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News Around the World :: Reading around the world

The previous version of 'News Around the World' was a bit different. Tim Markham taught the course and produced reading lists and materials for that syllabus. This year's course is different but Tim's reading list is still useful so, here it is:

The relationship between news media and society

·         Anderson, P (2007), “Competing Models of Journalism and Democracy”, in Anderson and Ward (eds), The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate: 39-50

·         Stevenson, N (2002), Understanding Media Cultures, London, Sage: 47-74

·         Gripsrud, J (2002), Understanding Media Culture, Arnold, New York: 225-310

·         Nossek, H (2004), “Our News and Their News”, Journalism 5(3): 343-368

·         Le, E (2006), “Collective Memories and Representations of National Identity in Editorials”, Journalism Studies 7(5): 708-728

·         Örnebring, H and Jönsson, A (2004), “Tabloid Journalism and the Public Sphere: A Historical Perspective on Tabloid Journalism”, Journalism Studies 5(3): 283-295

·         McChesney, R (1998), “The Political Economy of Global Communication”, in McChesney, Wood and Foster (eds) Capitalism and the Information Age, Washington DC, Monthly Review Press: 1-26

Globalisation and its discontents

·         McNair, B (2005), “The Emerging Chaos of Global News Culture”, in Allan, S, Journalism: Critical Issues, Milton Keynes, Open University Press: 151-166

·         Lash, S and Lury, C (2007), Global Culture Industry, London, Polity: 1-15

·         Straubhaar, J (2003), “Globalization, Media Imperialism and Dependency as Communications Frameworks”, in Anokwa, Lin and Salwen (eds), International Communication, Belmont, Thomson: 225-238

·         Thomson, A, White, P and Kitley, P (2008), “’Objectivity’ and ‘Hard News’ Reporting Across Cultures”, Journalism Studies 9(2): 212-228

·         Deuze, M (2007) “Journalism in Liquid Modern Times”, Journalism Studies 8(4): 671-679

·         Rantanen, T (2007) “The Cosmopolitization of News”, Journalism Studies 8(6): 843-861

·         Deuze, M (2006) “Ethnic Media, Community Media and Participatory Culture”, Journalism 7(3): 262-280

·         Fürsich, E (2002) “How Can Global Journalists Represent the ‘Other’?”, Journalism 3(1): 57-84

·         Thurman, N (2007), “The Globalization of Journalism Online”, Journalism 8(3): 285-307

China and East Asia

·         Chang, T and Tai, Z (2003), “Freedom of the Press in the Eyes of the Dragon”, in Anokwa, Lin and Salwen (eds), International Communication, Belmont, Thomson: 24-46

·         Tong, J (2007), “Guerilla Tactics of Investigative Journalists in China”, Journalism 8(5): 530-535

·         Xin Xin (2008), “Structural Change and Journalism Practice: Xinhua News Agency in the Early 2000s”, Journalism Practice 2(1): 46-63

·         Xin Xin (2006), “A Developing Market in News: Xinhua News Agency and Chinese Newspapers”, Media, Culture & Society 28(1): 45-66

·         Curtin, M (2005), “Murdoch’s Dilemma, or What’s the Price of TV in China”, Media, Culture & Society 27(2): 155-175

·         Kim, K (2006), “Obstacles to the Success of Female Journalists in Korea”, Media, Culture & Society 28(1): 123-141

·         Yada, Y (2007), “Journalism in Japan”, in Anderson and Ward (eds), The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate: 175-190

·         Ang, P et al (2003), “Globalization and Media Development in Asia’s Four Tigers”, in Anokwa, Lin and Salwen (eds), International Communication, Belmont, Thomson: 205-222

·         Hoddie, M (2006), “Minorities in the Official Media: Determinants of State Attention to Ethnic Minorities in the People’s Republic of China”, International Journal of Press/Politics: 11(4): 3-21

·         Lee, C et al (2007), “Party-Market Corporatism, Clientelism and Media in Shanghai”, International Journal of Press/Politics 12(3): 21-42

South and South-east Asia

·         Thussu, D (2007), “The ‘Murdochization’ of News? The Case of Star TV in India”, Media, Culture & Society 29(4): 593-611

