GLOBL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Fractal, Gender Role, The Satanic Verses Controversy
Document Summary
Globalizing culture and the information age lecture 3-9. Measuring globalization: extensivity, intesivity- how deep things go, ihr happened after wwii (but no one lived by it, velocity, impact-how much difference it makes when these changes occur, infrastructures, institutionalization, stratification. Early wave of communications and transportation innovations: open channels that cross national borders, decrease costs of transport and transmission, early 20th cent: telegraph, telephone, radio, later 20th cent: digitalization, cable/ fibre optic techs, satellite broadcasting. Intensity of images/ practices: images/ practices now move at more velocity across boundaries, radio broadcasting, film exports, New systems of communication and transport: systems used for commerce and business for production/ transmission of popular culture, boundaries between elite and popular culture dissolve- compete with each other. New agents of cultural diffusion: no longer states and intellectuals primarily, individuals and groups=media industries, publicly owned tv, radio, Stratification of globalization: us replaced europe as west, bollywood becomes hollywood, reversal- from migration of people, international foods/ ideas/ music. etc.
