J6211-001 Communication and International Development Spring 2006 Professor Bella Mody 203 B Armory mody@colorado.edu Office hours 2-3 PM Tues and by appointment Class meetings T 11-1.30PM Armory 1B01 3 cr. Course description: This graduate course focuses on the historical and present day causes of underdevelopment and maldevelopment in the Three Quarters World (see attached map in hard copy version to be distributed in class). It then analyses whether, under what conditions and how communication media can contribute to addressing the root causes of development problems. Goals: After completing this course, students will be able to stand on the shoulders of the giants who went before rather than re-invent the wheel. You will be able to a. describe and analyze the literature on media applications for international development, and then b. produce publication-worthy research papers which address gaps in previous scholarly literature Method: A typical class session will consist of student presentations and critiques of the readings, instructor presentations and an occasional video or guest presenter. Requirements Required texts: 1. Philip McMichael. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2004 3rd ed 2. Pradip Thomas and Zaharon Nain eds. Who Owns the Media. Malaysia:Southbound, 2005 3. Srinivas Melkote and H Leslie Steeves. Communication for Development in the Third World. Delhi: Sage 2nd ed. Reading strategies Schedule 6 hours of reading time outside class for a 3 credit course: you may find the following reading strategies helpful: a. Write down everything you know about this topic before you start reading on it. b. Read the first paragraph, the first line of each following paragraph and the last full paragraph: now write down the outline of the paper. You should get the skeleton of the argument is and how it is constructed.. c. Skim through the middle of each page: speed read. Highlight interesting thoughts and possible sections you might quote. You are getting a feel for how the argument is developed, how flesh is put on the bare bones of the skeleton. 1 d. Now read the full paper through: Write comments or questions in the margin so you can review the paper easily when you want to review it. e. Write your summary of the main points and staple it to the paper. f. If the paper is long and difficult to follow, take a break and come back to it when your mind is fresh. g. Explain the main points of the paper to a friend: the more you engage with the paper in different modes (reading, writing, talking), the more memory traces in the brain you are creating, and the higher the chances that you will recall the content. News media: Please read/browse/watch/listen to a comprehensive news source daily to be current with media, economics, politics and cultural issues. Good sources are http://iht.com http://www.democracynow.org http://news.bbc.co.uk http://nytimes.com http://ipsnews.net UN wire (Sign up at www.smartbrief.com/un_wire ) KGNU 88.5FM community radio in Boulder provides the BBC news every weekday from 6-7AM and 4.30-5.30PM, and on weekends (Sat-Sun) from 6-7PM. Democracy Now is transmitted from 7-8AM on weekdays. Web and library research: You must be familiar with how to conduct electronic searches for research literature. Please see Stephanie Lichtenauer the Journalism librarian with your draft research paper topic so she can help you to review the literature. Research paper This is a literature review and analysis paper. The following is one illustration of an acceptable paper. You are free to propose alternative topics that fit in with the course topic along with identification of a journal where you plan to submit your work for publication. Submit an abstract by Feb 14 with references and accessible literature to be reviewed per section Example: Your paper needs to be organized into the following sections: -Purpose: ex. To understand the root causes and factors leading to underdevelopment in country W or Region Y; to investigate whether and how communication media X can be harnessed to aid in ---- (e.g. Reduction of poverty or gender discrimination or ethnic conflict or to promote agricultural growth, health education, etc.) -Organization of paper -Research method: Search of secondary research sources by…. -Findings -historical and present-day causes of underdevelopment and mal-development -communication media infrastructure in the country -selection of one development foci amenable to resolution by media: justification 2 - how you recommend media be used to address this development problem in light of national politics, economics and media infrastructure available: specify ownership, financing, operations, hardware, applications software, user research, impact evaluation Paper format: Use logical section headings. Summarize at the end of each section. Make sure there are transitions between sections. Use the style sheet specified in the journal of your choice consistently. The length of the paper must be no more than 20 double-spaced pages (longer if specified in the journal you have chosen). 