SMST30506A The Media and Society 3 : Local and Global

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SMST305-06A The Media and Society 3 Local and
Global

• Sean Cubitt and Geoff Lealand

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Some introductory course information and advice
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Course Description

• introduction to the processes of intertextuality,
  interconnectivity and the cultural flows which
  characterise media and society in the late 20th
  and 21st centuries
• concepts of globalisation - texts, policy, media
  industries, and global and local audiences
• More on what this means, shortly

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• Sean can be found at I4.19 (fourth floor, I
  Block). Meetings by email appointment
• Geoff can be found at I4.27. Meetings during
  office hours (Wed 10-1), or via email appointment
• Your tutor will either be Ying Wang or Dean
  Ballinger or Kim Barbour. Tutorial lists will be
  distributed today

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Lectures

• Take place every Monday 1-3pm, in LG.02
• You are expected to attend every lecture. We will
  place lecture outlines and additional material on
  the SMST website (www.waikato.ac.nz/film), under
  this course. Nevertheless, such material is no
  substitute for the actual lectures!

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Tutorials

• You will need to choose a tutorial. As we seek an
  even distribution of people across the 4-5
  tutorials we offer, you may not get your first
  choice.
• Tutorials are compulsory. They offer
  opportunities to extend lecture material, further
  support and advice, chances for you to
  contribute--and most importantly--spaces for you
  to do group presentations.

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Course Readings

• This is a collection of interesting and
  up-to-date articles on the topics of the local
  and global, available from Campus Copy for
  18.20. You are expected to read these in
  advance of lectures/tutorials and, in respect of
  your tutorial assignments and final essay, you
  will have to show that you have understood at
  least three articles or chapters very well.

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Assessment

• Small group (up to 4 people) presentations
  (rolling dates, starting Week 2)
• Associated reading report (rolling dates)
• ICONS essay April 10 more on this shortly
• Final essay June 8
• N.B. dept.policy on late assignments 5 penalty
  per day.

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Expectations for assignments

• Successful group work will demonstrate your
  ability to work well with others,do your fair
  share, show you can understand and explain
  complex ideas, have a high level of oral and
  written communication and creativity.
• Individual assignments will show that you can
  create and defend your own positions and
  responses to course content and readings, can
  write well, indicate where you have quoted or
  paraphrased source material, and used correct
  grammar and English expression

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The ICONS essay

• This essay will enable you to explore issues of
  the local and global from your own experience.
  You need to write about something (a person,
  building, monument, natural feature, cultural
  practice) that you consider to be local to its
  setting ie it is unique to its location, or not a
  part of global culture.
• OHT examples of New Zealand icons

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The ICONS essay will also enable you to locate
yourself in the relationship between the local
and the global

• What is local in my life
• my examples
• I was born in New Zealand (Hawera, South
  Taranaki)
• I regard myself as a New Zealander (or, more
  properly, as Pakeha)
• etc
• Your experiences?

• What is global in my life
• my examples
• As an academic, I move easily around the world
  (2-3 trips per year)
• All arrangements have been made (electronically)
  in advance
• etc
• Your experiences?

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Why does it matter?

• How does globalisation impact on us?
• What are the positives, in NZ? (the perfect
  globalised state?
• If there are negative effects, how can we change
  them?
• Are there any more ethical alternatives?
• How does change come about?
• What work does media do?