Notes on Media topics

What is globalisation?
· Globalisation is… when things take place in a global arena or scale
· Factors affecting it… P.E.T. (Political, Economic, Technological)
· Since ‘80’s major restructuring of media industries due to globalisation
· Interdependency- helping out countries (3rd world debt)

Hegemonic Version…(Branston and Stafford)
· Enormous process
· Irresistible
· Baffling
· Beyond people’s control
· Inscrutable

Counter-hegemonic Version…(Branston and Stafford)
· Cause - effect relationship between local and global actions and results
· E.g. 3rd world debt
· Open to some kinds of regulation and direction

Uneven Development…
· Lack of free market (no total freedom of speech)
· E.g. The development of Burmese pop music… C.F.I.C. (Censoring, Forbidding exports/imports, Inferior sound systems, Cover versions restrict Burmese identity)

Fragments as it Co-ordinates…
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