·         Sonwalker, P (2002), “’Murdochization’ of the Indian Press: from By-Line to Bottom Line”, Media, Culture & Society 24(6): 821-834

·         Ståhlberg, P (2006), “On the Journalist Beat in India: Encounters with the Near Familiar”, Ethnography 7(1): 47-67

·         Sreekumar, T (2007), “Cyber Kiosks and Dilemmas of Social Inclusion in Rural India, Media, Culture & Society 29(6): 869-889

·         Hanitzsch, T (2005), “Journalists in Indonesia: Educated but Timid Watchdogs”, Journalism Studies 6(4): 493-508

·         Van Leeuwen, T (2006), “Translation, Adaptation, Globalization: The Vietnam News”, Journalism 7(2): 217-237

·         George, C (2005), “The Internet’s Political Impact and the Penetration/Participation Paradox in Malaysian and Singapore”, Media, Culture & Society 27(6): 903-920

·         Karan, K (2006), “What’s News in India?”, in Shoemaker and Cohen (eds), News Around the World, New York, Taylor and Francis: 189-214

·         Ramaprasad, J (2005), “Nepalese Journalists: Idealists, Optimists and Realists”, International Journal of Press/Politics 10(1): 90-108

·         Ramprasad, J and Kelly, J (2003), “Reporting the News from the World’s Rooftop”, Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies 65(3); 291-315

Latin America

·         De Alburquerque, A (2005), “Another ‘Fourth Branch’: Press and Political Culture in Brazil”, Journalism 6(4): 486-504

·         Porto, M (2007), “TV News and Political Change in Brazil: The Impact of Democratization on TV Globo’s Journalism”, Journalism 8(4): 363-384

·         Boczkowski, P and De Santos, M (2007), “When More Media Equals Less News: Patterns of Content Homogenization in Argentina’s Leading Print and Online Newspapers”, Political Communication 24: 167-180

·         Rodríguez, C and Gazi, J (2007), “The Poetics of Indigenous Radio in Colombia”, Media, Culture & Society 29(3): 449-468

·         Herscovitz, H (2004), “Brazilian Journalists’ Perceptions of Media Roles, Ethics and Foreign Influence on Brazilian Journalism”, Journalism Studies 5(1): 71-86

·         Herscovitz, H (2003), “Social and Institutional Influences on News Values and Routines in Brazil”, in Anokwa, Lin and Salwen (eds), International Communication, Belmont, Thomson: 110-128

·         Lule, J (2003), “Waters of Death in Central America”, in Anokwa, Lin and Salwen (eds), International Communication, Belmont, Thomson: 91-109

·         Sutcliffe, J et al (2005), “Women and Crisis Reporting: Television News Coverage of Political Crises in the Caribbean”, International Journal of Press/Politics 10(3): 99-124

Middle East

·         Tsfati, Y et al (2006), “What is Good Journalism? Comparing Israeli Public and Journalists’ Perspectives”, Journalism 7(2): 152-173

·         Pintak, L (2008), “Satellite TV News and Arab Democracy”, Journalism Practice 2(1): 15-26

·         Liebes, T and Kampf, Z (2007), “Routinizing Terror: Media Coverage and Public Practices in Israel 2000-2005”, International Journal of Press/Politics 12(1): 108-116

·         Kalb, M and Saivetz, C (2007), “The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media as a Weapon of Asymmetrical Conflict”, International Journal of Press/Politics 12(3): 43-66

·         Alimi, E (2007), “Discursive Contention: Palestinian Media Discourse and the Inception of the ‘First’ Intifada”, International Journal of Press/Politics 12(4): 71-91

·         Korn, A (2004), “Reporting Palestinian Casualties in the Israeli Press: The Case of Haaretz and the Intifada”, Journalism Studies 5(2): 247-262

·         Sezgin, D and Wall, M (2005), “Constructing the Kurds in the Turkish Press: A Case Study of Hürriyet Newspaper”, Media, Culture & Society 27(5): 787-798

