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Re: Madras University Journalism Department

Can you provide me the syllabus for Masters in Journalism - MJ Online Media Program offered by the Department of Journalism and Communication University of Madras?
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Re: Madras University Journalism Department

The syllabus for Masters in Journalism - MJ Online Media Program offered by the Department of Journalism and Communication University of Madras is as follows:

CIS C001 History of Communication

Unit I

The origins of writing – nature and characteristics of scripts in ancient civilisations
(Hieroglyphic, Indus script, Chinese/Japanese Kanji, Brahmi, Tamil Brahmi and Vattelzhuthu),
language, literature, communication and globalisation in the ancient worlds, modes of communication during Sangam age.


Unit II
The nature and characteristics of ancient and medieval media of communication (clay tablets, pottery, papyrus, rock cut structures, granite stones, silk scrolls, palm manuscripts, drums, puppetry, koothu, magic lanterns, wooden blocks etc.,), performing arts and traditional media in India, performing arts and communication during Sangam period.


Unit III
The origins of printing technology in China, Korea and Western Europe, Different waves of print culture in ancient and medieval Asia, the characteristics of print based knowledge revolution, the historical contests between between orality and literacy, colonialism and communication during 16-20th centuries in India, the emergence of print culture in south India.


Unit IV
The early newspapers, the implications of Industrial revolution on early waves of journalism, arrival of mass circulated newspapers, penny press, the birth of photography, phonogram, wireless telephony/radio, films and television, the birth of journalism in India.


Unit V
20th century as the fulcrum of modern mass media technologies, the impact of II World War on the growth of mass media technologies, the implications of Cold War on the development of Internet and Computer mediated communication, globalisation and new media, the impact of Emergency on the development of Indian media during 1980s-2000.


References:
1.Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities,Verso,1991.
2.Baines, John, Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt, Oxford University Press,2009.
3.Baskaran, Theodore, S. Message Bearers: Nationalist Politics and Entertainment Media in South India 1980-1945, Cre-A,1981.
4.Blackburn,Stuart, Print, Folklore and Colonialism in South India, Orient Blackswan, 2006.
5.Conboy, Martin, Journalism: A Critical History, Sage,2004.
6.Innis, Harold, Empire and Communications, The General Pub.Co,1986.
7.Innis, Harold, Bias of Communication, University of Toronto Press,2008.
8.Kleeman, Terry and Barrett, Tracy, The Ancient Chinese World, Oxford University Press, 2005.
9.Krishnamurthy, Nadig, Indian Journalism, University of Mysore, 1966.
10.Mark Kenoyer, Jonathan and Heuston, Kimberley, The Ancient South Asian World, Oxford
University Press, 2005
11.McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, MIT Press,1994.
12.McLuhan, Marshall, Gutenberg's Galaxy, University of Toronto Press,2011.
13.Ramanujan A.K and Shulman, David. Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil, Columbia University Press,2001.
14.Ong,Walter, Orality and Literacy, Routledge,2002.
15.Sadasivan, D, Public Opinion in Madras Presidency 1858-1909, University of Madras, 1974.
16.Venkatachalapathy, A.R, The Province of the Book: Scholars, Scribes, and Scribblers in
Colonial Tamil Nadu, Permanent Black, 2011.

Syllabus Masters in Journalism University of Madras




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