJMC Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History competition. Winners will present their ideas at the 2019 conference teaching panel. Deadline for submissions is February 1, 2019.
RECOMMENDED READING
BOOK: Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People
Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People by Amara Thornton explores the relationship between archaeologists, publishing houses and the British public’s understandings of antiquity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A highly readable and detailed exploration of the institutional networks of archaeological knowledge production, this book will appeal to readers interested in the links between empire, tourism, science and publishing at the turn of the twentieth century.
ARTICLE: Lessons from Online Newspapers from the Early Days of the Web
International Journal of Communication -
Studying the patterns of hyperlinking to explain how online newspapers adapt to new technologies.
The article looks at mainstream news sites of 28 newspapers from 1996 to 2000 as a critical period of adaptation for newspapers on the Web. two distinct strategies were identified: some publications focused on keeping users on their site by having more content and fewer links to outside domains;others saw themselves as hubs directing people to various sources of information.