GASB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hard Power, Participatory Culture, Collective Intelligence
GASB05-Lecture 5- Review, Imperialism, Militarisation, and “The People”
Review:
- “the idea of targeting and restricting the travel of individuals based on their nationality or
birthplace is antithetical to everything we strand for as an institution and a country”
- Assignment due February 7th
- Media imperialism as “inequalities o media power between countries”
oIt is not about territory anymore
oThere was a controversy and “cover-up” between nationalities’ and their media
The shooting in Quebec:
Canada: terrorist attack
Dutch: the shooter was distressed
- Evolving set of theories/idea
oSuperpower interventions not aimed at territory but ideology/ foreign policy goals
o
- Critique:
oToo content focused, perspective too narrow, ignoring “new” media, both a trans- and
intranational process
- A Leninist/ Marxist theorization of imperialism:
oThe formation of international capitalist monopiles which share the world among
themselves
oIntellectual property and commercial values are embedded in platforms
oNotion of intellectual properties and a way of optionalizing power
oBeneficial for China for tpp (Trade agreement to have more intellectual property rights)
Pirated movies
- New Forms of Power:
oWhat are new forms of power in terms of platform imperialism?
Capital (money)
Infrastructure:
This part of the argument is not seen in many accounts of imperialism
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Document Summary
Gasb05-lecture 5- review, imperialism, militarisation, and the people . The idea of targeting and restricting the travel of individuals based on their nationality or birthplace is antithetical to everything we strand for as an institution and a country . Media imperialism as inequalities o media power between countries : it is not about territory anymore, there was a controversy and cover-up between nationalities" and their media. Evolving set of theories/idea: superpower interventions not aimed at territory but ideology/ foreign policy goals o. Critique: too content focused, perspective too narrow, ignoring new media, both a trans- and intranational process. This part of the argument is not seen in many accounts of imperialism. This is a recent development over the past 5 years: the acknowledgement of this aspect is new, not the presence of infrastructure (this was known from a long time)
