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Global Media
Journalism 201
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Journalism
Undergraduate 1
12/02/2010

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What is globalization?
Definition
different parts of the world connect economically, socially, technologically, culturally and politically.
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Impacts of globalization:
Definition
-expansion, delocalization and fragmentation of multinational companies.
-no boundaries
-world society and culture.
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Example of globalization from Africa to the football and other sport games:
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vuvuzela is a music instrument used in S. Africa to communicate messages.
Now it's used to make noise and cheer in games (happened during world cup in s.a)
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Globalization of media:
First satellite:
Definition
Satellites and the internet created ways for media to globalize.
1st: Sputnik (1957) USSR
2nd: Telsar 1 (1962) America
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Different kinds of satellites:
Definition
COMSAT: Communication Satellite corp. 1962
INTELSAT: International Telecommunications satellite org. 1964
INTELSAT transmitted tv images of moon landing 1969
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Marshall McLuhan said "The world is now a 'Global Village'"
Definition
live radio, tv
instant access to networks
cheap, quick, easy for comm. info.
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Some of the largest media corps and read of Global Media
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CNN = 200 countries
MTV = 366 million households w.w.
BBC TV = 36 million American PBS viewers
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American shows that have been popular world wide
Definition
Lost, Who wants to be a millionaire, desperate housewives, law and order
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VOA (voice of america)
TODAY:
Definition
broadcast in 53 languages for 100 million listeners daily. 20 million for devleoping countries
Today: 115 listeners
45 languages
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RFI 9radio france internationale)
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45 million listeners w.w
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Radio Beijing
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broadcast in 40 languages
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"5 Concepts" - William A. Hachten
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-Western = no free media system. public service and gov. concerns are key elements
-Development = gov had some control on media, to serve social, political, and cultural development.
-revolutionary: media must challenge gov. monopoly in order to bring revo changes.
-Authoritarianism and communism = media are totally controlled by gov, who dictate what is seen, read, and heard.
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Sengal in Africa controlled by France
Media Landscape
Definition
From state monopoly to pluralism and globalization.
1960-1980 Monopoly: media system controlled and manipulated by the state. Radio, tv, newspapers have achieve economic and social
LIES: there to preserve ruling party
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Sengal and the emergence of democracy: 1980-1990
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-for pluralism
-political press challenging the state and offering alternative to the state controlled press.
-increase of # of trained journliast who began to contest the states control and media system
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Sengal: Media pluralism, emergence of community media, and globalization 1990-2010
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-states media system in crsis: loss of credibility, economic difficulties
-development of aggressive profit driven sector.
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Sengal 1990-2010
tv
radio
newspapers
Definition
10 daily pro. newspapers
10 weekly mags
first commercial radio 1994
5 commerical radio networks
20 other single radios
5 commercial tv
3 cable tv
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Clandestines stations
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emerge from political conflict usually "darker" side.
Bloomed in Cold War
Indigenous stations are the few clandestine stations operating in transmited regions
EX: Al-zawraa Sunni anti-american and Shiite.
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Exogenous stations are
Definition
hope to influence positivity through the outside into the affected area.
EX: Kim Jong 2 pretunes all radios to his selective stations...only radios smuggled in can project outside stations
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Pirate broadcasters
Definition
illegal operating stations
Radio Caroline and Radio Veronica are two.
BBC is alternate to pirate
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The U.S as an international broadcaster the beginning in WW2
Surrogate services:
Definition
VOA (voice of america) countered enemy propaganda.
Ss= broadcast operations estb. by 1 country to substitute for anothers own domestic service.
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