CMNS 348 Lecture 2: CMNS 348 Lecture : Week 2 & 3 notes
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Information technology imperative open up communications to people all around the world, allowing us to exchange information: ecological imperative whatever people does to their own ecology, it affects everyone on earth. Jihad has framed the nation into retreating the local identities: 6 domains to globalization, economy - economic globalisation can be defined as a process in which economic activity occurs progressively on an international level. Cnn, music (mtv), films (hollywood, bollywood, korean cinema, chinese films), disney (sony, fox, columbia) etc: technological icts are the main source of globalization which connects and interacts countries. Example telegraph, telephone, satellite, internet, facebook: global consumption global consumers feel the same taste. Both didn"t understand the meaning and implications of globalization, both sees globalization in economic terms rather it is also cultural, technological and political and globalization is a complex set of processes not a single one. Imagined communities of anderson: nation is an imagined political community, both limited and sovereign.