CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Network Society, Foxconn, Dominant Ideology
25 Jun 2014
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3 major pillars: deregulation (removing government rules to limit government free market activities many companies are part this, privatization (taking a public company, and taking it into private service health care, etc. , opposite: nationalizing, the government turning it into the public, liberalization (ideology of globalization) Foxconn is a taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in tucheng, new taipei, taiwan. It is the world"s largest electronics contractor manufacturer, and the third-largest information technology company by revenue. Instant common major developments: telegraph (revolutionary messages can be delivered instead of physically delivering it, telephone, transatlantic radio link, _______, ________ Cultural imperialism: the idea that one culture values, traditions and belief systems infatuate into another one, but not by force, more towards the ruling of the other sides consent, the unidirectional nature of international media flows from a small number of source countries to target countries, the idea that media flows from one country to target nations.
