week 12 Globalization

Question 1

what is globalization?

Answer 1

interconnecting structural and cultural forces that support the spread of ideas and technology and influence social and economic organizations of society

Question 2

what are the features of globalization?

Answer 2

1. the growing level of connectedness at all levels
2. the reduction in the distance between individuals, society and nation-states
3. awareness of global phenomena
4. a decrease in the significance of other kinds of identities
5. the possibility of greater reflexivity among social actors, more critical of the immediate environment and allows people to compare their experiences with those living in other societies

Question 3

how is globalization media spread

Answer 3

the dominance of global media is spread and supported by a small number of transnational media companies

Question 4

what is increasing in these media organizations

Answer 4

a deregulated environment that these media organizations operate

Question 5

what does the globalization of media do to the media

Answer 5

makes it all similar and standardization in certain products produced ad distributed by global media industries

Question 6

is their an uneven flow of information and communication products within the global system

Answer 6

yes , different levels of access that global citizens have to global networks

Question 7

what is global media linked to in forms of ideology?

Answer 7

consumerism and therefore bound up with the capitalist project

Question 8

who owns the media

Answer 8

6 companies

Question 9

what does cultural globlaisation flows and coun ter flows

Answer 9

the westernization of media