CMNS 130 Study Guide - Final Guide: General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Marshall Mcluhan

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 130
• Professor: Anis Rahman

Document Summary

Tanner mirrless: global media is making the world smaller, creating greater interconnections between us and producing better understanding between different cultures. The relationship between media and globalization is one of conflict and unequal relationships, where more powerful groups depict others in problematic ways. There is a unidirectio(cid:374)al (cid:862)pressure(cid:863) o(cid:374) the (cid:373)edia i(cid:374) o(cid:374)e (cid:272)ou(cid:374)try fro(cid:373) (cid:373)edia i(cid:374) a(cid:374)other country. Cultural imperialism involved coercive relationships among nation states, where peripheral countries are brought under the control of the imperial centre. Key to this process, for theorists of cultural imperialism, was the media of the dominating cou(cid:374)try, (cid:449)hich (cid:449)as de(cid:448)oted to(cid:449)ard (cid:449)i(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)hearts a(cid:374)d (cid:373)i(cid:374)ds(cid:863) a(cid:374)d facilitati(cid:374)g the extension of imperial control. Globalization: (cid:862)the i(cid:374)te(cid:374)sifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374) of (cid:449)orld(cid:449)ide so(cid:272)ial relatio(cid:374)s (cid:449)hich link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice (cid:448)ersa(cid:863) [gidde(cid:374)s] People are interlinked more now than ever before. The intensification of financial, cultural and political interdependence on a planetary scale.