MECO3605 Issues in Global and Digital Media: reading and lecture notes + key definitions

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These notes comprehensively cover content from all 13 lectures and most readings. It is essential that you understand key readings in this unit. The key definitions and examples I have included are also incredibly useful. Topics and readings cover: - Introduction - Global clouds, dark clouds: Cloud computing and the globalisation of informational capitalism (+ readings) - From computational intelligence to black boxes: what’s the future of global information? (+ readings) - State and corporate mass surveillance in a globalised world (+ readings) - Media reforms movements after globalisation - Public service media: a quest for survival in the new networked ecosystem - Global advocate, national enemy: Wikileaks and its media impact (+ readings) - The politics of openness and transparency in global settings: challenges of the digital era (+ readings) - The new machine age revolution (+ readings) - Digital labour and its discontents (+ readings) - Capitalism, climate crisis and the new global digital ecosystems (+ readings) - Global Environmental justice in a digital world (+ readings)