Globalization and Media • communication experience is usually public,

rapid, and transient

Communications media are institutions that specialize
in communicating information, images, and values Importance of Mass Media
about us, our communities, and our society.
• they reflect and create cultural values and
Media Institutions interests
• The medium is the message
• Print Media
• Movies Functions of Mass Media
• Radio
• Warning
• Television
• Companionship
Messages Communicated by Media • Status Conferral
• Agenda Setting: emphasizing what is important
• political or nonpolitical
• Reality Construction: interpretation and
• religious or secular
meaning of a media event
• educational
• Surveillance: collection and distribution of
• purely entertaining
information
Television and Violence • Socialization and Education
• Propaganda: deceit or fraud
• Eli Rubenstein: They (children) imitated
• Mainstreaming: common outlook and set of
aggressive behavior and pretended to be
values
characters in their favorite programs.
• Entertainment
• from 8:00 to 9:00 P.M., has been labeled
• Advertising
"family hour” and is limited to programs
deemed appropriate for family viewing Media Ethics
Media and It’s Limitations • Accuracy
• Objectivity
• Information is power
• Fairness and Balance
• George Orwell: each member of the society is
• Truth
monitored in this way by a powerful central
government • Integrity of Sources
• Avoiding Conflict of Interest
Technological Limits
Solving Ethical Dilemmas (Potter Box)
• technologies give people more opportunities
to choose the type of messages they receive via • Appraising the situation
the media • Identifying values
o Social media: Facebook, Twitter, • Choosing loyalties
Messenger, and YouTube • Journalists should not just reflect society

Social Limits Ethical Problems of Global Journalists

• Another limit on the power of the media is the • Deceit

nature of communication itself • Conflict of Interest
• two-step flow of communication: opinion • Friendship
leaders • Payola
o direct and powerful influence • Freebies
• Checkbook Journalism
The Mass Media
• Participating in the News
• also referred to as mass communication: • Advertising Pressure
unique audience, communication experience, • Invasion of Privacy
and communicator • Withholding Information
• the audience is usually large, heterogeneous • Plagiarism
and anonymous.
Global Cities

- sites and media of globalization

- material representations of the phenomenon
• globalization is a spatial phenomenon
o it takes place in actual spaces
o based in places, which is what propels
it forward

Global City – (sociologist Saskia Sassen – her definition

about GC was mostly based on economic factors)

Indicators for Globality

• Economic Power
o Economic opportunities
o Economic Competitiveness
• Global cities are also centers of authority
o Political Hotspots
• Global cities are centers of higher learning and
culture.
o Education
o Culture

The Challenge of Global Cities

Cities can be sustainable because of their density. As

Richard Florida notes:

"Ecologists have found that by concentrating their

populations in smaller areas, cities and metros
decrease human encroachment on natural habitats.
Denser settlement patterns yield energy savings;
apartment buildings, for example, are more efficient to
heat and cool than detached suburban houses. "

• Inequality
• Poverty
• Tremendous Violence

The Global City and the Poor

economic globalization has paved the way for massive

inequality

• Gentrification is the process of displacing the

poor in favor of newer, wealthier residents.
• ethnic enclaves known as banlieues.