Political Science 2143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Technological Determinism, International Inequality, Information Economy
4 Jan 2021
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Globalization: refers to the rapidly developing process of complex interconnections, connections between time and space, and compression of time and space, makes world smaller. Argument is that globalization is a positive, unstoppable force. Growth of free trade, goods and services. Don"t disagree that it exists argue that it is another term for western global/cultural imperialism. Values are not becoming shared values that are inclusive, but that a certain set of values are being transmitted to the entire world. Glocalization large multinational corporations create local versions of their own product, creating unequal playing fields. Impact of new technologies is central on this new discussions. Technological determinism: technology determines social structures and cultural values. Why and when technology develops is usually due to a political agenda. Political economy who owns the media, who owns the infrastructure. Some scholars have argued that we are living in a post-industrial and that it has shifted from capitalism to knowledge-production industry.