·         Boyd, D (2003), “Impact of Electronic Media on the Arab World”, in Anokwa, Lin and Salwen (eds), International Communication, Belmont, Thomson: 239-252

·         Lachover, E (2005), “The Gendered and Sexualized Relationship between Israeli Woman Journalists and their Male News Sources”, Journalism 6(3): 291-311

·         Ali, M (2006), “What’s News in Jordan?”, in Shoemaker and Cohen (eds), News Around the World, New York, Taylor and Francis: 239-258

Western Europe

·         Picard, R (2003), “Press Freedom in Europe”, in Anokwa, Lin and Salwen (eds), International Communication, Belmont, Thomson: 7-23

·         Benson, R (2005), “Mapping Field Variation: Journalism in France and the United States”, in Benson and Neveu (eds), Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field, Cambridge, Polity: 85-112

·         Duval, J (2005), “Economic Journalism in France”, in Benson and Neveu (eds), Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field, Cambridge, Polity: 135-155

·         Mancini, P (2007), “Journalism in Italy”, in Anderson and Ward (eds), The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate: 229-242

·         Christiansen, C (2004), “News Media Consumption among Immigrants in Europe: The Relevance of Diaspora”, Ethnicities 4(2): 185-207

·         Kuhn, R (2007), “Journalism in France”, in Anderson and Ward (eds), The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate: 243-258

·         Nord, L (2007), “Investigative Journalism in Sweden: A Not So Noticeable Noble Art”, Journalism 8(5): 517-521

·         Hickethier, K (2007), “Journalism in Germany”, in Anderson and Ward (eds), The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate: 191-208

·         Arnold, A and Schneider, B (2007), “Communicating Separation? Ethnic Media and Ethnic Journalists as Institutions of Integration in Germany”, Journalism 8(2): 115-136

·         Alarcón, A (2003), “Propaganda in Spanish and French Referendum Campaigns”, in Anokwa, Lin and Salwen (eds), International Communication, Belmont, Thomson: 49-72

·         Bueno, M et al (2007), “The Rise of the Gossip Press in Spain”, Journalism Studies 8(4): 621-633

·         Wilcox, L (2005), “Metro, Info, Haro! Fierce Reactions to Regime Competition in the French Newspaper Industry”, Media, Culture & Society 27(3): 353-369

Central and Eastern Europe

·         Gulyas, A (2003), “Print Media in Post-Communist East Central Europe”, European Journal of Communication 18(1): 81-106

·         Gross, P (2008), “Forward to the Past: The Intractable Problems of Romania’s Media System”, International Journal of Press/Politics 13(2): 141-152

·         Klvana, T (2004), “New Europe’s Civil Society, Democracy and the Media Thirteen Years After: The Story of the Czech Republic”, International Journal of Press/Politics 9(3): 40-55

·         Erjavec, K and Volcic, Z (2007), “The Kosovo Battle: Media’s Recontextualization of the Serbian Nationalistic Discourses, International Journal of Press/Politics 12(3): 67-86

·         Coman, M (2004), “Media Bourgeoisie and Media Proletariat in Post-Communist Romania”, Journalism Studies 5(1): 45-58

·         Zdovc, S and Kovacic, M (2007), “The Paradox of Slovenia: Investigative Journalism During Socialism and Democracy”, Journalism 8(5): 522-529

·         Gross, P (2003), “New Relationships: Eastern European Media and the Post-Communist Political World”, Journalism Studies 4(1): 79-89

·         Jakubowicz, K (2004), “Ideas in our Heads: Introduction of PSB as Part of Media System Change in Central and Eastern Europe”, European Journal of Communication 19(1): 53-74

·         Gross, P (2006), “A Prolegomena to the Study of Romani Media in Eastern Europe”, European Journal of Communication 21(4): 477-497

Russia and Former Soviet Union

·         Becker, J (2004), “Lessons from Russia: A Neo-Authoritarian Media System”, European Journal of Communication 19(2): 139-163

·         Anable, D (2006), “The Role of Georgia’s Media – and Western Aid – in the Rose Revolution”, International Journal of Press/Politics 11(3): 7-43

