Introduction
Journalism and Mass Communication 330 (JMC 330), International Mass Communication, is a course taught at Humboldt State University by instructor Jessie Misha Cretser-Hartenstein.
Appropedia Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to better understand the role that new media play in international mass communication and globalization from a grassroots level AND to employ your journalistic skills and adapt them to a global audience by publishing your own work on an international forum. The platform we will be using for this assignment is appropedia.org, a locally founded non-profit organization with global reach.
You will:
- Choose a topic that interests you from your assigned/chosen country. The topic must be original, as well as relevant and applicable to Appropedia’s mission. Your topic could be a specific project taking place in your country, a profile of a relevant organization that operates in your country, an overview of a city/region that excels in some area of sustainable development or green living, a profile of a city/region that has a specific issue relating to sustainability, etc. (see topics below for more information and examples)
- Research this topic and compose a 300-600 word wiki article
- Create a user profile and post your article to www.appropedia.org (see instructions below)
- Make your page appear palatable and appealing with proper headings, photos, layout, etc. Be sure to caption your images and only use those that you have permission to publish (see Help:Images for info on uploading images)
- Reference all sources properly with links (see Help:Footnotes for help on special wiki citation format)
Topics
Here are suggested topics with examples. Please pick just one topic.
- Sustainable organizations in chosen country
- AIDG - Guatemala and Haiti
- Village Earth - Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Bosnia, Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico, Columbia
- Demotech - Netherlands
- Raintree-Foundation - Thailand (should be longer)
- Sustainable projects in chosen country
- Greywater Ecuador La lagrima purificadora - Ecuador
- UABJO Demonstration Wetland Wastewater Treatment, Reclamation, and Outreach - Oaxaca, Mexico
- Daycare rainwater catchment system - Parras, Mexico (does not need to be as long or technical)
- Home biogas system (Philippine BioDigesters) - Philippines
- Sustainable government programs in chosen country
- Curitiba transportation - Brazil
- Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba - Cuba
- Kamikatsu Waste Management - Japan
Instructions
If you are a student in this course, please do the following to start your project:
- Create a User Account. Consider using a name that represents you in a professional manner.
- Create your userpage using these instructions JMC330 post userpage assignment
- After creating your userpage, type a unique name for your topic (see the examples above) into the search bar to the left
- Click go and then create this page
- Copy and paste the following into your new page
- At the very top of your page (including the curly brackets):
{{JMC330inprogress|May 15, 2011}} - At the very bottom of your page (including the brackets):
Category:JMC330 International Mass Communication and any other relevant categories, such as Category:Organizations
more information is available at Help:Contents
Pages in category "JMC330 International Mass Communication"
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- Band-e-Amir National Park
- Band-e-Amir National Park/bg
- Band-e-Amir National Park/fa
- Band-e-Amir National Park/ja
- Band-e-Amir National Park/pl
- Band-e-Amir National Park/tl
- Band-e-Amir National Park/tr
- Bangladesh Wind Power
- Bangladesh Wind Power/bn
- Bangladesh Wind Power/zh
- Barclays Cycle Hire
- Bike On New Zealand
- Bosco Verticale
- Botswana Orphan Project
- User:BrandonWidder
- Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST)
- Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST)/zh
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- Eco Cabs Ireland
- User:EGolan
- Ekoviikki Suburb - Transition Town
- Ekoviikki Suburb - Transition Town/he
- Ekoviikki Suburb - Transition Town/it
- Ekoviikki Suburb - Transition Town/ko
- Ekoviikki Suburb - Transition Town/ru
- Elephant Nature Park in Thailand
- User:EmanuelVainer
- User:Enr5
- User:Evan
- Exclusion zone
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- User:Ib231
- Iceland aluminum
- Iceland aluminum/et
- Iceland aluminum/ko
- User:Icelandinvestigator
- Idle No More
- Igherm restoration and library project
- Institute for Environment and Sustainability
- Institute for Environment and Sustainability/el
- User:Isabelle
- Italy's population sustanability
- Italy's population sustanability/it
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- Safe and Sustainable Transport Project
- Sahara Conservation Fund
- Sahara Conservation Fund/zh
- Sahara Forest Project (Jordan)
- Sahara Forest Project (Jordan)/ko
- User:Saltdawg
- User:Sam Machado
- User:Sandi Rae
- Sao Paulo Transit
- User:SavannaVandenHeuvel
- User:Scm96
- User:ScottieMeyers
- User:Shelbyameyers
- User:Simon Neate
- User:SinhaiD
- Skate to Great
- Solar Nova Scotia
- Solar power in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
- Solar power in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan/ko
- Solar power in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan/zh
- Stockholm Environmental Institute
- Sustainable Ireland: Cultivate
- Sustainable sheep farming in Argentina
- Sustainable sheep farming in Argentina/uk
- Sustainable sheep farming in Argentina/zh
- Sweden's waste-to-energy
- Sweden's waste-to-energy/zh
- Swinna Poreba Reservoir Project
- Syria's civil war and the environment
- Syrian Environment Association
- Syrian Environment Association/pt
Media in category "JMC330 International Mass Communication"
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