How would you define and explain globalization historically and within today’s political and economic structure?

Media Essay

You must pick ONE question and answer in a coherent essay that presents a thesis.

Your essay in total should be no longer than 4 pages, and no less than 3 pages. Thus, make sure to be concise. You will get points taken off for turning in an exam with more than 4 pages. The references page is not included in the page count.

Please put the essay (double-spaced and 12-point font) into one Word document, and your list of references should be on the a different page. Your essay should present a thesis thesis (introduction/conclusion) and evidence (body paragraphs).

Please make sure that your essay is not simply opinion-based. Support your claims with specific evidence. You should make direct references (cited correctly) to course material.

Remember, to balance your essay with examples from the readings, lessons and films/video clips. Lots of examples and films/video clips to choose from, you can’t talk about everything, so make sure to pick a few examples that best illustrate your main point. Therefore, you have to be very concise with your essay.

Do NOT regurgitate all of your notes

Introduction: The purpose of the introduction is to tell the reader about your topic, your argument, and its importance. You may define specific concepts related to the subject and stress the importance of the subject. Do not start with your findings on online, or a dictionary definition.

Body section: You may create the structure of an essay based on a specific question and think about making good transitions between paragraphs for the logical flow of your ideas/arguments. The body section is not a descriptive list of the summarized articles/lessons that you have reviewed. The used specific examples and events should focus on your specific interest and present a relationship among existing evidence, and relating them to your work, leading to the focal interest of the paper.

Gathering and organizing your evidence:

oTake your own notes of articles/lessons and evaluate them to organize the structure of the paper.

oBe sure to include citations in your notes. If you directly quote other authors’ ideas, you should provide quotation marks and page numbers clearly in your in-text citation. You should clearly distinguish your ideas and text from those of the other authors to avoid plagiarism.

oFor instance:

• According to Kim (2009), “students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time” (p. 199).
• “Students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time” (Kim, 2009, p. 199).
• For multimedia, I recommend a timestamp for attributions (Kim, 2009, 01:02:25).
• If no date is available, you can write N.D. instead of the year.

Conclusion:

oThis section addresses what you learn from the writing, and what parts of the information you like to emphasize to educate the readers.

References:

oA list of references

oOrganized alphabetically

oFormatted in APA style

Essay Questions:

1) Explain the role that neoliberalism plays in international communications.

1.To do this, you’ll have to explain what it is

2.Provide specific examples of neoliberal policies

3.Map the relationship between neoliberalism and the political economy of communications

2) How would you define and explain globalization historically and within today’s political and economic structure?

1.To answer this, explain how globalization can be seen as a historical process. Pay attention to the reading and lessons that highlight how globalization has been talked about historically, and how three stages have helped globalization processes continue to rapidly grow. Hint: Are today’s debates about globalization any different or are they similar to historical debates about globalization?

2.Assuming the Internet has played a major role in speeding up the processes of globalization, how has the Internet played a major role in today’s political and economic structure? How does the concept of electronic colonization fit into this discussion? (Hint: see readings)

3.How does globalization shape the material reality of marginalized people in the Global South? (e.g. global labor, etc.)

3) Discuss how the readings on U.S. foreign policy and media, and war and media are connected. What did these readings, films, lessons and video examples tell us about the relationship between journalistic practices, news content, politics, and international conflict?

To answer this question, address the following:

1.How do the ideological positions of media organizations shape the way they frame narratives around war and conflict?

2.U.S. foreign policy and its relation to issues of terrorism and surveillance

3.What is the relationship between propaganda, journalism and public relations?

4) Based on what you have learned in this course, how would you explain the problems that we face in the post-9/11 political environment?

To answer this question, address the following:

1.How have current discussions on immigration and terrorism been shaped by 9/11?

2.Discuss the media in the post-9/11 political environment and how the media have impacted the ways in which we think about the Middle East, Arabs, terrorism and 9/11. Make sure to highlight specific examples covered in the readings and course material.

3.Consider the relationships between the U.S. matrix (see lesson), terrorism, immigration issues, and the connections between domestic and international politics (see the lesson and embedded videos). What do these lessons/examples tell us about the post-9/11 era?

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