AMST 3252W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mediascape, Global Exchange
måndag 13 november 2017
AMST Midterm
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Arjun Appadurai’s concept of ’scapes: Global exchange of ideas and information
-Ethnoscape: Migration of people across cultures and borders, presenting the world
and its communities as fluid and mobile instead of static.
-- Technoscape: New types of cultural interactions and exchange through the power of
technology.
-Finanscapes: Technology is closely related with the finanscape that is close tied with
the economy, which constantly flux, and despite our best efforts to manipulate it, it’s
very unpredictable.
-Mediascape: Understood as the many media outlets (TV, Radio, Newspaper etc…)
that shape our the imagined world. The stories and pictures we are shown through
these mediums form our opinions about a place or culture.
-Ideoscape: Ideologies of a government and those who oppose it and it’s highly
dependent on the context of the spectator.
Mediation and Culture: How different cultural backgrounds can affect how people
solve conflicts and disputes. Mediation is a tool that helps to decrease the gap between
differences, and this requires knowing and respecting cultures that you meet.
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Document Summary
Arjun appadurai"s concept of "scapes: global exchange of ideas and information. Ethnoscape: migration of people across cultures and borders, presenting the world and its communities as uid and mobile instead of static. - technoscape: new types of cultural interactions and exchange through the power of technology. Finanscapes: technology is closely related with the nanscape that is close tied with the economy, which constantly ux, and despite our best efforts to manipulate it, it"s very unpredictable. Mediascape: understood as the many media outlets (tv, radio, newspaper etc ) that shape our the imagined world. The stories and pictures we are shown through these mediums form our opinions about a place or culture. Ideoscape: ideologies of a government and those who oppose it and it"s highly dependent on the context of the spectator. Mediation and culture: how different cultural backgrounds can affect how people solve con icts and disputes.
