-socialist
the process of transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones. it can be describes as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together. this process is a combination of economic technological sociocultural and politician forces
-capitalist
the elimination of state enforced restrictions on exchanges across borders and the increasingly integrated and complex global system of production and exchange that had emerged as a result.
possibility of a globalised world sharing all the resources and the possibilities of wealth.
the pursuit of classical liberal (or "free market") policies in the world economy (economic liberalisation) the growing dominance of western (or american) forms of political, economic and cultural life "westernisation" the proliferation of new information technologies (internet revolution) as well as the notion that humanity stands at the threshold of realising one single unified community in which major sources of social conflict have vanished (global integration).
-Stanford encyclopedia
process of globalisation collapses
cultural globalisation did not start with the world wide dissemination of rock and roll and cocacola.
"mcdonaldisaton" wide ranging sociocultral process y which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of american society as well s the rest of the world. "mcjobs" "mccitizens"
menial job low salary for massive profit.
-George Ritzer
Marshall mcluhan
radio and tv, our capacity to hear and see has been extended to a global scale because we can see what going on all around the world. This means we can immediately see the impact of our actions. Also we can see other people and empathise with them, increase the humanity of the world.
as electrically contracted the globe is no more than a village. electric speed at bringing all social and political functions together in a sudden implosion has heightened...
he was wrong quite a lot. were not a single unified global tribe.
does globalisation around the world make the world more alike or more different?
"pessamistic hyperglobalizers"
If the global village is run with a certain set of values then it would not be so much an integrated community as an assimilated one.
-schiller
-chomsky
argue that building an empire happens in much more subtle ways. "cultural imperialism"
Rigging the 'free market' media conglomerate operate as oligopolies. giant system for spreading western culture globally.
US media power can be though of as a new form of imperialism
-local cultures destroyed in this process and new forms of cultural dependancy shaped mirroring old school colonialism
-Schiller- dominance of US driven commercial media forces US model of broadcasting onto the rest of the world...
Rupert Murdoch
An inconvenient truth. - Al Gore
if we did something about global warming, it would effect profits etc.
to fix the planet created by excessive consumption you have to buy more things....(solar panels, special light bulbs etc)
cocacola plantbottle.
The Wil drinkable book
'the story of stuff' free range studios
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