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The Role of Communications For Globalization and Cosmopolitansim
The Role of Communications For Globalization and Cosmopolitansim
The Role of Communications For Globalization and Cosmopolitansim
- Emergence of the
’imagined community
- Formation of nation-states
- Democratization of
religion -> reformation
- Emphasis on vernacular
The technological deterministic
discourse 2.
Computer mediated communcation
(cmc) ->
- Revolutions in education
- Knowledge-society
- No social classes
Control. History.
Man or Machine?
Castells, M (1996)
- ”technology does not determine society. Nor does society script the course of
technological change. Technology is society”
- Role of the state
Mosco, V (2006).
- New technologies enter society, myths of great change/improvement are created
around these new technologies. The same political economy dynamics remain.
2. Globalization and Communication
Defining Globalization
The uprooting of human activities – political, cultural,
economic, social
or:
interconnectedness -> interdependencies of many
different parts in the world.
(Appiah, 2006: x)
Tracing the History of the
Globalization of Communication
Thompson, J. (1995). Media and Modernity – ch. 5 ’The
Globalization of Communication’
Main points:
2.) 19th century. Emergence of global news networks. Significant in three ways
1.) News over large territories
2.) Global in scope
3.) Reached big audiences
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