CMN 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Manuel Castells, Buckminster Fuller, Francis Fukuyama

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Daniel Pare

Document Summary

Four roles in globalization: media technologies are for encounters, technologies of governance, platforms that situate us in the world/see the world through media tech, media technologies are global industry/globalized business. Invest in global south, they will become developed like the west. Andrew gunder frank: development of underdevelopment/dependency theory: response to rostow, colonization transformed countries to underdevelopment, west responsible for south poverty. Mccluhan: global village: technology, world is becoming tribalized, global village is not characterized by harmonious relations, village was filled with strife, global theatre. Manuel castells: the network society: spread of it and establishment of networks, main media structure of society is the network, will become main organizaing feature of society. Implications on how to think about global relations. 1980s- phase 1: whether or not globalization existed, are media technologies transforming relations between states, economic flows, military flows. 1990s/200s- phase 2: problem defining globalization, what are the consequences, seattle protests against wto- antiglobalization/protestd against neoliberal globalization.