Becoming Global Citizens: A Handbook for International Media and Communication
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 260
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Becoming Global Citizens: A Handbook for International Media and Communications is a turn-key customizable online course package that introduces students to the global media environment and provides them with opportunities for expanding their own views and perspectives on the world and their role in it. The course package assists students in becoming more informed, highly engaged global citizens – members of the “global village”.
Students using Becoming Global Citizens will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of historical trends and foundations for mass communication and the world.
- Compare and critique current theories, paradigms and social movements in world communication.
- Develop intercultural communication competencies to include awareness, effectiveness and mindfulness.
- Display knowledge of the relationship between news media, music and film, communication technologies and trends (digital, AI, etc.), and international communication.
- Evaluate and apply communication techniques from a variety of global perspectives.
- Identify areas of future research/application of new communication paradigms, technologies, and platforms in the global marketplace.
- Transfer knowledge gained to the professional communication arena in individual areas of study and/or interest.
- Identify areas of bias, discrimination and inequality in global media as points for improvement.
- Develop your own hypotheses about the future of global communication systems.
- Become more culturally and internationally minded concerning the mass media.
Becoming Global Citizens: A Handbook for International Media and Communications fuses readings, brief lecture videos with embedded discussion questions, short answer questions, quizzes, and interactive media. Additional resources and readings are also linked throughout the materials providing students an opportunity to learn beyond the bounds of course requirements. Let’s begin our exploration of global communication!
Module 1: World Communication in Context
Module 2: Infrastructure, Governance, and the Challenges of Global Media
Module 3: Culture and International Communication
Module 4: Global Media Giants
Module 5: Global Media Systems and Sociocultural Issues
Module 6: Global News and Media Effects
Module 7: Communication in the Global Village: Traditional Media
Module 8: Digital Media in the Global Village
Module 9: The Global Media Professionals
Module 10: Development Communication and a Developing World
Module 11: Latin America and Non-MENA Africa
Module 12: European Media
Module 13: The Middle East and Northern Africa Region
Module 14: Asia Pacific Media
Module 15: Key Takeaways for Global Media Practitioners
Jennifer Braddock has been teaching at institutions from Florida to California since 2010 with experience in undergraduate and graduate coursework related to mass communication, intercultural/international media, research, theory, and a variety of human communication classes. In her professional pursuits, Dr. Braddock has also led corporate learning and product teams in the U.S. and Colombia. Finally, she accepted a 3-year appointment from the U.S. Department of State to serve as a Fulbright Specialist, lending her expertise to special projects in Latin America related to the internationalization of higher education through the year 2026.
Topics related to health communication, intercultural communication, and digital communication top the list of Dr. Braddock’s research interests. She and her colleagues have presented their research at conferences from Auckland to Paris and many cities in between, resulting in more than twenty journal article and book chapter publications. Dr. Braddock recently published the second edition of her web-based textbook entitled, Becoming global citizens: A handbook for international media and communications.
Dr. Braddock is dedicated to giving back through volunteerism and has taught ESL classes, coached boys’ and girls’ basketball teams, led writing workshops for military members, served as a Coast Guard Ombudsman, and taught art classes at a local elementary school.