Global Communication and Media Policy

One of these days most trendy and important factors that have been involved in the globalization of media is the influence of the Western world over developing countries'. Indeed, the influence of the dominant countries has played a major role in shaping the structure of the flow of news circulating in different media and also created new shapes of media content due to the mix of different cultures and backgrounds.   First, we have to mention that the medium that has played a major role in the rapid production and the mixture of cultures in the world of media is television. Indeed, as the television got rid of many restrictions (political and socio-cultural), people have started shaping a new identity through the content shown on their screen. The very numerous programs and choice of channel options provided are the main elements that encourage people (in the developing countries) to be aware of what’s happening (on the national and the international level as well) hence, it...

Throughout this chapter entitled Global Media Bazaar- The Global & Local Media Cultures , Thussu discusses the idea of the control of some countries (mostly Western) over other countries (mostly Eastern) concerning media industry on numerous levels and through different ways. First, we have to know that the control does not only concern a specific area. In fact, this monopoly is polyvalent and aims to influence different fields such as the entertainment which includes TV shows, films and other content meant to provide the society with enjoyment. Adding to that, the control also tackles informational media content such as the news. Since there are numerous foreign news agencies that are adapted to different cultures from the countries they target, the news are highly influenced by a minority and not too many decide what to include in the content hence, a very narrow perspective on the global news and the minds are implicitly shaped and guided to the same direction. Moreover, the...

Since my paper is about Djerba in Tunisia and the differences between the Muslim cultural traditions and the Jewish ones, I've collected (so far) these five books in order to start drafting for a former outline to base my ideas and axes on. Here are the books I've chosen this morning: 1. Tunisia, the rough guide 2. A history of Modern Tunisia - Kennith J. Perkins 3. Jews & Judaism in African History - Richard Hull 4. Religion or Ethnicity Jewish identities in Evolution - Zvi Gitelman 5. The Tunisia of Ahmad Bey - L.Carl Brown (The brown book on the picture) I'm willing to do a deeper research in the database of the library so I can find more papers and e-sources in order to have a stronger research process and a more academic lead one. More detailed and properly cited sources will be provided in the coming days ...

On Wednesday 4 th of October 2017 , our International Communication professor Mrs.Afifa El Bayed has asked us to attend a workshop session in order to teach the lesson differently that day. At the beginning of the workshop, there was a Moroccan journalist named Driss Ksiskes  who welcomed us by introducing himself and the activity we’ll be doing for the next hour and half. The workshop has started with an activity based on a very specific and challenging way of communication. There were two exercises: The first one was mainly about communicating in few words with meaningful thoughts and some gestures associated with the script. The reactions were supposed to be based on four values which are: “Desire, Emotion, Reason and Memory” as Mr.Ksikes has explained. My teammate was a friend of mine called Aymane Sahli. At the beginning, we didn’t understand the exercise but then, the guest speaker re-explained with more simple words. Personally, I was inspired by the professor when ...