KXB102 Lecture 2: KXB102- Week 2 Lecture
4 May 2018
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Week 2- KXB102 Lecture 27/7/15
Global History
It’s been an ongoing process throughout history.
Impact of media and communication technologies
-sense of space and place
-interaction
-audience size
-power
Imperialism!
!
So what?
Process of imposition, domination, and regulation in which one nation’s culture and economic
structures overwhelms another nation’s
Diminishes local production/programming
Imposes foreign standards
Imposes foreign values
Promotes global homogenisation
Linked to economic, political domination
Globalisation in an inherent part of world history
Yet, its recent acceleration is explicitly linked to new media and communication technology
…because of the impact on social relations worldwide
Scholarly debates first emerged in the sixties and seventies (satellite television, post-war pop
culture, news and information flows)
Why the emergence of radio?
Highlights central role of technology, industry, and entertainment
Illustrates common responses to and limitations of imperialism thesis
Battle of the radio ‘paradigms’ established the terms for subsequent debates about imperialism
Debates draw much of their explanatory power from fragile notions of the ‘nation’
What is a nation?
(ideally) it’s an imagined community with inherent limits and a common state
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Document Summary
Process of imposition, domination, and regulation in which one nation"s culture and economic structures overwhelms another nation"s. Globalisation in an inherent part of world history. Yet, its recent acceleration is explicitly linked to new media and communication technology. Because of the impact on social relations worldwide. Scholarly debates rst emerged in the sixties and seventies (satellite television, post-war pop culture, news and information ows) Highlights central role of technology, industry, and entertainment. Illustrates common responses to and limitations of imperialism thesis. Battle of the radio paradigms" established the terms for subsequent debates about imperialism. Debates draw much of their explanatory power from fragile notions of the nation". What is a nation? (ideally) it"s an imagined community with inherent limits and a common state. Why is it fragile? because nations are internally diverse and thus often at odds with hegemonic notions of national identity. In the u. k. , american chaos as industrially unorganised and culturally vulgar helped ensure paternalistic public service monopoly.
