Annotated Bibliography - Culture And Communication (A Good Example Too)

This is an annotated bibliography for a communications course at UQ. Four texts, two books, two journal articles- all 100 words and relating to different aspects of culture and communication. I got a 7 (out of 7), so it might be a good example of how to do one well. Aim is to be concise and clear.

Grixti, Joe. "Symbiotic transformations: youth, global media and indigenous culture in

Malta." Media, Culture & Society 28 (2006): 105-122.

Joe Grixti's article springs from his recent research on Maltese and Malta-residing young adults. Through interview-based focus groups he aims to gauge the impact global media and communications have on individual cultural identities. Grixti's argues that global media and communications have not replaced individual national identities as much as it has reinvented it through an ongoing process of Ð''hybridisation' (114). Unlike Hofstede's argument below, who views culture as fixed and more resistant to change, Grixti assumes the nature of culture as fluid and changeable. Although this article had a firm foundation of evidence from Malta, Grixti would require further international studies to solidify his argument.

[Culture + Media] 105 words

Hofstede, Geert and Gert Jan Hofstede. Cultures and organizations: software of the

Mind "Introduction: Rules of the Social Game" New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

Geert and Gert Jan Hofstede's first chapter of their book Cultures and organizations introduces the argument that human nature is inherent, culture is learned, and personality is always a mixture of both. Culture is described as being a strong, permanent influence on one's identity that is both hard to shift and will survive through its own generation-to-generation reproduction. This chapter is a useful and appropriate introduction, being broad and yet concise and offering clear insight especially into the nature of multiculturalism. Fred Jandt in the article below agrees with Hofstede in that culture is learned, and goes further to suggest its strong link with communication.

[Culture + Multiculturalism] 105 words

Jandt, Fred E. An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global

Community "Defining Communication as an Element of Culture" Sage Publications: California, 2007.

Fred Jandt argues that communication and culture are entirely inseparable and distinguishes the function of communication as being dramatically culturally-specific. As an