Thursday, 1 March 2012

Globalisation, Sustainability and the Media

Definitions of  Globalisation-
-Socialist- Unified but working together.
-Capitalist- A global market is much better then a national market to them, globalisation is desirable.


-Manfred B.Steger-Globalization: A very Short Introduction


-Macdonalisation of society-american capitalist business dominated the rest of the world.


-Marshall MuLuhan


-The Global Village Thesis- the world would shrink and become an integrated community, the global on a village scale-people being connected would bring us all together.


-Centripetal forces- bringing the world together in uniform global society


-Centrifugal forces- tearing the world apart with tribal wars.


-Who controls the global system?


-Cultural Imperialism- if the global village is run with a certain set of values then it would not be so much as integrated.


-Rigging the 'Free Market'


-Everything you pick up can be traced back to about one of 6 companies.


-US media power can be thought of as a new form of imperialism


-Local cultures destroy in this process and new forms of cultural dependency shaped, mirroring old school colonialism.


-Cultural Imperialism


-Chomsky and Herman- Propaganda Model- 5 Basic filter
-Ownership
-Funding
-Sourcing
-Flak
-Anti Communist ideology


-Rupert Murdoch


-Your news stories are only as good as the stories you're allowed to record.

-Flak-US Based global climate coalition- Information being spread to protect the interest of corporate capitalist companies at the expense of our planet.


-Anti-Ideologies


-Al Gore-'An inconvenient truth'


-Greenwashing


-Environmentalists- See that they can save the planet but keep the system as it is


-Ecologism- The only way to save the planet is to over through the order of the planet.




     
'The propaganda model was put forward by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman in “Manufacturing Consent” (1988) to account for what gets reported as news in America.'

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