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課前說明（Preface）：
本課程雖然為「全英文課程」，但強調「破英文，好溝通」（Poor English; Rich Communication），只要願意開口，嘗試表達，相信都可以促進良好溝通。因此，本課程不強調文法正確、發音標準、腔調道地，只在乎是否願意發言表達與嘗試理解。
Although this course is adopting English-only instruction, the instructor emphasizes the idea, "Poor English; Good Communication", which means anyone who is willing to speak and try hard to express can approach a good communication. This course is also content-oriented instead of focusing on grammar, pronunciation and accent. We encourage all participants to start to talk in English, even with plain and simple English.
事實上，對大部分人而言（當然有例外者，如英文老師...），使用「破英文」即可，就能達到溝通的程度，譬如交朋友、推銷產品、介紹理念、闡述構想等。我們從不期待一個「外國人」可以字正腔圓、一字不錯的說中文，我們為何要求自己一定要說出道地美國或英國腔英文呢？更何況，世上的標準英文不是只有美國、英國腔，各地有不同的英文腔調，重點在於使用這個世界語言（lingua franca），能彼此了解即可。人世間還有許語言值得學，許多有趣的事值得做，對多數人而言，「完美英文」並非迫切需要，「破英文」就足夠走天下了。
Term paper on teaching methods of this course
News and teaching and learning methods
Broken English
從商業的角度，強調「破英語」足夠進入全世界
敢於犯錯是學語言的捷徑
English is important
學英文的重要性
Crystal, David. 2000. 英語帝國（English as a Global Language）. Translated by 鄭佳美. 台北: 貓頭鷹
Explain why English has become the global language from the perspective of history and culture.
《 英語的秘密家譜 》(The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English, 2008)
「只有波蘭人會講波蘭語。不過，如果聽到的是英語，我們就沒有辦法這樣下結論了。英語不屬於任何人。現在英語能力不再是國籍的標誌，反而是種期望的象徵，期望受教育、事業成功、成為公職人員、研究科學，或只是深深著迷於好萊塢電影。」（頁349）。
Do you speak English? (A very short clip from the movie "Lucy"(2014))
Globish （全球化英語）
Hon, Jean-Paul Nerriere、David. 2012. 全球化英語：輕鬆和全世界溝通 （Globish the World over）. Translated by 嚴麗娟. 台北: 聯經.
"我們所謂的英語，已經成為各國人士所使用的國際溝通語言；英語是屬於大家的「全球化英語」。「全球化英語」提倡者法國 IBM 前副總裁 Jean-Paul Nerriere 與 David Hon 指出：只要掌握 1500 字、簡單的基本句型，就能和全球人士溝通，連母語人士都要聽我們說話"。
Globish: http://www.globish.com/
Cross-Culture Communication
Cross-culture communication is a key ability to successful business.
陳超明. 2014. 語言管理：面對世界人才大戰的台灣策略. 台北: 聯經.
對於全英語教學方式的反省，指出全英文教學的問題
How to learn any language in six months
提供學習外語的一些技巧。有些事情，知難行易。其實大家都知道熟能生巧，學語言就是「恆心」二字。
About accent and pronunciation
Billie Holiday - Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
一首好聽的老歌，說明一些英文單字，人們有不同的發音。
32 Accents of the English Language
各種腔調的英文。
The Aim of This Course
The course examines the relationships between media and democracy in the global context. During the history, mass media have played an important role in the process of democratization. Their functions include offering public forum, information, education and surveillance of government. On the flip side, however, image politics have become standard fare in the contemporary democracy. "A vast aspect of our jobs today--outside of the really major decisions, as big as anything else-- is coping with the media, its sheer scale, weight and constant hyperactivity," said Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Further more, manufacturing consent, the manipulation of media tycoons or spin doctors are blamed of media politics. In this course, we will discuss the controversial interaction between media and democracy. Not only focusing on Taiwan's case, but also we will discuss the issues in a global context to argue that the global media, Internet, social media are shaping today's democracy. We live in the regime of democracy, which is the least worse political system. Almost all of our virtues, values, beliefs are based on the principles of democracy. The more we reflect on it; the more we understand ourselves.
