Contemporary World

• Role of Globalization

  • Globalization entails the spread of cultures
• Role of Globalization

  • Globalization involves the spread of ideas
• True - Today, TV programs, social media, books, etc. have made easier for advocates to reach larger audience
• Globalization - relies on media as its main conduit for the spread of Global culture and ideas
• Jack Lule - " a means of conveying something such as a channel of communication"
• Media - refers to the technologies of mass communication (Commentators)
• Marshall McLuhan - "the medium is the message"
• "The medium is the message"

  • An attempt to draw attention to how media, as a form of technology, reshape societies
• Media effects

  1. Positive - expand the reach of communication
  2. Negative - amputate and limit the human senses
• Print Media - books magazines and newspaper

  Broadcast Media - Radio film and television

  Digital Media - Internet and mobile mass communication
• Global Village - the perception of the world would be the same
• Global Media has a tendency to homogenize culture
• Media Globalization coupled with American Hegemony would create a form of Cultural Imperialism
• Herbert Schiller 1976 - not only was the world being Americanized, the process also led to the spread of American values
• John Tomlinson - cultural globalization is a cover for western cultural imperialism
• Cultural Imperialism - Process by which one country dominates other countries' media consumption and consequently dominates their values and ideologies
• A political-economy argues that the homogenization of culture and communication leads to shared values and ideologies
• As with all nee media, social media have both beneficial and negative effects. These form of communication have democratized access
• The dark side of social media shows that even a seemingly open and democratic media may be co opted towards undemocratic means
• Global Online Propaganda will be the biggest threat to face the globalization of media deepens
• As consumers of media, users must:

  • remain vigilant
  • learn how to distinguish fact from falsehood
• In media studies, text simply refers to the content of the medium
• Religion - Worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially God or gods
• Fact - Religion has the most difficult relationship with globalism
• Religion - more concerned with the sacred

  Globalism - places value on material wealth
• Religion plays an important role in the rampage of globalism
• Peter Burger - far from being secularized, the contemporary world is furiously religious
• Old world Religion - Christianity and Islam
• The basic tenets of Globalization stand against religious parochialism
• Religion become the foundation of modern republics
• Regionalization - a spontaneous, bottom up process
• Regionalism - political will to create a formal arrangements among states
• Globalism affects economic and political processes as the global level
• Region - an area that has a common features. Natural or Artificial. The basic units of Geography
• Dawback of regionalism - possibility of each individual to lose their respective independence or identity
• Region - amalgamation of two regions or combination if more than two regions. Group of countries located in the same geographical area
• Regionalization - regional concentration of economic flows
• Why do countries form regional organization? Way of coping challenges of Globalization
• NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries