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Nan Kim-Paik

Coordinator of Global Studies

Center for International Education

Garland Hall, Rm 110

UW-Milwaukee

P.O. Box 413

Milwaukee, WI 53201

Tel: (414) 229-2976

Fax: (414) 229-3626

My belated thanks to Bonnie Strong and Charles Ess for the very helpful responses and information regarding these programs!

Charles Ess--Thanks also the information about the catac 04 conference. Actually I had already seen the announcement for it on the list of upcoming conferences posted at Nordicom http://www.nordicom.gu.se/conferences/conferences.html ...But you may wish to update that listing and include a more descriptive blurb, as it referred only generally to the "conference theme."

Thanks again,

Nan

-----Original Message-----
From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of
Bonnie Strong air-l@aoir.org
Sent: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:20:15 -0500

Subject: Re: [Air-l] Query re. programs in Global Communication

I am a Master's student at Georgetown University in the Communication,
Culture, and Technology Graduate program.  My focus is intercultural /
international communication - specifically CMC.  More information on the
program (which I recommend highly) is found at http://cct.georgetown.edu

Bonnie Strong
Children's Digital Media Center
Georgetown University

-----Original Message-----
From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of
Charles Ess
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:21 AM
To: air-l@aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Query re. programs in Global Communication

Dear all:

You might look at the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication &
Culture, a
collaborative program run by York and Ryerson Universities in Canada:
<http://www.yorku.ca/comcult/>.  FWIW: one of the Danish students in a
course I taught at IT-University last fall on intercultural
communication
online had spent a delightful and productive year there.  It certainly
prepared her well to address the topics and issues of the course.

>From my perspective, of course, a curriculum on global communication
would
include attention to the complexities of cultural values and
communicative
preferences as these are first embedded in the design of CMC
technologies,
and then as these work to shape the diffusion of and responses to these
technologies in diverse cultures - i.e., the general focus of the
biennial
conferences on "Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication.
"
CATaC'04 (he said in a shameless bit of self-advertising) will take
place in
Karlstad, Sweden, this year, June 27-July 1 - please see
http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/index.html for conference
description,
etc.
In all seriousness, I would imagine that at least some of the
publications
to emerge from the CATaC series would be of interest.

G'luck - and please keep us posted!

cheers,
Charles Ess
Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies
Drury University
900 N. Benton Ave.
Springfield, MO  65802  USA
voice: 417-873-7230
fax: 417-873-7435
homepage: <www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html>

Co-chair, CATaC '04: <it.murdoch.edu.au/catac>

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Nan Kim-Paik" <nkim-paik@cie.uwm.edu>
To: <air-l@aoir.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 11:32 PM
Subject: [Air-l] Query re. programs in Global Communication


> Dear AoIR members
>
> I am facilitating the development of a new curriculum at the
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the area of global communication, and I would
greatly
appreciate your insights regarding trends in the field.
>
> I would be particularly interested in your thoughts on:
>
> --which programs (anywhere in the world) you think are particularly
vibrant and provide curricular leadership;
>
> --and what you think would be important to include in an undergraduate
curriculum in global communication, whether or not such courses are
currently included in program with which you are familiar.
>
> What we mean by "global communication" is still under negotiation, but
we
hope that the program will combine the study of communication,
information,
media and culture.
>
> Several people have already suggested that I look into the programs at
Goldsmiths and LSE, but if you have other leads, I would be most
grateful.
>
> Nan Kim-Paik
> Global Studies Coordinator
> Center for International Education
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> P.O. Box 413
> Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
> nkim-paik@cie.uwm.edu
> Tel: (414) 229-2976
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