CHAPTER 7
Jack Lule- conveying something, a channel of
communication
Commentators- “media” (plural of medium)
Print Media- books, magazines, and newspaper
Broadcast Media- radio, film, and television
Digital Media- internet and mobile mass communication
Internet media- email, internet sites, social media, and
internet-based video and audio
Marshall McLuhan- “The medium is the message”
Television – shapes the social behavior
1960’s- television introduced
Smartphones- keep in touch with multiple people
New Media- expand the reach of communication
Global Village- television was turning the world into
Cultural Imperialism- American values and culture would
overwhelm all others
Herbert Schiller- spread “American” capitalist values like
consumerism
John Tomlinson- Western cultural imperialism; promotes
“homogenized”
Text- content of any medium
Ien Ang – studies different viewers in the Netherland's
experience watching the American soup opera “Dallas”
Elihu Katz & Tamas Liebes- push Ang; examining distinct
cultural communities interpreted Dallas
Russian – suspicious of show content
Cultural Imperialism - renowned strength of regional trends
Globalization- the uneven process
Women's March - against newly installed US President
Donald Trump began with a tweet from a lawyer and became
a national global, movement.
Splinternet & Cyberbalkanization- bubble people place
themselves where they are
Echo chamber- existing one’s belief and opinion; preludes
users from listening to or reading online and information
Vladimir Putin- hired armies on social media
Trolls- (paid users to harass political opponents) to manipulate
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan- threatened by online
mobs; hack accounts and threaten violence
Global online propaganda- biggest threat to face
globalization
Alternative facts- distinguish fact from falsehood
Global Monoculture -global television was created
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Saskia Sassen- global city were primarily economic
3 global city; NEW YORK, LONDON, TOKYO - world top
stock exchange
New York Stock Exchange -New York
Financial Times Stock Exchange- London
Nikkei- Tokyo
Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou - center of trade and
finance
Shanghai Stock Exchange – fifth largest stock market in the
world.
Sydney- proportion of capital
Melbourne- Sydney rival ”most livable city”
New York- A Global City located in the United States of
America that house the United Natiens Headquarters and
major International Organization
Tokyo- A Global City in Japan where the main headquarters
of Sony is located and in this headquarter, the company
coordinates the sale of its various electronics goods to
branches across the world.
Australia-A Country in the World where many Asian
teenagers are moving to their cities because of its leading
English-language Universities that their government reported
on earnings in education of $10.2 Billie in 201
Education- Australia’s third-largest export
Shanghai- smaller stock market; busiest container port
Economist Intelligence Unit- measure the competitiveness of
a city; market size, power of citizen, size of middle class
Washington D.C -seat of the American state power; The
Global City in the USA that hosted the known political
landmarks
Major Landmarks
1. White House
2. Capitol Building (Congress)
3. Supreme Court
4. Lincoln Memorial
5. Washington Monument
Canberra – sleepy town and not attractive to tourists
Jakarta - A Global City in Indonesia near the Philippines
where the Headquarters of the Association of Southeast Asian
Nation (ASEAN) is located.
Brussels A Global city located in Belgium where the
headquarters of the European Unions is located.
Frankfurt - A Global City located in Germany hosted the
European Central Bank which oversees the "Euro" (European
Union's Currency) where decisions are made that affects the
political economy of the entire continent and beyond.
London - a Global City in the United Kingdom or Great
Britain which remain as a destination for many Filipinos
especially Nursing Degrees.
Boston-One of the Global Cities in the United States of
America that hosted the Harvard University, the world's top
University and also the reason why many tourists visiting in
this place.
New York Times Square- carries the name of New York City
Los Angeles- American film industry
Copenhagen- capital of Denmark; culinary capital; “New
Nordic” cuisine
Singapore- central hub in the region because it is now houses
some of the region's top television stations and news
organization; ”- Asia’s competitive city
Richard Florida- An American Urban Studies Theorist who
noted that "Ecologists have found out that by concentrating
their population In smaller areas, cities and metros decrease
human encroachment on natural habitats
Vertical Farms- environmentally sustainable cities
World Trade Center( New York)- attack that brought down
the twin towers
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)- attack in Paris
by zealots
Scandinavia- inequality through state-led social
redistributions
Gentrification- driving out the poor in favor of newer
wealthier residents.
Banlieue- Muslim migrant foced out paris and clustered
around ethnic enclaves
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Rural Families- multiple children and large kinship network
Urban Families- couples live on their own; move out from
farmland
Nourishing the Planet- blog site “agricultural population
shrunk
More Modern- a combination of natural outcomes of
significant migration
Thomas Malthus- British scholar “An Essay on the Principle
of Population” population growth exhausts world food supply
Paul R. Ehrlich- and his wife Anne wrote “The population
Bomb” overpopulation bring global environmental disasters
lead to shortage and mass starvation
Philippines, China, and India- lower birth rate unless
controlled
Foreign Affairs- contraception and sterilization
American Billionaires- The ‘nightmarish’ explosion of
people was disastrous environmental, social and industrial
threat to the world
Puerto Rico- regard there work as transforming ‘poor
country’ into ‘modern nation’
Egyptian- ‘irresponsible fecundity’ run on population growth
Iranian- ‘natural’ same rise in population
Indian Government – marked lower casket, Muslims as
hypersexual, and drain on natural resources
Vietnam and Mexico - conducted coercive mass sterilization
Betsy Hartmann- disagree of the neo- Malthusian theory and
accused governments of using population control
Megacities- cluster in disparities; center of economic growth
& activity.
Green Revolution- created high-yielding varieties of rice and
cereal; particularly developing world
Women – often subjects of these population measures;control
whether to have children or not
Reproductive Rights- argue that if population control and
economic development reach their goals
American and Europe- government allows abortion upon
mothers request
Bolivian government- legalization of abortion
Philippines- catholic majority filling case against the law in
the supreme court
Pro- choice advocates- abortion is necessary to protect the
health of the mother
Carrot- and- stick approach – punitive mechanism co exists
alongside benefits not empower women
United Nations International Conference on Population
and Development- women should receive family planning
counseling
The food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Demography- complex discipline requires the integration of
various social scientific data
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Internal Migration- people moving from one area to another
International Migration- people cross boarder of one country
to another
Immigrants- move permanently to another country
Illegal migrants- third group
Petitioned- families to move to the destination country
Refugees (asylum- seekers)- unable or unwilling to return
3 regions origins
1. Latin America- 18 percent
2. Eastern Europe and Central Asia- 16 percent
3. Middle east and north Africa -14 percent
McKinsey Global Institution- first generation immigrants
constitute 13% of the population in western europe 15% in
north American
Migrant Influx- debate whether migratns assests and
liablilities to development.
Anti- immigrant groups and nationalists- government must
control legal immigration and stop illegal entry
US Pres Donald Trump & UK PM Theresa May- reversing
pro- immigration and refugee- s sympathetic policies
Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) – nature born citizens still receive
higher support compared to immigrants
India- highest recorded remittance
Asian Development Bank – do not have significant influence
on consumptions and investments such as education and
health
Global migration– siphoning qualified personnel and
removing dynamic young workers reffered as ‘brain drain’
Government involve recruitment and deployment of workers
departments like
1. Bereau of Manpower
2. Employment and Training in Bangladesh
3. Office of the Protectors of immigrants in Indian
Labor Ministry
4. Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA)