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Globalization and Media Creating The Global Village
Globalization and Media Creating The Global Village
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CURRENT ISSUES
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TELEVISION LANDSCAPE
Free-to-air TV Pay TV
7 channels
Issues:
End Poverty and Hunger
Universal Education
Gender Equality
Child Health
Maternal Health
Combat HIV/AIDS
Environmental Sustainability
Global Partnership
Continues ….
Communication as Dialogue:
Dialogue cannot occur between those who deny oth
er men the right to speak their word and those whos
e right to speak has been denied them.
Dialogue cannot be carried in a climate of hopelessn
ess.
Without dialogue there is no communication, and wit
hout communication there can be no true education
(change).
Strength of Weak Ties
The emergence of the Internet and its extensive glob
al networks has given traditional, interpersonal face-
to-face horizontal communication a sizable boost.
The masses who find it difficult to make themselves
heard can now depend on the Internet as a method
of expressing their views and initiating change.
Summary
Globalization is much like fire. Fire itself is neither go
od nor bad (kecil jadi kawan, besar jadi lawan).
ICT as alternatives enhance national development, n
ational unity, .
While some people think of globalization as primarily
a synonym for global business, it is much more than
that.
As Friedman says: "[Globalization] can be incredibly
empowering and incredibly coercive. It can democrat
ize opportunity and democratize panic. It makes the
whales bigger and the minnows stronger. It leaves y
ou behind faster and faster, and it catches up to you
faster and faster. While it is homogenizing cultures, it
is also enabling people to share their unique individu
ality farther and wider."
Tutorial Task
1. Give an accessible overview of globalizatio
n & the pivotal role of the media.
2. Find the concepts & theories of globalizatio
n.
3. What are the consequences of the globali
zation of communications?