Lecture 6

THE MEDIA, GLOBALISATION AND SUSTAINABILITY

-Socialist- process of transformation of local/regional phenomena into global ones.

-Described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together.

-Process=combination of economic/technological/sociocultural and political forces.

-Capitalist- elimination of state-enforced restrictions on exchanges across borders

-McDonaldization - mc donalds dominating society

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

-Marshall McLuchan

-Global village thesis

-Centripetal forces (good) vs. Centrifugal forces (bad)

-New cold war-loss of faith in the secular nationstate

Religious Nationalism

self-society- Communal

knowledge- Faith

religion- Church/state joined

politics- authoritarian, personal

economy- local capitalism/ socialism

Globalisation

self-society- Unit in global market

knowledge- Media

religion- Religion irrelevant

politics- Superpower (US) & transnational agencies e.g. WTO, UN

economy- Transnational corporate

-Problems of globalisation:

1)sovereignty

2)accountability

3)identity

-Cultural Imperialism

-Schiller

-Chomsky (key thinkers)

-owenership

-sourcing

-funding

-Flak

-Anti- ideologies

-An inconvenient truth (2006) Al Gore

-Flat earthers

-Sustainability \

- Greenwashing

-G20 Summit