CMST 1A03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Nationstates, World-Systems Theory, Manuel Castells

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

Document Summary

Cultural dependency: a relationship in which one country comes to rely on the media products of stronger, exporting countries to satisfy the cultural and entertainment needs of its population. Fordism: the concentration of production on a single site modelled after henry ford"s automobile assembly lines, whereby raw materials are turned into standardized finished products as part of a single, multi-faceted mass-production process. Information flows: patterns of circulation of information commodities or products; a summary concept describing the imports and exports of goods, specifically information and entertainment products. Media geography: the physical space that any given media organization occupies and seeks to serve. Example: a national t. v. network occupies and serves audiences and advertisers within a given country. Media imperialism: the use of the media to build empires of influence and control. Mediascape: image-centered and narrative accounts of strips of reality. Mobility: a characteristic that refers to the relative portability or transportability of people, cultural products, investment capital, organizations etc.