MEDIA AND GLOBALIZATION !!

Nevertheless, it leaves room for dynamism and

cultural change
MEDIA
- a means of conveying something, such as a
channel of communication (Ex. Voice) SOCIAL MEDIA

- technologies of mass communication SPLINTERNET/CYBERBALKANIZAtion

* Medium – singular form of media - “separation” - European states not united

- segregation of internet into smaller groups with
similar interests, to a degree that they show a
MARSHALL MCLUHAN narrow-minded approach to outsiders or those with
contradictory views.
- Media Theorist
* Balkans: a political region in southeastern Europe
- “The medium is the message” = regardless of the with a history of partitioned cultures, languages and
message, the medium can influence society religion.
- Media simultaneously EXTEND and Results of reading same articles and the like with
AMPUTATE human senses like-minded friends:
- New media are neither inherently good nor bad  Echo Chamber, reinforcing existing beliefs
- TV was turning the world into a “Global Village” and opinions
 Being social media bubbles = HERD
MENTALITY
THE GLOBAL VILLAGE
CONCLUSION
- as more people will watch TV and listen to the
same stories, their perception of the world would - Global monoculture (imperialism)
contract. - Splinter cultures and ideas into bubbles of people
* Media scholars after McLuhan: global media had who do not interact
a tendency to homogenize culture.
GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHY
DEMOGRAPHY
CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
- study of human populations; their size,
- American values and culture would overwhelm all composition and distribution across space and the
others process through which populations change
- Cultural globalization = western cultural 3 ASPECTS OF DEMOGRAPHY (BIG THREE)
imperialism
1. Birth
2. Deaths
MEDIA/CULTURAL IMPERIALISM? REAL OR
3. Migration
NOT?
NOTE: Discussion is in General Viewpoint!
- People from diverse cultural backgrounds have
their own ways of understanding Western shows CHILDREN
- Renewed strength of regional trends 2 Communities
!! Globalization remains an uneven process and 1. Rural/Provincial
will produce inequalities
- tend to have more children
 * Having more children to help in
agricultural business.
2. Urbanized/Cities
- desires just one or two
* You are alone in the city.
 Countries that rely on agriculture tend to
maintain high level of population growth
 Urban populations have also grown because
of industries and businesses
 International migration also plays a part
OVERPOPULATION. PERILS.
Negative Side of Overpopulation
Thomas Malthus:
“Population growth will inevitably exhaust
world supply”
Malthusianism
- Food storage and mass starvation
 States sought to lower birth rates
 1958: Contraception and sterilization
 Promotion of reproductive health
 “Birth control” programs
Positive side of Overpopulation
* NEO MALTHUSIAN THEORISTS:
“Instead of population control, focus on land
distribution, employment creation, mass education
etc.”
 Growing population helps technological
innovation
 More babies = more working population =
economic growth
WOMEN & Reproductive Rights
Reproductive Rights Supporters:
- women must have control over whether they
will have children or not and they will, if any
- women can spend more time pursuing higher
education or their careers
- allowing abortion to preserve physical health of
mother
*** Anti Reproductive Rights
- Abortion must be banned
- The mother will go to hell; the baby will
not come human.
POPULATION AND FOOD
* 7,816,208,354 : Current world population
* 2050: 9.5 billion
* 2100: 11.2 billion
* Male median age: 29.4 years
* Female median age: 30.9 years
 Food & Agriculture Organization Recommends:
1. Increase food production by 70%
2. Increase investments in agriculture
3. Keep government markets open for a global
system
FIAT PANIS – Let there be bread.
THE GLOBAL CITY
Why Study Cities?
 Sites of globalization
 Medium of globalization
INDICATORS OF A GLOBAL CITY:
I. Economic power – opportunities
1. Market Size
2. Purchasing power of citizens
3. Size of the middle class
4. Potential for growth
II. Center of authority – political capital
III. Having centers of higher learning and culture e. Refugees
- “someone who is unable or unwilling to
return to their country of origin owing to a well-
CHALLENGES IN GLOBAL CITIES founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of
- Sites of great inequality and poverty race, religion, nationality, membership of a
particular social group, or political opinion.”
- Extreme pollution (UNHCR) – 1951 Refugee Convention
- Major terror attacks

MIGRATION BY THE NUMBERS

THE GLOBAL CITY AND THE POOR
* 2% of landmass is used by cities but consumes
78% of power
* Global Cities erases middle class
- richer gets richer, poorer goes poorer
 247 million people currently live outside
their countries of birth due to
- 90% economic reasons
- 10% refugees or asylum seekers
 Top country destination: United States @
cities 90%

GENTRIFICATION ANTI-IMMIGRANTS GROUPS &

- Phenomenon of driving out the poor in
favor of newer, wealthier residents.
- as city attracts richer residents, real estate
prices go up and poor residents are forced to
relocate faraway
CONCLUSION
- Sites and mediums of globalization
NATIONALISTS:
- governments must control legal immigration and
stop illegal entry of foreigners
WHY?
- Immigrants will get the job for the locals
- Immigrants will benefit more from the
economy

- Generate tremendous wealth

- Site of great inequality XENOPHOBISM
- The fear and hatred of foreign

GLOBAL MIGRATION
WHAT STUDIES SAY
TYPES OF MIGRATION
 impact of immigration on social welfare is “very
1. Internal Migration- people moving from one
small” (2011)
area to another within one country
 Native-born citizens still receive higher support
2. International Migration- people across borders compared to immigrants (2013)
of one country to another.
SENDING COUNTRIES
a. People who move permanently to another
 They get Remittances (GOOD!)
country are called Immigrants
Oversea Filipino workers – modern
b. Workers who stay in another country for a
“bayanis”
period
 Giving away qualified personnel and
c. Illegal migrants
removing dynamic young workers (BAD!)
d. “Petitioned” migrants
  Brain Drain 1. Natural Changes: Volcanic eruptions release
sulfur dioxide
2. Human Contribution: Burning of wood and
HUMAN TRAFFICKING garbage
- 3rd largest criminal activity worldwide 3. Combos: Sandstorm + Combustion exhaust +
A trafficked person is someone: industrial waste

 Recruited Ex. Riyadh – one of the most polluted cities

 Transported
 Transferred EFFECTS OF POLLUTION:

 Harbored 1. DESERTIFICATION

Illegal means: - Land degradation; 28,000 rivers have

disappeared in China (2013)
 Fraud
2. DEATHS
 Force
- lung cancer, kidney stones, shorter life
 Other forms of coercion expectancy

** Exploitation includes the exploitation includes CATCH UP

the exploitation of the prostitution of others, forced
labor, slavery, servitude, removal of organs. 1950 – Industrial Revolution: developed and
urbanized a society.
Ex. United States
SMUGGLING OF MIGRANTS
- worst polluter in the world – 27% of the
- crime when someone facilitates persons illegal worlds carbon dioxide emissions
entry of a person that is not national and resident in
order to obtain benefit.
CLIMATE CHANGE

INTEGRATION * Fight against climate change

- Access to housing, health care and education Kyoto Protocol (1997)

- Grant of citizenship and rights - 192 countries; reduces greenhouses

- Linguistic and ethnic barriers - non binding in nature

- New citizens are not nationals Paris Accord/Agreement (2016)

CONCLUSION - 195 countries

- Uneven - limit CO2 emission

- Beneficial and Threat - limiting increase of global average

temperature
CONCLUSION
ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
- You belong to the world and your lives are
POLLUTION COMES FROM: connected to global processes.