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ICOM100 ESSAY QUESTIONS 2013

• Make sure to go beyond the reader in looking for material.
• Keep your essays focused. Make sure you have a clear argument (ONE key point) that is stated in the first paragraph and reinforced throughout your essay, backed up by evidence from the media or other sources and academic research. Your key argument should be succinctly summarised at the end as well.
• Make sure each paragraph contains one key point, which connects to your key idea and helps build up your argument. Each point should be sufficiently explained and backed up by evidence (from readings, the media etc.). Each paragraph should logically follow on from the previous one.
• Don’t forget to include in-text references (Harvard style) and attach a list of references in the correct format at the end. You only need to list the sources you actually refer to in your text (i.e. ideas that you quote or paraphrase). Use the referencing guide on iLearn.
• If you would like to work on a related topic but take a different perspective, talk to your tutor or the course coordinator.

Choose ONE of the below essay questions and write an essay of between 1500 and 2000 words.

Question 1:

Analyse the extent to which non-Western television news organisations (e.g. Al Jazeera, CCTV, NHK) are shifting global media influence away from Western media organizations like CNN and the BBC.

To answer this question, find out how these channels appeal to an international audience. Consider the notion of contra flows and/or hegemony in your response. You may want to build a case study around one major television company that is attempting to gain influence regionally or internationally to illustrate your key argument. Focus on examples of specific stories and styles of reporting used to attract international audiences. You can draw on online TV clips or YouTube clips of relevant TV programs.

Question 2: 

Analyse and assess the effects new technologies like online social media have on international communication or international negotiation in business.

Approach this question by outlining the advantages and disadvantages these new technologies had and have for international communication compared to previous technologies. Do these new technologies help to support or hinder the development of a national or international ‘public sphere’? It may be helpful to focus your essay around one international political, government or not-for-profit campaign, which has made significant use of computer mediated communication (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Weibo, instant messenger, online gaming). You could choose a national or international campaign that is connected to a significant global issue (e.g. the environment, human rights, health, indigenous issues etc.), or how a specific companies practices or negotiations have changed or been influenced by social media.

Question 3:

Critically analyse the relationship between non-verbal communication and cultural spaces.

Approaching this question, you need to understand concepts of non-verbal communication, cultural identity, cultural spaces and postmodern cultural spaces that are interpreted in the reading. To answer this question, you may choose two or more cultural spaces that you are interested in, and focus on one aspect of nonverbal communication (e.g. gestures, body posture, touch, space and eye contact etc.), then look at whether the nonverbal behaviour pattern is culturally appropriate in these different cultural spaces, and how the changing cultural spaces construct new meanings of non-verbal behaviours. For instance, studies have shown that the gestures of Sicilian and Lithuanian Jewish immigrants in New York City are distinct from traditional Jewish gestures, which disappeared as people were more assimilated into the larger American culture.

Question 4:

Critically analyse the media power in international relations.

This question is asking you to understand the role of media in influencing international public opinion, and creating a favourable opinion environment for a nation- state’s foreign policy. To answer this question, you may focus on a current international affair (e.g. Ukraine Crisis, Malaysian airline wreckage) and select one or two nation states, to examine how the nation state(s) influence the global public opinion through media to support their foreign policy. Theories such as media power, public opinion, public sphere, and public diplomacy may help you answer the question.

Critical essay

Order Description
“The key benefit of Mergers and Acquisitions, over Strategic Alliances, is that they lead to the development of and access to new knowledge, particularly as this external development activity is fundamental in an organisation’s strategic development of knowledge.”

Critically evaluate this statement, using academic literature and current business examples.
Guidance

Introduction for Both Essays:

Include relevant definitions (but not too many, try not to use too many quotes in your essays. They are good for definitions, but you need to re-write information completely in your own words for the rest of your work)

Set the scene – Tell me what you are going to say. What is this essay about? How will the statement or questions be addressed? (First this essay will look at… Next there will be an evaluation of… etc.)

Main Body of Essay – Alliances, Mergers, Acquisitions and Knowledge:

“(Part 1) The key benefit of Mergers and Acquisitions, over Strategic Alliances, is that they lead to the development of and access to new knowledge, (Part 2) particularly as this external development activity is fundamental in an organisation’s strategic development of knowledge.”
Critically evaluate this statement, using academic literature and current business examples.

PART 1:
• Are mergers and acquisitions better than strategic alliances at developing or accessing new knowledge?
• Or are they equally good at accessing and developing new knowledge?
• What are some of the problems related to knowledge access for alliances, mergers and acquisitions?
• Provide some further comparison of mergers, acquisitions and alliances, are they only about accessing knowledge?
• Don’t forget to use current business examples to support the points that you make in your critical analysis throughout.

