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Effective international communications is one of the foremost challenges of our times. The past two decades have seen the birth of a technological revolution, which is transforming our lives, and profoundly shaping our societies, our occupations, our leisure, and the very ways we conceptualize the world.

 

News, high culture, and popular culture are increasingly shared across national boundaries, and interpersonal communication has taken on whole new meanings in the age of the Internet. News media have become increasingly global in their audiences, their courses, and their ownership. Graduates capable of critical and creative thinking about new and old media on a global scale are in increasing demand. Corporate managers must communicate constantly with customers, suppliers, and shareholders in every part of the globe. Students must be equipped to understand and to master this rapidly changing environment.

 
 
 

 

The Master of Arts in Global Communications (MAGC) is one of the few MA programs in the world to undertake the systematic study of global communication systems. The massive technological revolution provided by the internet, digitalization, and the economic transformations caused by brand globalization, combined with the intercultural tensions associated with these tendencies, are the focus of the program.

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Jim Bittermann's editorial on the US elections, "La plus grande des campagnes," appeared in the October 21 special edition of the French newspaper Libération.

[AUP - Posted 3 Nov 2008]

 
 

Jayson Harsin was interviewed by Agence France Presse on the Obama and McCain responses to the financial crisis. He also presented research on American Discourses of Economic Rights at the National Communication Association conference in San Diego.

[AUP - Posted 3 Nov 2008]

 
 

Jayson Harsin was interviewed by the French magazine La Croix for his expertise on the use of rumor in contemporary political communication.

[AUP - Posted 4 Oct 2008]

 
 

Routledge has published Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (June 2008), edited by Youna Kim. This book considers the emerging consequences of media consumption in people's everyday life at a time when the political, socio-economic, and cultural forces by which the media operate are rapidly globalizing in Asia.

[AUP - Posted 4 Oct 2008]

 
 

Julie Thomas recently gave a paper on "Museum Exhibitions, Immigration, and French Cultural Policy" at the International Association of Media & Communications Research Conference in Stockholm.

[AUP - Posted 4 Oct 2008]

 
 

Waddick Doyle presented a paper at the The International Association for Media and Communications Research 'Media and Global Divides' Conference in Stockholm in July. His paper was entitled "Dragging Audiences from Television into Electoral Politics: The Cases of Italy and the USA."

[AUP - Posted 12 Sep 2008]

 
 

Yudhishthir Raj Isar was honored to be a Plenary Keynote Speaker on July 24, at the annual World Congress of the International Association for Media and Communications Research (IAMCR), devoted to the theme ‘Media and Global Divides’ and held at Stockholm University.  Earlier, he spoke on the topic ‘Public Culture:  The Local Challenge’ at a seminar on ‘Appropriation of Cultural Objects’ organized for city cultural officials and professionals on June 2-3 in Oporto, Portugal by the Fundaçao de Serralves. On June 28, he was a speaker in the closing Round Table of a conference entitled ‘Culture of Reconstruction:  Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Aftermath of Crisis’ organized at Cambridge University under the auspices of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).  Finally, the 2008 volume entitled The Cultural Economy of ‘The Cultures and Globalization Series’ of publications of which he is co-editor, will be published this month by SAGE Publications, London.

[AUP - Posted 12 Sep 2008]

 
 
 
 

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