- Socialist:
Transforming a local or regional phenomena into a global one. People of the world are unified into a single society and function together.
- Capitalist:
The elimination of stat informed restrictions on exchanges across borders.
- What is globalisation?
- 'The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.'
- *American sociologist George Ritzer 'McDonaldisation' - research
- Jihad vs. McWorld. The two axial principles of our age—tribalism and globalism —clash at every point except one: they may both be threatening to democracy. - *read pdf
Problems of Globalisation:
- Sovereightny: Challenges to the idea of the nation-state
- Accountability: transnational forces & organisations - who controls them?
- Identity: Who are we? Nation, group, community?
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.
Key Thinkers:
- Schiller
- Chomsky
'US media power can be thought of as a new form of imperialism'
What is imperialism?
'a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.'
- Local cultures destroyed in this process
- New forms of cultural dependence shaped
Chomsky & Herman (1998)
Propaganda Model - 5 basic filters:
- Ownership
- Funding
- Sourcing
- Flak
- Ideology
- Global Climate Collation (GCC)
- The GCC was started by Burson Marsteller - largest public relations company to rubbish the ideas of climate scientists and 'scare stories'
*Al Gore, An inconvenient Truth
Greenwashing*
How are companies making their products 'look' green?
Ecologism- No pyramid
- No chain
- The Drinkable Book*
Transforming a local or regional phenomena into a global one. People of the world are unified into a single society and function together.
- Capitalist:
The elimination of stat informed restrictions on exchanges across borders.
- What is globalisation?
- 'The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.'
- *American sociologist George Ritzer 'McDonaldisation' - research
- Jihad vs. McWorld. The two axial principles of our age—tribalism and globalism —clash at every point except one: they may both be threatening to democracy. - *read pdf
Problems of Globalisation:
- Sovereightny: Challenges to the idea of the nation-state
- Accountability: transnational forces & organisations - who controls them?
- Identity: Who are we? Nation, group, community?
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.
Key Thinkers:
- Schiller
- Chomsky
'US media power can be thought of as a new form of imperialism'
What is imperialism?
'a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.'
- Local cultures destroyed in this process
- New forms of cultural dependence shaped
Chomsky & Herman (1998)
Propaganda Model - 5 basic filters:
- Ownership
- Funding
- Sourcing
- Flak
- Ideology
- Global Climate Collation (GCC)
- The GCC was started by Burson Marsteller - largest public relations company to rubbish the ideas of climate scientists and 'scare stories'
*Al Gore, An inconvenient Truth
Greenwashing*
How are companies making their products 'look' green?
Ecologism- No pyramid
- No chain
- The Drinkable Book*
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