PART 2:
• Are alliances, mergers and acquisitions the only ways in which you can create, develop and access new knowledge?
• What are the other ways organisations can do this? What about Knowledge Environments?
• Again, could link to some of the problems of knowledge sharing and creation faced by organisations previously mentioned. Are the problems the same with internal development of knowledge as well as external?
• How does governance link into this? How does good governance help both the sharing of knowledge and success of alliances, mergers and acquisitions?
• Again, don’t forget the current business examples throughout.
Conclusions

• Provide a summary of the main points of the critique in the main body of the essay.
• Tell me what you have said
• Do not include any new material in the conclusion, other than whether the evidence presented in the main body of the essay supports or opposes the question or statement you are answering.
• Make sure you link the conclusions to the statement or question.

General Points:

• Do not write in the first person (I or we)
• Do not overuse quotes – rewrite in your own words (a couple of quotes for key definitions are fine)
• No headings, diagrams or tables required
• No subheadings required
• No contents page required
• Use journals that I will upload
• Use current examples 2014 – Now
• Do not use general website reference to support your critique
• Academic Journal Articles and CREDIBLE Industry Reports should be the main focus of the reading for this essay.
• MAKE SURE YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION OR RELATE THE ESSAY TO THE STATEMENT CHOSEN. This is not an opportunity to tell everything you know about a subject, without relating it to the question.
• Harvard Referencing is to be used throughout

Order Description
“The key benefit of Mergers and Acquisitions, over Strategic Alliances, is that they lead to the development of and access to new knowledge, particularly as this external development activity is fundamental in an organisation’s strategic development of knowledge.”

Critically evaluate this statement, using academic literature and current business examples.
Guidance

Introduction for Both Essays:

Include relevant definitions (but not too many, try not to use too many quotes in your essays. They are good for definitions, but you need to re-write information completely in your own words for the rest of your work)

Set the scene – Tell me what you are going to say. What is this essay about? How will the statement or questions be addressed? (First this essay will look at… Next there will be an evaluation of… etc.)

Main Body of Essay – Alliances, Mergers, Acquisitions and Knowledge:

“(Part 1) The key benefit of Mergers and Acquisitions, over Strategic Alliances, is that they lead to the development of and access to new knowledge, (Part 2) particularly as this external development activity is fundamental in an organisation’s strategic development of knowledge.”
Critically evaluate this statement, using academic literature and current business examples.

PART 1:
• Are mergers and acquisitions better than strategic alliances at developing or accessing new knowledge?
• Or are they equally good at accessing and developing new knowledge?
• What are some of the problems related to knowledge access for alliances, mergers and acquisitions?
• Provide some further comparison of mergers, acquisitions and alliances, are they only about accessing knowledge?
• Don’t forget to use current business examples to support the points that you make in your critical analysis throughout.

PART 2:
• Are alliances, mergers and acquisitions the only ways in which you can create, develop and access new knowledge?
• What are the other ways organisations can do this? What about Knowledge Environments?
• Again, could link to some of the problems of knowledge sharing and creation faced by organisations previously mentioned. Are the problems the same with internal development of knowledge as well as external?
• How does governance link into this? How does good governance help both the sharing of knowledge and success of alliances, mergers and acquisitions?
• Again, don’t forget the current business examples throughout.
Conclusions

• Provide a summary of the main points of the critique in the main body of the essay.
• Tell me what you have said
• Do not include any new material in the conclusion, other than whether the evidence presented in the main body of the essay supports or opposes the question or statement you are answering.
• Make sure you link the conclusions to the statement or question.

General Points:

• Do not write in the first person (I or we)
• Do not overuse quotes – rewrite in your own words (a couple of quotes for key definitions are fine)
• No headings, diagrams or tables required
• No subheadings required
• No contents page required
• Use journals that I will upload
• Use current examples 2014 – Now
• Do not use general website reference to support your critique
• Academic Journal Articles and CREDIBLE Industry Reports should be the main focus of the reading for this essay.
• MAKE SURE YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION OR RELATE THE ESSAY TO THE STATEMENT CHOSEN. This is not an opportunity to tell everything you know about a subject, without relating it to the question.
• Harvard Referencing is to be used throughout

Critical essay

Order Description
“The key benefit of Mergers and Acquisitions, over Strategic Alliances, is that they lead to the development of and access to new knowledge, particularly as this external development activity is fundamental in an organisation’s strategic development of knowledge.”

Critically evaluate this statement, using academic literature and current business examples.
Guidance

Introduction for Both Essays:

Include relevant definitions (but not too many, try not to use too many quotes in your essays. They are good for definitions, but you need to re-write information completely in your own words for the rest of your work)

Set the scene – Tell me what you are going to say. What is this essay about? How will the statement or questions be addressed? (First this essay will look at… Next there will be an evaluation of… etc.)

