Discuss the significances and effects of globalization/global cultures on contemporary television.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 05:27:04
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 2 pages (675 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 2 pages (675 words)
Globalization is defined as a concept which reveals the compression and intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole (Robertson, 1992 cited in Barker, 1999). It is a phenomenon that gives people worldwide, immediate access to other cultures, making it practically impossible for societies to exist in complete isolation (Cunningham et al. 1998). Through globalization, television creates the "armchair traveller"; it allows people from different parts of the world to visually experience a radically different culture without …
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…amp;lt;Tab/>Cunningham, S, Jacka, E and Sinclair, J 1998, 'Global and Regional Dynamics of International Television Flows' in D. Kishan Thussu (ed.), Electronic Empires: Global and Local Resistance, Arnold, London.
o<Tab/>Lost 2004, ABC Inc., United States of America. Produced by J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof.
o<Tab/>Survivor: The Australian Outback 2001, CBS Broadcasting Inc, United States of America. Produced by Mark Burnett.
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