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When we talk about the way a group of persons or an individual behaves as well
as their knowledge and beliefs with regards to home and living, fashion and identity,
health and wellbeing, arts and entertainment, food and drink as well as work and
interacts with international culture, it results in three things which are cultural
defined as the dissemination of ideas and values across different countries or cultures
which leads to positive interconnectedness of individuals. But the question here is how
does cultural globalization happen? It can happen in several ways but nowadays, the
digital media. Digital media as compared to electronic media relies on digital codes
while electronic media requires the use of electricity. Because of digital media, election
campaign in politics has a wider reach while in economics, promotions of goods and
services as well as online shopping has become easily attainable. Connecting the two
between the two. Digital media affects cultural globalization in both positive and
globalization of culture due to its ability to disassociate from the actual as cultural
globalization tends to ease virtually than personally wherein it enables a wider range of
imagined subjectivities. On the other hand, digital media also supports globalization of
culture as it develops new systems of how individuals and entities could connect leading
to global interconnectedness.
Digital media plays a big role in our daily lives. Some examples of these include
software, social media, web pages, websites, video games as well as digital images,
videos and audios. By the means of digital media, it affects cultural globalization as well
as culture itself in both positive and negative ways as mentioned earlier. In my own
opinion, I believe that digital media supports cultural globalization more than delaying it.
For example, social media, beside increasing the interaction between individuals from
perspectives are shared as well as visuals. Facebook, to be specific, shows its support
to cultural globalization due to the fact that there are more than 70 translations available
permits individuals to interconnect with the global population through viewing and
sharing videos. With different video contents shared by people around the world,
traditional stereotypes decline since individuals have the freedom to comment and
partake on discussion on a certain matter. With this, it served as a motivation for global
change.
The conveyance of ideas, knowledge, opinion and values around the globe with
the help of digital media intensifies the social relations of different cultures. Digital media
negative effect. But as time passes by, the global community tend to have a wider
understanding of one’s culture with its help. They tend to possess an open mind and
broadening one’s way of thinking about different ways of life, specifically the cultural
differences. Digital media influences the growth of one’s sensitivity and creativity, thus,