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Relationship between globalisation/digital forms of communication…
Relationship between globalisation/digital forms of communication
Problems with defining globalisation
Positive process
Produces tolerant/responsible world citizens/raises living standard of developing societies
Negative process
Results in cultural homogenisation (regarded as backwards step)
Complex process
Changes may not be in sync with each other (spread of American cultural products has been mistaken for globalisation)
If globalisation was truly happening, people would have a greater awareness of the world as one unified place. However, nation-state mentality is still dominant
Developments in digital forms of communication
Global village
McLuhan - likened communications/media to giant central nervous system/matrix which ultimately would connect everybody in world as part of one super-culture
Poutney - relationships people have online may be just as significant as those they enjoy offline
Networked global society
Castells - Western societies have entered a period of capitalism in which the main resource is information
Digital forms of communication have decentralised power. Digital technology has resulted in more power in the hands of people
Virtual communities
Globally dispersed people with common interests are no longer constrained by geographical distance/time zones
Virtually impossible to perceive inequalities in online relationships because of anonymity associated with being online
Carter - just as much effort is expended on maintaining relationships in cyberspace as on real face-to-face relationships. People who met online would often meet in real life
Boellstorf - virtual worlds can involve immoral/criminal actions/little regulation of avatar behaviour
Big data
Pountney - five features that differentiate big data from other types of information
1) Volume
2) Velocity
3) Variety
4) Variability
5) Complexity