CMST 1A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: North American Free Trade Agreement, Network Society, Political Economy

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 1A03
• Professor: Terence Flynn

Document Summary

Media imperialism: exploitation of global media markets to build political economic and ideological empires of influence and control. Globalization: the set of processes by which social, cultural, political and economic relations extend further than ever before, with greater frequency, immediacy and facility. It also refers to increased mobility of people, capital, commodities, information and images associated with the post industrial stage of capitalism. Fordism: assembly-line operations that takes place in a single, all-encompassing factory. Cultural dependency: a less deterministic means of characterizing cultural trade imbalances than the media imperialism (it is a theory of globalization) Information flow: the transfer of information from a variable to another variable in given process. It means that the internet connected the world has considerable implication for the inclusion and exclusion of people and places. Spatialization: the process of overcoming the constraints of space and time, defined by political economist vincent mosco. Mediaspace: (cid:862)i(cid:373)age-ce(cid:374)tered(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)(cid:374)arrative accou(cid:374)ts of strips of reality(cid:863)