REQUIRED TEXT

Severin, Werner J., and Tankard, James W. (2001). Communication Theories: Origins, Methods, and Uses in the Mass Media, 5th ed. New York: Addison Wesley Longman.

SUPPLEMENTARY SELECTIONS

Eickelman, Dale F., and Anderson, Jon W., Eds. (2003). New Media in the Muslim World, 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

McQuail, Denis (2000). McQuail's Mass Communication Theory, 4th ed. London: Sage.

There are, in addition, the following required readings:

Armfield, G. G., and Holbert, R. L. (2003). The relationship between religiosity and Internet use. Journal of Media and Religion, 2(3), 129-144.

Hall, Stuart (1980). Encoding/decoding. In Durham, Meenakshi Gigi, and Kellner, Douglas M., Eds., Media and Cultural Studies: KeyWorks (pp. 166-176), 2001.

McLuhan, Marshall (1964). The medium is the message. In Durham, Meenakshi Gigi, and Kellner, Douglas M., Eds., Media and Cultural Studies: KeyWorks (pp. 129-138), 2001.

el-Nawawy, Mohammed, and Iskandar, Adel (2003). "Al Jazeera and the West: The love-hate relationship." In M. el-Nawawy and A. Iskandar, Eds., Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network That Is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism, pp. 175-196.

Shafer, Richard (1998). Comparing development journalism and public journalism as interventionist press models. Asian Journal of Communication, 8(1), 31-52.

Wang Lay Kim (2001). Media and democracy in Malaysia. Javnost/The Public, 8(2), 67-88.

Wong, Kokkeong (2004). Asian-based development journalism and political elections: Press coverage of the 1999 general elections in Malaysia. Gazette: The International Journal for Communications Studies, 66(1), 25-40.