Media and Globalization

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Media and Globalization

Media
• According to Jack Lule, it is a means of
conveying something such as channel of
communication.
• Global media had a tendency to homogenize
culture.
3 Types of Media
1.Print Media
2.Broadcast Media
3.Digital Media
4.Internet Media
• According to Media Theorist Marshall McLuhan, television is
not a simple bearer of messages, it also shapes the social
behavior of users and reorient family behavior.
• Different media simultaneously extend and amputate human
senses.
• When global media spread, people from all over the world will
begin to watch, listen and read the same things.
• Media globalization coupled with American leadership would
create a form of cultural imperialism.
• Cultural imperialism are not just made by producers, they are
also consumed by audiences.
• Cultural imperialism thesis has been belied by the renewed
strength of regional trends in the globalization process.
• For media, globalization is a unidirectional process of foreign
cultures overwhelming local ones.
• Globalization in media leaves room for dynamism and cultural
change.
• The internet and social media are proving that the globalization
of culture and ideas can move in different directions.
• Social media have both good and bad effects.
• Splinternet and cyberbalkanization.
• Trolls
• The dark side of social media shows that even a seemingly open and
democratic media may be co-opted towards undemocratic means.
• Users must remain vigilant and learn the use of global media
landscape.
• Social media will splinter cultures and ideas into bubbles of people
who do not interact.
• Societies can never be completely prepared for rapid changes in the
system of communication.
• Instead of fearing these changes or entering a state of moral panic,
everyone must collectively discover ways of dealing with them
responsibly and ethically.

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