= = = = = = 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 <mailto:air-l%40aoir.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 =02*=C6=F7x%@=A8@Z*=08m=D1=C8 =1A*=0F j)fj=7F b?j*