Syllabus
Requirements and Grading
Weekly participation, quizzes, and discussion (25%）
Midterm exam (25%)/ Final exam (25%)
Group presentation (25%)
Office Hours
Monday 10:00-12:00 AM
Friday 10:00-12:00 AM
Presentation Topics (Examples)
How does Facebook affect your life?
Media and Sunflower Movement (2014) in Taiwan
Do you think the Internet promote democracy or not?
Do you think that "Internet democracy" can work?
Do you agree with the concept of "manufacturing consensus"? if yes, why? if not, why?
Introduce a spin doctor.
Introduce a media tycoon.
What is your favorite mass media? Why?
What are problems of Taiwan’s media?
If you want to introduce Taiwan’ s main newspapers to foreign friends, how will you introduce?
What are problems of Mainland China’s media?
What are advantages and disadvantages of democracy?
What are the relationships between media and democracy in Taiwan?
If you are a Presidential aide, how would you help President to increase his popularity?
Presentation Examples from former Class
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Schedule
Introduction
Extended readings
Poor English, Rich communication
胡全威，2013, 〈全英文教學之困境與突破〉，2013卓越教學學術研討會，花蓮東華大學，11月7-8日。
Media
McLuhan, Marshall. 2006. 認識媒體：人的延伸 （Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man）. Translated by 鄭明萱. 台北: 貓頭鷹
Levinson, Paul. 2000. Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium （數位麥克魯漢）. Translated by 宋偉航. 台北: 貓頭鷹.
Zengotita, Thomas de. 2011. 媒體上身：媒體如何改變你的世界與生活方式（Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It）. 台北: 貓頭鷹.
New Media
Shirky, Clay. 2011. 鄉民都來了：無組織的組織力量（Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations）. 台北: 貓頭鷹.
Gillmor, Dan. 2004. We the Media : Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People (草根媒體--部落格傳奇). 1st ed. Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly.
Bilton, Nick. 2011. 一位數位移民的告白（I Live in the Future and Here's How It Works: Why Your World）. Translated by 楊雅婷、王惟芬、黃柏恆. 台北: 行人文化實驗室.
Internet and Democracy
Clay Shirky, How the Internet will (one day) transform the Government?
Internet and Democracy (Debate ): Whether does Internet threaten democracy or not?
The problems of Democracy
What's gone wrong with democracy? （The Economist）
Is American democracy headed to extinction? （Washington Post）
Politics and the Media
The media and democracy: Theory and History (Michigan University)
大眾媒介與政治傳播（政治學）
Thesen, Gunnar. 2014. "Political Agenda Setting as Mediatized Politics? Media–Politics Interactions from a Party and Issue Competition Perspective." The International Journal of Press/Politics. no. 19 (2):181-201.
# Article 1: Social media and addiction
# Article 1: Social media and addiction
Assigned reading
Extended readings
MOOC
Facebook and Smart Phone
Kirkpatrick, David. 2011. Facebook臉書效應：從0到7億的串連 the Facebook Effect: The inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World.Translated by 李芳齡. 台北: 天下雜誌.
Report: Ten Years of Facebook
Song: Facebook addiction
Interesting
Discussion
How do we use Facebook happily?
# Article 2: Internet and democracy
# Article 2: Internet and democracy
Assigned reading
Extended readings
Sunflower Movement
Hong Kong Pro-democracy Protest(2014)
Electronic Democracy
Shirky, Clay. 2011. 鄉民都來了：無組織的組織力量（Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations）. 台北: 貓頭鷹.
Gillmor, Dan. 2004. We the Media : Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People (草根媒體--部落格傳奇). 1st ed. Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly.
