CHAPTER 3: GLOBAL NETWORKS

LESSON 1: THE NATURE OF GLOBAL NETWORKS

At the end of the lesson, each student must be able to:

a. define global networks
b. determine the situation of a global network

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 DEFINING GLOBAL NETWORKS

• Robert Holton (2008) describes it as a “major feature of contemporary process of

globalization

• The concept is made up of two terms:

 Global, that an entity’s reaches are beyond territorial boarders
 Zeev Maoz (2011), defines network as a set of units with a particular rule

• Global network can be defined as a set of manifesting certain ties and operate beyond
territorial boarders of particular country
 CHARACTERISTICS OF A GLOBAL
NETWORK

1. Global networks cross “borders” and connect more than one country

2. Movement across a boundary is long-term

3. Global networks are not confined within a particular country

 ACTIVITY 9: GLOBAL NETWORK OR NOT?
Directions: Determine if the following situations can be considered as examples of global network. Be able to explain
why you think the situation is an example or not an example of global network.

Situation #1:

The President of the University of the Philippines attends an international conference of university heads and leaders
of Bangkok, Thailand.

Is this an example of global network? Why? _____________________________________________________

Situation #2:

An international nongovernment organization in Southeast Asia that is tasked to monitor cases of human right
violation in the region is established.

Is this an example of global network? Why? _______________________________________________________

 TYPES OF GLOBAL NETWORKS

At the end of the lesson, each student must be able to:

a. understand the different types of global network
b. identify the global origins of a particular product

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 TYPES OF GLOBAL NETWORKS

• There are two major types of global networks:

1. Technical global network is a form of global network adopted from

telecommunications systems.

2. Interpersonal global network is a form of global network that includes

cross-border groups
 HOLTON’S TYPES OF GLOBAL
NETWORKS
• Advocacy networks – exchange of information or services

• Business, trading, and commercial networks – economic networks

• Friendship networks – social communication

• Imperial networks – spatial patterns of connection

• Information networks – new technologies of communication

• Knowledge/Intellectual networks – transmission of knowledge

• Migrant networks – settling in new territory

• Policy networks – stable relation

• Professional networks – promotion of professionals

• Religious networks – religions practiced

• Terrorists networks – terrorists groupings

• Women’s networks – focus on many networks

ACTIVITY 10: CHOOSE, DRAW & EXPLAIN!

Choose a particular product and identify the global origins of its

parts/ingredients. Draw a map that shows the geographical origins of the

different components/ingredients of that particular gadget or product. Be able to

explain how the product is an example of global network production.