25 lines per page, Times New Roman font size 12, 1” margins, one staple, no plastic covers thanks. GRADING No INC grades are possible except in accordance with university policy. 10% of your grade is based on weekly submissions of 3-page double-spaced typed summaries reflecting on the readings (due in class) 50% of your grade is based on 2 tests, a mid-term and a final 40% of your grade is based on your research paper due no later than April 18 in class: you are encouraged to finish it as early as possible to avoid end-of-semester stress. : COURSE POLICIES All written work must be your own. Plagiarism and cheating will result in a failing grade for the work. Students with disabilities should see me in the beginning of the term to make special arrangements. I strongly urge that you complete course requirements on schedule. If unforeseen circumstances prevent this, university policy requires that you sign an agreement specifying when the outstanding work will be completed. Sexual harassment: The University of Colorado policy on sexual harassment applies to all students, staff and faculty. Sexual harassment is unwelcome sexual attention. It can involve intimidation, threats, coercion, or threats to create an environment that is hostile or offensive. Harassment may occur any where on campus and between members of the same or opposite gender and between any combination of members in the campus community. Any person who feels s/he has been harassed should contact the Office of Sexual Harassment at 303-492-2127 or the Office of Judicial Affairs at 303-492-5550. For more information, go to http://www.colorado.edu/sexualharassment/ WEEKLY READING ASSIGNMENTS Jan 17: Introductions Readings: Jan 24: National underdevelopment and mal-development: pre-colonial and colonial era Readings: McMichael Ch 1 3 Jan 31: Post colonial nation states and modernization Readings: McMichael Ch 2 Guest lecture: Professor Hemant Shah, University of Wisconsin Madison Location: tba Race, Mass Communication and “Third World” Nation Building: Academic Networks and Modernization Theory after World War I This project examines the intellectual history of modernization and mass communication theory, a specific development communication model conceived and elaborated in the United States in 1950s and 1960s. Specifically, I examine the ways in which the theory and its assumptions about people, social change, and media effects were inflected by changing ideas in the US academy about race and race relations. Recent research on modernization has begun to show that racial thinking had an important impact on the formulation of modernization theory in the post-war era. However, no one has systematically examined why, how, and with what consequences ideas race and race relations made their way into academic work about introducing mass communication into countries of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (the “third world”) as important elements of making them “modern.” Feb 7: Globalization and anti-globalization Readings: McMichael, pp. xxiii-xxxix, Chs. 3-4 Thomas Tufte, Communicating for what: how globalization and HIV/AIDs push the ComDev agenda. In Oscar Hemer and Thomas Tufte ed. Media and Glocal Change. (E-reserves for 6211 on library web site) UNESCO Adopts Convention to protect diversity http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30714 Sasha Constanza-Chock, The Whole World is Watching: Online Surveillance of Social Movement Organizations in Pradip Thomas ed. pp. 271-292 in Who Owns the Media? La Jornada. Telesur:ACounter-hegemonic project to compete with CNN and UNIVISION. In http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/print.php?artno=1388 Mar 2, 2005 Peter Evans. Counter-hegemonic globalization: transnational social movements in the global political economy. Accepted for publication in Current Sociology. http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/EVANS/evans_pdf/Evans%20Transnational%20Mo vements%20-%20Final%20Draft%2010-10-03.rtf Feb 14: Re-thinking development Readings: McMichael, chs 7, 8 Amy Goodman’s interview with John Perkins, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/03/1435206&mode=thread&tid=25 Nancy Birdsall et al. How to help poor countries. Foreign Affairs, July-Aug 05 (WEBCT) 4 Feb 21: What might development