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Definitions:
Culture - The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious or social group.
Media - It describes the various ways through which we communicate in society.
Media Culture - This refers to the culture created under the influence of mass media.
While in everyday language, "globalization" usually refers to economic and political integration on a world
scale, it also has a crucial cultural dimension in which the media have a central role.
Media Globalization is about how most national media systems have become more internationalized,
becoming more open to outside influences, both in their content, and in their ownership, and in control.
In the Philippines, foreign ownership and control of certain activities and enterprises is not allowed. The Anti-
Dummy Law prohibits foreigners from circumventing these restrictions through arrangements like using
Filipino proxies or dummies.
● Oral Communication
- Speech is often the most overlooked medium in histories of globalization. Yet the oral
medium – human speech – is the oldest and most enduring of all media.
- Language allows humans to communicate and share information.
● Script
- Script allowed humans to communicate over a larger space and for much longer duration.
- It allowed for the written and permanent codification of economic, political, cultural,
religious, and political practice.
● Print Media
- Print media allowed the continuous production, reproduction and circulation of (print)
information.
- With the advent of the printing press, reading material suddenly was cheaply made and
easily circulated
● Electronic Media
- Electronic Media requires electromagnetic energy to use. The telegraph, telephone, radio,
film, and television are the usual media collected under electronic media.
- The wide range of these media continue to open up new perspectives on economic, political,
and cultural processes of globalization.
● Digital Media
- Digitized content that can be transmitted over internet or computer networks.
- The computer is the usual representation of the digital media. It is considered as the most
significant medium to influence globalization.
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- Computers allow citizens access to information from around the world, even
- information that governments would like to conceal.
Cultural Homogenization
● One of the most significant effects of media globalization is its impact on culture. As people around
the world consume content from diverse sources, cultures, and languages, a hybridization of cultures
occurs. This can lead to both the preservation of cultural diversity and the blending of traditions.
● However, concerns about cultural homogenization, where dominant cultures overshadow local
identities, have also been raised. Nonetheless, media globalization has allowed for the sharing of
cultural narratives and perspectives that might have otherwise remained hidden.
Cultural homogenization refers to the process of cultures becoming more similar due to globalization.
● Television Shows can shape cultural narratives and reflect societal issues, trends, and historical
events.
- They can foster empathy and dialogue around themes like class struggle, ultimately broadening our
global perspective and encouraging cross-cultural connections that might have otherwise gone
unnoticed.
● Meme, unit of cultural information spread by imitation.
- Memes are cultural ideas that spread and repeat themselves across society.
● Being “canceled” on a social media platform refers to when a user is called out en masse by
thousands of other users and publicly shamed online.
● Being in a filter bubble means these algorithms have isolated you from information and perspectives
you haven't already expressed an interest in.
● Fake news is information that is clearly and demonstrably fabricated and that has been packaged
and distributed to appear as legitimate news.
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TAKE-AWAYS
● Media globalization is a transformative phenomenon that has revolutionized the way information
and culture are disseminated across the globe.
● While facilitating cross-cultural exchange and enhancing access to diverse content, media
globalization also raises questions about cultural homogenization and information reliability.
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Religion
● Religion is from the Latin verb “Religare” which means “to tie” or “to bind fast”
● Religions are belief systems that relate humanity to spirituality.
● Religion connects this world from the beyond.
within the individual, and whose teachings are derived from either a real or
legendary figure.
- The label cult is often attached to a religious group that society considers as
deviant or non-traditional. Hence, the term cult is often used in a negative
way.
Religion
- Less concerned with wealth;
- A religious person's main duty is to live a virtuous, sinless life;
- The religious aspires to be saint;
- The Religious is concerned with spreading holy ideas globally;
- Religion seeks to take the place of these broken “traditional ties” to either help
communities cope with their new situation or organize them to oppose this major
transformation of their lives.
Globalization
- Less worried about whether they will end up in heaven or hell;
- They aim to seal trade deals, raise the profits of private enterprises, improve
government revenue;
- Globalist trains to be a shrewd businessperson.
- Globalists wish to spread goods and services.
- Globalization has freed communities from the “constraints of the nation-state”
Globalization Of Religion
- The spread of religions or religious expressions across the globe.
- The study of secularism and the adaptation of secularization in various
cultures and faiths across the globe.
- Ex. Christianity and a colonial expansion. - The spread of Islam through trade
and conquest. - Secularization in western Europe & US and the rise of
“Nones”.
While religion deepens and shapes the cultural and emotional aspects of the Israel -
Palestine conflict, it is only one of many interwoven factors. The cone issues revolve around
national identity, territorial control, historical grievances, and political sovereignty, with
religion influencing ways these factors manifest and resonate.