COMM 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Imperialism, Westphalian Sovereignty, Remote Sensing
21 Feb 2017
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Lots of information flow that us is not even apart of. Media black-out leads demonstrators to old school media (fax & dial-up modems) An interconnected and interdependent world with transfer of capital, goods, and services across national boarders. Media industry models: ways of organizing and producing media, draw on dominant international genres formats and programming designs. Glo-cal: global media models with local production. Regionalization: creation of regional markets form media products. Cultural proximity: cultures that are alike prefer media that is similar, language, cultural cues (slang, references, etc. ) National production: increasing production, national controls. Claims to be only political me focused station. Public attention in 2001 when broadcasts osama video"s on. Al jazeera international (2005) 24-hr english, global broadcast 2006, 5 regional focused channels. Cultural imperialism: transborder data flows, unequal flows of information and ideas, exp. Global village: mcluhan one world interconnected by an electronic nervous system, americanization of cultural expression.
