B.A. in Multimedia and Mass Communication Global Media and Conflict Resolution Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the TY BAMMC Journalism syllabus under the CBCS scheme, revision R-2019-20. The University has not published an NEP 2020 syllabus for the third year of this degree, and still examines Semesters V and VI on this one, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Global Media and Conflict Resolution
Module I: Evolution of Global Media
- North – South Divide, Imbalance in Global flows NWICO, MacBride Commission, Failure of NANAP Global Media Conglomerates, parachute journalism and embedded journalism Post Truth and avalanche of fake news Information Disorder
Module II: Media profiles, issues and analysis
- Contemporary Role of Global News Agencies Media in Europe Media in USA and Australia Media in Russia Media in Africa : talking drums; community radio
Module III: Media profiles ,issues and analysis
- Media in China Media in Japan Media in North Korea Media in Singapore Media in the Middle East and Role of Aljazeera
- Media in Malaysia
Module IV: Conflict Resolution
- Changing nature of conflict Media driver of peace or driver of conflict The shifting media landscape, Challenges for independent media The role media can play in conflict resolution and peace promotion Case study: The Kashmir Conflict and LTTE conflict in Sri Lanka
Module V: Media Information Literacy
- Five Laws of MIL MIL and youth radicalization in cyberspace Preventing violent extremism MIL to tackle social polarization of Europe Encryption / Cryptography media communication landscape
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 1 Understanding Global Media by Terry Flew, Red Globe Press
- 2 Media and Conflict Resolution: A Framework for Analysis by EytanGilboa Deutsche Welle – 3. Global Media Forum (2009) Conflict Prevention in the Multimedia Age
- 3 How to Understand and Confront Hate Speech Pankowski, Rafal (2007)
- 4 How media can be an instrument of peace in conflict-prone settings, drawn from Media in Conflict Prevention authored by Michelle Betz.1 Additional inputs to this paper by Katy Williams.
- 5 The Media Were American: U.S. Media in Decline. Jeremy Tunstall (2008} Oxford Press
- 22 Conflict-sensitive reporting: state of the art; a course for journalists and journalism educators (2009)17 UNESCO publication
- 23 Triumph Of The Image: The Media's War in The Persian Gulf, A Global Perspective (Critical studies in communication and in the cultural industries) by Hamid Moulana.
- 24 An indispensable intervention for countering radicalization and violent extremism, Jagtar Singh
- 25 The Kashmir Problem and Its Resolution, Wajahat Habibullah, United States Institute of Peace
- 26 .Social Media and Conflict Prevention By Sheldon Himelfarb, United States Institute of Peace. 2012.
- 27 How social media is changing the way we see conflict By Kym Beeston. 2014.
- 28 A New Era of Global Protest Begins By Rajesh Makwana. Transcend Media
- 29 Tweets of Contention: How Social Media is Changing Political Conflict By Thomas Zeitzoff. Political Violence.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.A. in Multimedia and Mass Communication under NEP 2020. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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