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SOC 451HIGH-TECH GLOBAL FLOWS
Technology&Media&Internet
Asst. Prof. Fatma Altinbas Sarigul
TECHNOLOGY• Technological innovations are strongly related to
globalization.• One example of a more recent technological
development in the realm of commerce was the creation of the world’s first container ship in 1956.
• The development and expansion of air freight- Boeing 747.
• The founding of Federal Express (FedEx).• The creation of the Universal Product Code (UPC).• The development of personal computers (1970)
and internet.
Medical Technologies
• New health-care technologies (MRIs, CAT scans,etc.)
• Easy to flow around the world.• Too expensive for undeveloped nations and no
availability of trained personnel to use the technology.
• The flow of pharmaceuticals- impact of profit.
MEDIA
• The conventional view was that it was the Western media (specially US) and Western technologies; that was imperialistic and that dominated less developed nations and their cultures.
• Lately, other views have emerged that American media is not as powerful as before global media giants have arisen to compete. For example: Arabic Al Jazeera, Bollywood.
‘New’ Global Media
• Apple iTunes, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft.
• Indymedia: The rise of independent media• Marshall McLuhan, ‘Global Village’
‘New’ Global Media
• Guy DeBord- Media Spectacle; the globalization of such a spectacle and the ability of spectacle to produce and reproduce capitalism and consumer culture.
• To the Frankfurt theorists, the media were of economic significance as a new source of capital realization, but their more important role is in the social control of people and their ability to influence and shape the larger culture.
INTERNET
• The reducing influence of the nation-states.• ıt has prompted a flat world thesis, anyone
can be involved in it.• Creation of barriers; for example: Chinese
government’s ‘Great Firewall’.
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