With an emphasis on British and European news and journalism, this course explores globalization
from a wide range of theoretical frameworks including political economy, cultural analysis, theories of
representation, and critical race and postcolonial studies. It considers how technologies, diasporic and
transnational communities, and international institutions impact global communications, and how these networks
and organizations are challenging, re-imagining and re-shaping social, cultural and geographic boundaries via
mediated discourse.