CMN 1160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mediascape, World Summit On The Information Society, Macbride Report

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Daniel Pare

Document Summary

Media geography: shifting dramatically the parameter of the world in which we live and engage in communicative activities. Globalization: the set of processes by which social, cultural, political, and economic relations extend further than ever before with greater frequency, immediacy, and facility; world"s increased economic interdependence, formalized by . Mobility: of people, capital, commodities, information, and images associated with the post-industrial stage of capitalism. Overriding logic of media corporations is to get their product to the largest possible number of consumers. Fordism: assembly-line operations take place in a single, all-encompassing factory. Less important in the age of globalization. Globalization means that national governments no longer enjoy uncontested sovereignty. Harold innes: communications media enable the centralized governance of a political community on the scale of the modern nation state and the centralized administration of a transnational corporation that spans the globe. The media draw macro boundaries of national and linguistic cultures.