include: theology, spirituality and empowerment? Readings: Melkote Chs. 7, 8, 9; Dan Schiller, Communication and the Crisis: From Neo-liberal to Authoritarian Development? in Pradip Thomas, ed. Pp. 159-173 UNDP Human Development Report 2005 Overview http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/ Click on Overview The right hand panel on this website lists region and country reports for your research papers (ex: Arab Human Development Report 2002, 2003, 2004; Central America 2002, 2003) World Bank World Development Report 2006 Overview (Sept 2006) http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWD RS/EXTWDR2006/0,,contentMDK:20586898~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theS itePK:477642,00.html Also search the World Bank web site (www.worldbank.org) for country and regional reports. This site also has the invaluable resource called World Development Indicators Feb 28: Organizing communication media for national development Readings: Media In World Bank, World Development Report, OUP: 2002 See PDF file of Ch 10 http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTMODELSITE/EXTWDRMODEL /0,,ImgPagePK:64202988~entityID:000094946_01092204010635~pagePK:64217930~pi PK:64217936~theSitePK:477734,00.html Check out World Bank DevComm Team pages at http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTDEVCOMMENG/0,,cont entMDK:20239563~menuPK:34000166~pagePK:34000187~piPK:34000160~theSitePK: 423815,00.html Pradip Thomas and Zharaom Nain, Who Owns the Media . Malaysia: Southbound, 2004. Chs 1,2, 3 (http://finance.yahoo.com) Global Social Divides and their Digital Refractions. Current data compiled from World Bank, Development Report. (WEBCT) March 7: Media in Africa (Southern Africa, Nigeria) and Latin America Readings: From Pradip Thomas ed., Hueva pp. 97-118, Nyamnjoh, pp. 119-134, Fiol 135-158, Musa and Mohammed, 227-248 (For Central America specialists, see Rick Rockwell and Noreene Janus, Media Power in Central America. U of Illinois Press, 2003) 5 March 14: Media in Asia (exs from China, India, Malaysia, Middle East) Readings: Pradip Thomas ed. pp. 179-226, 249-270; 135-158 Karin Wilkins, Communication and Transition in the Middle East, Gazette, 66, 6 2004 pp. 483-496 Bharat Dogra, Right to Information Exposes World Bank Water Deal 11 Nov 2005 http://www.ipsnews.org/print.asp?idnews=30902 Learn about the history of the Freedom of Info Act in the US at http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/foia2.html March 21: Mid term test on class content completed so far March 28: Spring break April 4: Information, Communication and Poverty Eradication Readings: Roxana Barrantes, Analysis of ICT Demand: What is Digital Poverty and How to Measure It? In Hernan Galperin and Judith Marsical ed. IDRC Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives. Peru: IDRC REDIS-DIRSI www.dirso.net (WEBCT) Pablo Accuosto and Niki Johnson. Financing the Information Society in the South Uruguay: 2004 (WEBCT) Simone Cecchini, Poverty Reduction Group, The World Bank, Can Information and Communications technology Applications Contribute to Poverty Reduction? (webCT) Charles Kenny, Juan Navas-Sabater and Christine Qiang, Information and Communication Technologies (webCT) Manne Granqvist, Assessing ICT in Development, in Hemer and Tufte, ed. Media and Glocal Change (WEBCT) Arvind Singhal and others, Lessons learned from the IT Initiatives in the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. In Hemer and Tufte, pp. 427-434 (WEBCT) Praveen Swami. Online jehad. Frontline. Vol:23 Iss:01 URL: http://www.flonnet.com/fl2301/stories/20060127005901300.htm Ron Chepesiuk, Outsourcing the Western Media, Global Journalist, First Quarter 2005 http://www.globaljournalist.org/magazine/2005-1/outsourcing.html From the Tunis World Summit on Information Societies 2005: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4450060.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4446966.stm April 11: Abikok Riak Worldvision Director, Washington D.C. Visiting presenter: How to write successful grants for development work April 18: Entertainment education Thomas Tufte, in Oscar Hemer and Tufte ed. Media and Glocal Change Ch. 9 Entertainment Education in Development Communication 23 (WEBCT) Clemencia Rodriguez, in Hemer and Tufte, From the Sandinista Revolution to telenovelas, Ch. 23 (WEBCT) 6 Ruth Mandel, The Political Economy of a Kazakh Soap Opera, In Faye Ginsburg ed. Media Worlds, Berkeley, Ca: U of California Press 2002 (WEBCT) April 25 Media for ethnic and national integration Helmer and Tufte, Ch 12 (WEBCT) Mody, National News About Foreign Genocide, in Uncovering Darfur (WEBCT) May 2 Health Communication Hemer and Tufte, Chs. 24, 25 (WebCT) Mody, More than “best practices” for HIV-AIDS control http://spot.colorado.edu/~mody/docs/IAMCR%20Tapei%202005.ppt For those interested in this topic, see Leslie Snyder in Mody ed. Handbook of International and Development Communication, Sage 2003 Is there a future for telemedicine? Thelancet.com, 359, issue 9322, http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673602088451/fulltext May 8 1.30: Final test Armory 1B01 covers class content since the mid-term test: there are no cumulative tests. How to get more mileage out of your research papers: -conference presentations 1. Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Graduate Student Conference April 7-8, 2006 Princeton University Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Development, Diversity and Democracy We are soliciting papers from graduate students in anthropology, economics, law, history, sociology, political science, philosophy and other relevant disciplines on topics related to our conference theme of 'Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Development, Diversity and Democracy'. The conference offers an opportunity for graduate students pursuing scholarship in international and regional studies to move beyond the disciplinary boundaries that structure our approaches and thoughts, and to engage in inter-disciplinary interaction and conversation. --We are able to offer a limited number of travel grants. --PIIRS is in the process of publishing a monograph with selected papers from last year's conference, and will again consider doing so this year. The panels will focus on the following topics: - Power, violence and development - Poverty and the city - The ethics of globalization - Development and natural resources - Developmentalisms past and present - Identities and social movements - Globalization and difference - Justice, law and culture 7 - Ethnicities and institutions - Democratization, violence and power - Structures of representation - Democracy and (in)equality - The ends of modernity - Power, NGOs and civil society Please submit abstracts of 400-500 words online at www.princeton.edu/~gradconf <http://www.princeton.edu/%7Egradconf> by January 28, 2006. Abstracts should specify methodological approach, with the goal of communicating to interdisciplinary audiences, and include a short bibliography (not included in word count). Questions can be sent to gradconf@princeton.edu <mailto:gradconf@princeton.edu>. Please feel free to forward this call for papers to your colleagues. 2. Mapping the field of Communication for Development and Social Change Conference in Brisbane Australia Call for Papers Jul 5-8 2006 Submissions due by Feb 1: Abstracts for full paper presentations: 150-200 words; full papers 1 June 2006 Panel proposals: 300 word rationale, 150 word abstract of each panelist’s prez Workshops you want to conduct: 3-5 pp. single spaced Email submissions to Dr Shuang Liu School of Journalism and Communication U of Queensland s.liu@uq.edu.au 3. Submission to international division of Association for Educ in J and MC deadline April 1, 2006 for annual meeting in San Francisco www.aejmc.org JOURNALS http://www.colorado.edu/Journalism/globalmedia/links.htm Examples: Global Media and Communication http://gmc.sagepub.com Illustration of blind peer reviews requested by this journal Referee’s report Referee’s name Manuscript title: Please return your comments by ---- ( 2 months hence) In evaluating a paper, please bear in mind the following criteria: Importance of the subject Originality of the approach Soundness of the scholarship 8 Degree of interest to the journal readership Clarity of the organization Strength of the argument Writing style You may find it helpful to rank these on a 1-5 scale (5 = high) Recommendation: please tick one ACCEPT AS IT STANDS ACCEPT WITH MINOR REVISIONS RESUBMIT/REQUIRES MAJOR REVISION (Please select only if paper has real promise) A B C REJECT (Please supply some comments that can be sent to the author rather than a bare rejection) D REFER TO A SPECIALIST E MORE SUITED TO ANOTHER JOURNAL (If possible say which) F New journal: Communication for Development and Social Change http://www.sjc.uq.edu.au and http://www.hamptonpress.com Jobs http://www.internationaljobs.org/index.html NGO on information access for everyone: www.internews.org, Website on communication for development: www.comminit.com www.afronets.org www.itu.int/ Also click on http://www.itu.int/wsis/ (on the World Summit for Information Society) and the Telecom development bureau of the ITU at http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/index.asp www.unicef.org www.fao.org www.unesco.org/ 9