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Globalization exopositions (2)
Meme Templates as Expressive Repertoires in a Globalizing World: A Cross-Linguistic Study
Just like an organism which reproduces and mutates, a cultural unit is spread from one person to another through copying and imitation.
Because of the development of the Internet and the rapidity of circulation of messages, memes now have a huge impact on the digital culture
Authors concluded that’s memes are mostly used for stigmatization of minorities, to express conservatives ideas and negatives emotions and can participate to construct social identities.
“In the cultural sphere, the notion of globalization has been challenged by concepts such as “glocalization,” which argues that the global does not replace the local but rather interacts and intertwines with it.
Globalization and gender : The missing girls of India
Today, 63 million women are « missing » in India
This imbalance is actually a consequence of the prenatal sexual selection of women and girls based solely on their gender.
the birth of a son is always more desired than the birth of a daughter
justify some inequalities and forms of violence against women in the country such as the phenomena of female foeticides based solely on their sex
sons can help the family and be a real support to parents, in that they possess a labor force and empowerment that daughters doesn’t
The expansion of globalization has thus been presented as an emancipatory door for the female population
with the acquisition of a labor force, women would be less discriminated in favor of boys
the opening up of the Indian economy in the 1990s has also allowed several multinationals to enter the sex determination equipment business
the acquisition of such machines increases competition among private practitioners, leading to lower prices for testing and increased misuse of these techniques to recoup costs
Globalization and mental health
Commission on Social Determinants of Health has developed a conceptual framework that aims to show the different levels of causality, the different hierarchies and the conditions of everyday life that have an impact on health
The first is the concept of social position which has a central role in health inequalities
The second is the socio-economic and political context with public policies, values and culture within it
The third element is power, which is very much related to the concept of social position
And the last element is simply intermediate elements such as housing, the quality of the neighborhood, stress factors or social support.
There are four fundamental determinants that affect people's mental health and that are exacerbated by globalisation. Poverty and inequality, migration, socio-cultural change and the identity.
When we talk about mental health, we have to think about ourselves and our identity, because mental health is influenced by a positive self-image and high self-esteem
Globalization and beauty
how manufacturing beauty and grooming selves are linked to the creation of moral selves and manufacturing beauties
scientific literature emphasizes the relation between physical beauty and feminity
This thesis highlights the fact that the specific looks people try to have, often serve as a form of social distinction
The research of Waters with the Mongolian women made explicit that there is a relationship between beautification and economic valorization
beauty is a social elevator in which the bodily appearance, image and style of the people is being accentuated
Globalization and social movements
By the late 19th century, the claims-making movements targeted the elite & authorities but become more and more general and intended to national governments and parliaments.
The similarities between the current & the former social movements is maybe due to the similarities in the economic context that has been created by the colonization, the Industrial Revolution and the world expansion.
That means having a global policy drive to global social movements
The society got more market-driven economy but lose in social citizenship rights
The collective action is driven by a materials-based motivation because antineoliberalist people consider that economic change had direct impact on their purchasing power.
Having Gobal Norms is the consequence of having a Global Policy
If people are fighting for the same goal, it’s easier to copy or get inspired about what people made in the past
Creolization and homogenization
according to O’connor, the process by which local cultures are transformed or absorbed by a dominant outside culture.
creolization is the idea to mix two cultures in the aim of creating new possibilities that transgress parent cultures. It happens in many fields.
There are many factors that contribute to their success. For example, it was the beginning of TV at home in the 60s, family could watch them on a screen; there was less competition than today in the industry
Today, homogenization is enforced by the concept of “time space compression”. For instance, We can watch international movies
the concept of creolization emphasizes the cultural diversity
the Beatles also represent a process of creolization. They were inspired by many types of music and artists
Moppies : They are songs sang in Afrikaans by people of color during a festival in Cape Town. Their particularity is their famous “occidental” melodies :confetti_ball:
we can tell that neither cultural globalization nor the Beatles can be seen as a product of total creolization or homogenization.
One one side, the band is viewed as a unified international culture market.
On the other side it gathered many aspects of different cultures.
Artificial intelligence
refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions
Environmentalism is described in the article such as a societal movement and: « societal efforts to reduce harms to natural environments and improve the eco-efficiency of built environments » by activism/ lobbying.
AI helps firms to improve their profit and expand their ground by optimizing data storage, extending well life and analyzing drilling report.
AI has brought facial recognition technology which is used or approved by now hundreds of countries in the world
AI has risen in wealthy states and countries. Therefore, it creates inequality between countries, states and generations.
Some corporations/states do not allow activism, and they use AI to sabotage campaigns and even kill activist thanks to facial recognition
governments have been cracking down on radical activism since the terrorist attacks in the United States in September 2001
Adaptation of Scripted Television Formats:
Factors and Mechanisms of Cultural Identity in a Global World
We know that television has become a universal media that we can find almost in every part of the world. Thanks to it we have access to information and entertainment in just second
And because this has facilitated the circulation of entertainment products, television industry creates a large amount of contents in the whole world
the emergence of a transnational television culture
television format, because it is distributed and sold globally, can be adapted by any local production team from any other part of the world as long as they buy the intellectual rights property
the aesthetic and the topics that are explored in the fiction will differ from a country to another.
today, the audience’s taste and preferences regarding television contents are measured and taken into account during the production and the adaptation of television formats
to appreciate a television content, the audience needs to recognize the cultural symbols, practices and institutions that are represented in the fiction
3 mechanisms used in the adaptation process
Realism is related to elements that are identified and that can be recognized by the audience. These elements are specific and are different in each locality
Aesthetic style refers to the cultural codes and the context that belong to the symbolic repertory (=unites the cultural identity of a society (van Keulen)). So everything that has to do with editing, camera movements, costumes, music....
“television Genre produces social cohesion and cultural belonging” (= so it refers to the sociocultural practices and television conventions in each country).
globalization has on television industry is, on one hand, beneficial for the local televisions. It gives them new opportunities because they share their practices and knowledge
because globalization increases the circulation of contents and blurs the borders between the local and global, there are also less differences between cultural identities
So it becomes more difficult to characterize local contexts, and this is endangering local televisions because this convergence tends to homogenize the styles of formats in order to create a standard style.