Global Media 0 Globalization of Religion

Guessing
game!
Fax machine
Newspaper
Magazine
Modem
Telephone
Television
Radio
GLOBALIZATION OF
GLOBAL MEDIA
CULTURES
RELIGION
MEDIA & FORMS OF
CULTURE GLOBAL
INTEGRATION
MEDIA AND ITS
FUNCTIONS
GLOBALIZATION
OF RELIGION
GLOBAL MEDIA CULTURES
 MEDIA
Refers to the communication channels through which we disseminate
news, music, movies, education, promotional messages, and other
data.
 CULTURE
Can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs, and
institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to
generation.
GLOBAL MEDIA
CULTURES
 Globalization entails the spread of

various cultures.
 Globalization also spreads ideas.
 Globalization relies on media as its
main conduit for the spread of
global culture and ideas.
MEDIA AND ITS FUNCTIONS
Lule describes media as

“a means of conveying
Print media What media do and how
something, such as
Broadcast media they affect societies?
channel of
Digital media
communication”.
Marshall McLuhan
 “the medium is the message”

 Television is not a simple bearer of messages;
it also shapes the social behavior of users and
reorient family behavior.
 Smartphone allows users to keep in touch
instantly with multiple people at the same
time.
Marshall McLuhan
 McLuhan added that different media

simultaneously extend and amputate human
senses. New media may expand the reach of
communication, but they also dull the user’s
communicative capacities.
The media have a very important impact on
cultural globalization in two mutually
interdependent ways.
 1. the media provide an extensive transnational transmission of cultural products and
 2. it contributes to forming communicative networks and social structures.
 Global media cultures create a continuous cultural exchange, in which crucial aspects
such as identity, nationality, religion, behavioral norms, and way of life are continuously
questioned and challenged.
 Global media promotes the restructuring of cultural and social
communities.
 Global media supports the creation of new communities.
 The common point of departure is the assumption that a series of
international media constitutes a global cultural supply in itself and
serves as an independent agency for cultural and social
globalization, in which cultural communities are continuously
restructured and redefined.
3 factors that have affected the process of
economic globalization
1. Improvements in transportation and technology have reduced the cost of transporting

goods, services, and factors of production and communicating economically useful
knowledge of technology.
2. Tastes of individuals and societies have generally favored taking advantage of the
opportunities provided by declining costs of transportation and communication through
increasing economic integration.
3. The character of pace of economic integration have been significantly influenced by
public policies, although it is not always in the direction of increasing economic
integration.
GLOBALIZATION OF RELIGION
 Religion has the most difficult relationship with

globalism.
 Religious people are less concerned with wealth

and all that comes along with it.
 Globalist are less worried about whether they will
end up in heaven or hell.
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP OF
RELIGION TO GLOBALIZATION?
1 2
There is the way in which globalization At the same time, there is how religion In both views, the relationship between
flattens out cultural differences, erodes serves as the source of globalization’s religion and globalization is antagonistic
and local customs and beliefs, and greatest resistance and as a haven for – one of struggle and conflict.
spreads of secular, capitalist way of life those standing in opposition to its
that us at odds with religions of all sorts. ubiquitous yet often subtle power.
Largest Religions
When did globalization started to influence
religion?
 Evolving trades led to the colonization of Asia, Africa, and Central and South America.
Religion became an integral part of colonization and later on globalization.
IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION
 Flattens cultural differences

 Erodes local customs and beliefs
 Spreads secular, capitalist way of life
What is Religion Nowadays?
 It’s no longer a set of beliefs that people arrive at reflection.

 It’s a symbolic system that carries our identity and marks out social/ethical and other
boundaries.
 It marks crucial moments in the life cycle with rituals.
 It provides powerful mechanisms for psychological and social tension.
Role of Religion in promoting peace
 The moral principles and values contained in the teaching of great religious teachers are
essential factors for the reduction of and ultimate eradication of greed, hatred, and
delusion – which form the root cause of various conflicts and wars
 The preamble to UNESCO’s constitution says “ Since wars begin in the minds of men, it
is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
 The world cannot have peace until nations and people begin to reduce selfish desires for
more and material possessions, give up their racial arrogance, eliminate – their madness
for worldly power.
Religion not only inspires and
guides people but also
provides them with the
necessary tools to reduce
greed with the practice of
charity; overcome hate and
aversion with loving–
kindness; and remove
ignorance with the
development of wisdom and
insight to understand the true
and “see things as they are”.
Differences in religious
beliefs and practices should
not hinder the progress of
various religionists working
for a common cause, for
world peace.
Thank you for listening!
FLORENCE DE LEON

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Guessing

 Globalization entails the spread of

Lule describes media as

 “the medium is the message”

 McLuhan added that different media

1. Improvements in transportation and technology have reduced the cost of transporting

 Religion has the most difficult relationship with

 Religious people are less concerned with wealth

 Flattens cultural differences

 It’s no longer a set of beliefs that people arrive at reflection.

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