·         Manzella, J (2005), “The Kyrgyz Republic’s Liminal Media: Assessing a Journalistic Rite of Passage”, Journalism Studies 6(4): 431-443

·         Shafer, R and Freedman, E (2003), “Obstacles to the Professionalization of Mass Media in Post-Soviet Central Asia: A Case Study of Uzbekistan”, Journalism Studies 4(1): 91-103

·         Stephenson, S (2007), “The Changing Face of Women’s Magazines in Russia”, Journalism Studies 8(4): 613-620

·         Lonkila, M and Gladarev, B (2008), “Social Networks and Cellphone Use in Russia: Local Consequences of Global Communication Technology”, New Media and Society 10(2): 273-293

·         Bolotina, N (2006), “What’s News in Russia?”, in Shoemaker and Cohen (eds), News Around the World, New York, Taylor and Francis: 259-282

·         Struckman, S (2006), “The Veiled Women and Masked Men of Chechnya”, Journal of Communication Inquiry 30(4): 337-353

·         Koltsova, O (2001), “News Production in Contemporary Russia: Practices of Power”, European Journal of Communication 16(3): 315-335.

·         Voltmer, K (2000), “Constructing Political Reality in Russia: Izvestiya – Between Old and New Journalistic Practices”, European Journal of Communication 15(4): 469-500

Africa

·         Neher, W (2003), “Development Communication in Africa”, in Anokwa, Lin and Salwen (eds), International Communication, Belmont, Thomson: 133-152

·         Mudhai, O (2007), “Light at the End of the Tunnel? Pushing the Boundaries in Africa, Journalism 8(5): 536-544

·         Ojo, T (2007), “The Nigerian Media and the Process of Democratization”, Journalism 8(5): 545-550

·         Alhassan, A (2005), “Market Valorization in Broadcasting Policy in Ghana, Media, Culture & Society 27: 211-228

·         Mwesige, P (2004), “Disseminators, Advocates and Watchdogs: A Profile of Ugandan Journalists in the New Millennium”, Journalism 5(1): 69-96

·         Waisbord, S (2008), “News Coverage of the Darfur Conflict”, International Journal of Press/Politics 13: 75-80

·         Tomaselli, K and Teer-Tomaselli, R (2008), “Exogenous and Endogenous Democracy: South African Politics and Media”, International Journal of Press/Politics 13: 171-180

·         Setin, E and De Beer, A (2004), “The Level of Journalism Skills in South African Media”, Journalism Studies 5(3): 387-397

·         Jacobs, S (2007), “Big Brother, Africa is Watching”, Media, Culture & Society 29: 851-868

·         Salwen, M (2003), “Dateline Addis Ababa”, in Anokwa, Lin and Salwen (eds), International Communication, Belmont, Thomson: 153-172

United States

·         Kuhn, R (2007), “Journalism in the United States of America”, in Anderson and Ward (eds), The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate: 209-228

·         Nichols, J (2003), “US-Cuba Propaganda Wars”, in Anokwa, Lin and Salwen (eds), International Communication, Belmont, Thomson: 73-88

·         Benson, R (2005), “American Journalism and the Politics of Diversity”, Media, Culture & Society 27(1): 5-20

·         Daniels, G (2006), “The Role of Native American Print and Online Media in the Era of Big Stories”, Journalism 7(3): 321-342

·         Aucoin, J (2007), “Journalistic Moral Engagement: Narrative Strategies in American Muckraking”, Journalism 8(5): 559-572

·         Berkowitz, D (2007), “Professional Views, Community News: Investigative Reporting in Small US Dailies”, Journalism 8(5): 551-558

·         Eshbaugh-Soha, M (2008), “Local Press Coverage of the Presidency”, International Journal of Press/Politics 13(2): 103-119

·         Marriott, S (2007), “American Election Night and the Journalism of Assertion”, Journalism 8(6): 698-717

·         Rodríguez, I (2007), “Telling Stories of Latino Population Growth in the United States: Narratives of Inter-Ethnic Conflict in the Mainstream, Latino and African American Press”, Journalism 8(5): 573-390

·         Schudson, M (2007), “The Concept of Politics in Contemporary US Journalism”, Political Communication 24: 131-142