WSTB13H3 Lecture Notes - Barbara Walters, Ted (Conference), Naomi Klein

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3 Nov 2011

School

UTSC

Department

Women's and Gender Studies

Course

WSTB13H3

Professor

Caleigh Cruickshank

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When we"re talking about women and news there are three things we can talk about, women as news authors, women as news subjects and women as new audiences. Not much coverage is dedicated to international news. Its not because we are not interested. want for americans in a increasingly global world. Some blood is priceless and some blood is cheap. Talks about how 9/11 and how we didn"t see much of the. It"s us that get to choose whose lives are important. things that went on elsewhere. We care about people who look like us more then people who don"t. The people who make media never question process of globalization. The global " we"" reaches into the homes of people who are not apart of the london / new york network. They are not used and they can in turn become angry at that representation. We retire to live inside our advertisements.

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You have been asked to brief your Chief executive, who will be going on a Newsnight panel, tonight, talking about the future of globalization following the events of 2016. She has requested that you give her the three strongest arguments both for and against the proposition that globalization is now in retreat. Write a briefing note covering the two positions for her and give a rationale for choosing which of the two positions is more likely to occur. Please give some good examples that she can use on air.

Over the last decade we have witnessed that the U.S. economy has become increasingly interdependent with the rest of the world. The question is whether U.S. is getting better or worse with globalization. Some believe that globalization will lead to cheaper ways to make products. This will allow businesses to reduce prices. Therefore, consumers will benefit from globalization. Others believe that globalization will lead to loss of jobs in U.S. causing high unemployment and loss of incomes. What do you think? How will globalization impact our economy in both short run and the long run? State your arguments "for" and "against" globalization and finally summarize your view on globalization.

Question 9

The dynamic of FDI is also associated with structural changes in the world economy. Among the most important structural changes in the world, we have:

a. With the increasing importance of transnational corporation, transnational and interregional competition for market share is less intensive

b. Increasing importance of outsourcing

c. New division of labor

d. b) and c) are true

Question 10

With respect to evidence of the globalization of economic activity presented by the author, indicate which of the following propositions is false:

a. Daily turnover on the foreign exchange market more than doubled from 1989 to 2001.

b. Despite the no significant liberalization of national financial markets, the level of global capital flows has expanded significantly.

c. Annual foreign exchange turnover by 2004 was more than sixty times greater than in 1973.

d. All of the above

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