Posted: December 28th, 2014

1. Chouliaraki and Blaagaard (2013) argue that ‘the intervention of ordinary voice into journalism … appears to catalyse … cosmopolitan efficacy’ (p.150). Discuss with reference to an example.2. How do American Cultural Products go about being imperial?orWhy is Manga popular in the West, but not Manhua? Discuss how useful theories of cultural imperialism are in explaining this………………….

1. Chouliaraki and Blaagaard (2013) argue that ‘the intervention of ordinary voice into journalism … appears to catalyse … cosmopolitan efficacy’ (p.150). Discuss

with reference to an example.2. How do American Cultural Products go about being imperial?orWhy is Manga popular in the West, but not Manhua? Discuss how useful
theories of cultural imperialism are in explaining this………………….

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1. Chouliaraki and Blaagaard (2013) argue that ‘the intervention of ordinary
voice into journalism … appears to catalyse … cosmopolitan efficacy’ (p.
150). Discuss with reference to an example.
2. How do American Cultural Products go about being imperial?
or
Why is Manga popular in the West, but not Manhua? Discuss how useful
theories of cultural imperialism are in explaining this.
3. How do media rituals sustain a ‘subjunctive orientation’ to the ‘social
good’? Discuss with reference to an example.
4. Does ‘communicative capitalism’ (Dean 2010) undermine the
democratizing and cosmopolitan momentum of mobile publics? How?
5. It is common to refer to media objects as “texts.” With reference to
ownership, production, prosumerism, and other concepts from the
readings, explain how media objects are and are not texts in the way a
book or newspaper article is.
or
What are the roles of producers and audience in transmedia/polymedia?
Paying attention to storytelling, marketing, and fan production, analyze
how different media affect flows of power, meaning and money.
6. ‘Central to the social construction of environmental issues is the idea that
these do not arise and fall according to some fixed, asocial, self-evident set
of criteria’ (Hannigan, 1995: 63). Examine the role of different types of
media in the social construction of environmental issues. Discuss with
reference to one particular example.
7. Why is it difficult for global media to mediate disasters in a way that
addresses Sontag’s call for disaster audiences to ‘set aside the sympathy –
for a reflection on how our privileges are located on the same map as
their suffering’ (2003: 91)? How could this ideal be addressed?
8. How do audiences and producers shape each other? Where does meaning
and power come from, and how does it flow in a globalized information
environment?
9. What is it about video games as a medium that makes the use of it for
social justice such a contested issue?

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