How Social Media Accelerated Tunisia’s Revolution: An Inside View
Sunstein, Cass R. 2007. Republic.Com 2.0. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Republic.com (2003), Chapter 1
中譯：網路共和國。
Cary, Mary Kate. 2010. 5 Ways New Media Are Changing Politics. U.S. News
Recommended watching
# Article 3 Gossip and Tabloid
Assigned reading
Extended readings
Gossip
Goodman, Robert F., Ze Ben, x02be, and Aharon ev. 1994. Good Gossip. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas.
"Twenty-two scholars show how gossip contributes to community cohesion and helps individuals better understand their own predicaments, problems, and personal idiosyncrasies in light of knowledge about the life experiences of others. Without gossip, the authors show, we would have no access to such knowledge."
Solove, Daniel J. 2011. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet（隱私不保的年代： 網路的流言蜚語、人肉搜索、網路罷凌和私密窺探）. 台北: 博雅書
Entertainment
Postman, Neil. 1986/2007. Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (娛樂至死：追求表象、歡笑和激情的電視時代). Translated by 蔡承志. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. (台北): Penguin Books(貓頭鷹).
Schultz, David. 2012. Politainment: The Ten Rules of Contemporary Politics: A Citizens' Guide to Understanding Campaigns and Elections: Politainment: The Ten Rules of Contemporary Politics.
Recommended video
Gossip (2000)
The Sociology of Gossip: Elaine Lui at TEDxVancouver
# Article 4 Edward Snowden and CCTV
Assigned reading
Extended readings
Edward Snowden
Greenwald, Glenn. 2014. 政府正在監控你：史諾登揭密 （No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, the US.）. Translated by 林添貴. 台北: 時報 （Henry Holt & Co）.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things'
UN General Assembly adopts Germany and Brazil’s anti-spying resolution
東鳥. 2013. 失控的正當性：接密史諾登背後的超規模全球監聽. 台北: 上奇資訊.
Julian Assange
Assange, Julian. 2012. 我是亞桑傑：維基解密創辦人的真實告白（Julian Assange: The Unauthorized Autobiography）. 台北: 天下遠見.
CCTV
Privacy
Solove, Daniel J. 2011. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet（隱私不保的年代： 網路的流言蜚語、人肉搜索、網路罷凌和私密窺探）. 台北: 博雅書
Alderman, Ellen, and Caroline Kennedy. 2001. 隱私的權利（the Right to Privacy）. 台北: 商周.
Calvert, Clay. 2000. Voyeur Nation : Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture, Critical Studies in Communication and in Cultural Industries Series.（偷窺狂國家） Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.（台北：商周）。
Extended watching
# Article 5 Paparazzi and watchdog
Assigned reading
Extended readings
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14045952
胡全威，新聞自由與言論自由
大眾媒體對民主政治的功能 （Functions of media in a democracy）
Class Note （中文）
# Article 6 Censorship in China
Assigned reading
E. H., How Does China censor the Internet, The Economist, April 21, 2013.
Extended readings
Ng, Jason Q. 2014. 微博不能說的關鍵詞 （Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China’s Version of Twitter (and Why)）. Translated by 何大明. 台北: 左岸.
The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship：How the Communist Party’s Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World
China's Government Is Scaring Foreign Journalists Into CensoringThemselves
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115851/censorship-china-how-western-journalists-censor-themselves
何清漣(He Qinglian)，「霧鎖中國」。台北：黎明文化出版，2007。
http://heqinglian.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Fog-of-Censorship.pdf （English Version）
Michelle Obama talks about free speech at Peking University in China
"It is so important for information and ideas to flow freely over the Internet and through the media,” Obama said. "Because that’s how we discover the truth, that’s how we learn what’s really happening in our communities, in our country and our world.”
Censorship in Taiwan
Class note （中文）
# Article 7
Assigned reading
Extended readings
Botton, Alain de. 2014. 新聞的騷動：狄波頓的深入報導與慰藉（the News）. 台北: 先覺.