Main Body of Essay – Alliances, Mergers, Acquisitions and Knowledge:

“(Part 1) The key benefit of Mergers and Acquisitions, over Strategic Alliances, is that they lead to the development of and access to new knowledge, (Part 2) particularly as this external development activity is fundamental in an organisation’s strategic development of knowledge.”
Critically evaluate this statement, using academic literature and current business examples.

PART 1:
• Are mergers and acquisitions better than strategic alliances at developing or accessing new knowledge?
• Or are they equally good at accessing and developing new knowledge?
• What are some of the problems related to knowledge access for alliances, mergers and acquisitions?
• Provide some further comparison of mergers, acquisitions and alliances, are they only about accessing knowledge?
• Don’t forget to use current business examples to support the points that you make in your critical analysis throughout.

PART 2:
• Are alliances, mergers and acquisitions the only ways in which you can create, develop and access new knowledge?
• What are the other ways organisations can do this? What about Knowledge Environments?
• Again, could link to some of the problems of knowledge sharing and creation faced by organisations previously mentioned. Are the problems the same with internal development of knowledge as well as external?
• How does governance link into this? How does good governance help both the sharing of knowledge and success of alliances, mergers and acquisitions?
• Again, don’t forget the current business examples throughout.
Conclusions

• Provide a summary of the main points of the critique in the main body of the essay.
• Tell me what you have said
• Do not include any new material in the conclusion, other than whether the evidence presented in the main body of the essay supports or opposes the question or statement you are answering.
• Make sure you link the conclusions to the statement or question.

General Points:

• Do not write in the first person (I or we)
• Do not overuse quotes – rewrite in your own words (a couple of quotes for key definitions are fine)
• No headings, diagrams or tables required
• No subheadings required
• No contents page required
• Use journals that I will upload
• Use current examples 2014 – Now
• Do not use general website reference to support your critique
• Academic Journal Articles and CREDIBLE Industry Reports should be the main focus of the reading for this essay.
• MAKE SURE YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION OR RELATE THE ESSAY TO THE STATEMENT CHOSEN. This is not an opportunity to tell everything you know about a subject, without relating it to the question.
• Harvard Referencing is to be used throughout

Order Description
“The key benefit of Mergers and Acquisitions, over Strategic Alliances, is that they lead to the development of and access to new knowledge, particularly as this external development activity is fundamental in an organisation’s strategic development of knowledge.”

Critically evaluate this statement, using academic literature and current business examples.
Guidance

Introduction for Both Essays:

Include relevant definitions (but not too many, try not to use too many quotes in your essays. They are good for definitions, but you need to re-write information completely in your own words for the rest of your work)

Set the scene – Tell me what you are going to say. What is this essay about? How will the statement or questions be addressed? (First this essay will look at… Next there will be an evaluation of… etc.)

Main Body of Essay – Alliances, Mergers, Acquisitions and Knowledge:

“(Part 1) The key benefit of Mergers and Acquisitions, over Strategic Alliances, is that they lead to the development of and access to new knowledge, (Part 2) particularly as this external development activity is fundamental in an organisation’s strategic development of knowledge.”
Critically evaluate this statement, using academic literature and current business examples.

PART 1:
• Are mergers and acquisitions better than strategic alliances at developing or accessing new knowledge?
• Or are they equally good at accessing and developing new knowledge?
• What are some of the problems related to knowledge access for alliances, mergers and acquisitions?
• Provide some further comparison of mergers, acquisitions and alliances, are they only about accessing knowledge?
• Don’t forget to use current business examples to support the points that you make in your critical analysis throughout.

PART 2:
• Are alliances, mergers and acquisitions the only ways in which you can create, develop and access new knowledge?
• What are the other ways organisations can do this? What about Knowledge Environments?
• Again, could link to some of the problems of knowledge sharing and creation faced by organisations previously mentioned. Are the problems the same with internal development of knowledge as well as external?
• How does governance link into this? How does good governance help both the sharing of knowledge and success of alliances, mergers and acquisitions?
• Again, don’t forget the current business examples throughout.
Conclusions

• Provide a summary of the main points of the critique in the main body of the essay.
• Tell me what you have said
• Do not include any new material in the conclusion, other than whether the evidence presented in the main body of the essay supports or opposes the question or statement you are answering.
• Make sure you link the conclusions to the statement or question.

General Points:

• Do not write in the first person (I or we)
• Do not overuse quotes – rewrite in your own words (a couple of quotes for key definitions are fine)
• No headings, diagrams or tables required
• No subheadings required
• No contents page required
• Use journals that I will upload
• Use current examples 2014 – Now
• Do not use general website reference to support your critique
• Academic Journal Articles and CREDIBLE Industry Reports should be the main focus of the reading for this essay.
• MAKE SURE YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION OR RELATE THE ESSAY TO THE STATEMENT CHOSEN. This is not an opportunity to tell everything you know about a subject, without relating it to the question.
• Harvard Referencing is to be used throughout