Holiday, Ryan. 2013. Trust Me, I’m Lying：Confessions of a Media Manipulator （被新聞出賣的世界：「相信我，我在說謊」，一個媒體操縱者的告白）. Translated by 張嚴心. 台北: 臉譜.
Recommended watching
Class note （中文）
# Article 8: Political Pundits
Assigned reading
Class note (中文)
# Article 9
Assigned reading
Extended readings
Bettig, Ronald V., and Jeanne Lynn Hall. 2012. Big Media, Big Money : Cultural Texts and Political Economics （大媒體的金權遊戲：為什麼有權力的人都想要搞媒體？）. 2nd ed. Lanham, Md. （台北）: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. （大雁文化）.
Cross-Strait Media Deals Spark Concern in Taiwan
Recommended watching
# Article 10
Assigned reading
Recommended video
# Article 11
Assigned reading
inwei, Zhou Qingan & Mo. 2012. How 21st-Century China Sees Public Diplomacy as a Path to Soft Power. Global Asia: A Journal of the East Asia Foundation
Extended readings
SPECIAL REPORT-How China's shadowy agency is working to absorb Taiwan
John J. Mearsheimer, "Say Goodbye to Taiwan," The National Interest, March-April, 2014
Hsiao, Tina. 2014. "10 Things Taiwan Does Better Than Anywhere Else." CNN, January 17, 2014.
# Article 12 Problems of Taiwan's Media
Assigned reading
Extended readings
The News Lens, a Taiwanese media startup, wants to move the island away from gutter journalism
蘇蘅，網路學運 媒體走到分水嶺，聯合報，4月6日。
They can't handle the truth, Los Angeles Times
中譯：他們無能處理事實
新聞置入性行銷 The News Placement Marketing
Postman, Neil. 1986. Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books.
林照真. 2009. 收視率新聞學：台灣電視新聞商品化. 臺北: 聯經.
電視新聞重複報導醜聞、八卦、娛樂消息，忽略國際新聞，因為「收視率」的緣故（esp. p.141）。
Extended watching
課堂筆記（中文）
# Article 13: We the Media
Assigned reading
All the news that's fit to blog/ The Guardian
Review: We the Media
Extended readings
Gillmor, Dan. 2004. We the Media : Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People (草根媒體--部落格傳奇). 1st ed. Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly.
Group Presentation (Examples)(25%)
B (Tim, Brian, Wating, Yuri)
You (Jocelyn, Jason, Sarmi, Judith)
Special (Helen, Scott, May, David)
MDGC (David, Lulu, Albee, Vivian, Charlie)
Aplus (Lily, Sunny, Stella, 泊全)
ABC (Jason, Jeremy, Sara, Debby)
Puppy （Christy, Linda, Lydia, Joyce, Jim）
Final Exam (25%)
Form
•Multiple Choice Questions
Part I: 20 questions (assigned readings + lecture slides)
•4 points each
Part II: 10 questions (international news)
•2 points each
Other resources
Alternative Journalism
Taiwan's English News Sites
Focus Taiwan (Central News Agency)
Citizen/Alternative Journalism (Taiwan)
Online News
l Some other relevant websites
Recommended readings
Postman, Neil. 1986/2007. Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (娛樂至死：追求表象、歡笑和激情的電視時代). Translated by 蔡承志. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. (台北): Penguin Books(貓頭鷹).
傳播的媒介限制了傳播的內容，電視傾向傳達娛樂性的影像與議題，無法提供印刷文字式的思維
Bourdieu, Pierre. 2012. 布赫迪厄論電視. Translated by 林志明. 台北: 麥田.
非常簡明扼要，批判電視文化的書，作者為影響力非常大的社會學家。
張宏源、蔡念中等. 2005. 媒體識讀. 台北: 亞太.
成露茜、羅曉南. 2009. 批判的媒體識讀. 台北: 正中.
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