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Global Implications of Media and Technology

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&NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Increasing technology and media has always been driven the main source of globalization&period; In the book of Thomas Friedman&comma; &lpar;2005&rpar;&comma; it has been identified that there are multiple ways&comma; through which the technology has been flattened&comma; the world and also contribute in the global economy&period; This posits about the core concept of economics&comma; which changed the high speed of internet and personal computing&period; The access of these technological shifts allowed the corporations of core-nation for recruiting workers in Indian or Chinese call centers&period; By using such examples&comma; such as Midwestern United State lady&comma; who operates the home based business through Bangalore’s Call centers&comma; for this Friedman had warned about the order of the new world&comma; and the existence of technology&comma; whether the core-nation businesses or companies are ready&comma; or still exploring&period; It is also more like to keep the order of the economic key-roles across the globe&comma; the countries does not pay attention towards preparing themselves and employees in this modern and dynamic competitive world &lpar;Friedman&comma; 2005&rpar;&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">However&comma; it is worth observing that the Friedman was an economist&comma; rather than a sociologist&period; His all work greatly focused on the risks and economic gains in this new and orderly entailing world&period; This article is going to discuss the technological globalization and media globalization more closely&comma; to pay more attention to the sociological perspectives&period; Media globalization is all about integrating the world with different media with the help of cross cultural ideas and exchange of perceptions&comma; whereas the technological globalization deals with the development of the cross cultures and technological exchange &lpar;Bagdikian&comma; 2004&rpar;&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Media Globalization<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">It has been suggested by the Lyons&comma; &lpar;2005&rpar;&comma; that the multinational corporations and organizations are major and primary vehicles of the media globalization&period; Moreover&comma; these corporations and firms also control the global content of mass-media and its distributions&period; It has been a fact&comma; that when looking and taking care of who is controlling the media outlets&comma; which are some of the independent source or new source&comma; or the conglomerated ones&comma; which are newly developed&period; Around 1500 newspapers&comma; 6000 magazines&comma; 2600 publishers and equal value of the television stations along with 10&comma;000 radio-outlets are offered by United States &lpar;Bagdikian&comma; 2004&rpar;&period; <br &sol;>&NewLine;On its surface&comma; there is still the endless opportunity of finding the diverse and different media outlets&period; Still the numbers are quite misleading&period; The media consolidation considered to be in process&comma; where the fewer owners only control the major number of media outlets&period; The ideological and cultural bias are not only about media globalization risks&period; Furthermore&comma; the cultural imperialism and its associated risks along with some loss of the local culture&comma; and other issues come with some advantages of more integrated world&period; There is a risk which is potential for the censoring by the national governments&comma; which let-in only information&comma; data and media which they feel&comma; must be served their messages as the occurring of China&period; In addition to this&comma; the core nations like United States&comma; and United Kingdom risks the consumption of the international media through the criminals for circumvent the local laws and rules against the socially dangerous and deviant behaviors&comma; like gambling&comma; sex trade and child pornography&period; International or offshore websites&comma; assist the countries and their citizens to seek the illicit and illegal information&comma; they required from the 24 hours online sites&comma; which do not need any age proof&period; Such examples clearly illustrate the risks of the society of unfettered flow of information &lpar;McLuhan and Marshall&comma; 1964&rpar;&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Technological Globalization<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The technological globalization has been speeded up in the greater part of the world with the help of technological diffusion&period; The technological spread has been observed across the borders&period; In previous two decades&comma; rapid development and improvement has been seen in the spread of the technology for semi-peripheral and peripheral nations&comma; and both such benefits are considered as ongoing challenges and issues of such diffusion&period; Generally&comma; there has been reports found&comma; which discuss the economic growths and technological advancement or progress rates which were linked&comma; and thus&comma; the rise in the technological progress improves the conditions of several people lives who were living in the poverty&period; It has been recognized that the low-tech and rural products like corns could gain benefits from the new technological innovation and conversely&comma; that technologies such as mobile banking could aid the rural existence which consist of the low-tech vending in market&period; Furthermore&comma; the technological advancement in the areas like the mobile phones could lead the competition&comma; concurrent improvements and lowered prices in related fields like information sharing and mobile banking &lpar;Bagdikian&comma; 2004&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">However&comma; there are same patterns in the social inequality&comma; which create the digital divide within the semi-peripheral and peripheral nations&period; While the technological growth and its usage among different countries has been risen dramatically over several decades&period; The technological spread and advancement in less-developed countries and developing countries are relatively slower&comma; because far fewer individuals have skills and training for taking the advantages and benefits of the new technologies and access it alone&period; The technological access are tends to be more clustered around the urban areas&comma; and also leaves the vast swaths&period; Whereas the information technology diffusion has much potential in resolving various social problems across the globe&comma; it is more like the population in the affected areas through the digital divide&period; For instance&comma; the technology used for purifying the water can save several lives&comma; but still the villager do not have access of purifying the water or need for doing so&comma; because of technological access and development&comma; as they lack in funds for purchasing it&comma; and the comfort level of technological for introducing it as the solution &lpar;McLuhan and Marshall&comma; 1964&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">It has been concluded that technological helps in driving the globalization&comma; but still what it means is that it could hard for the decipher&period; Whereas&comma; there are some economists&comma; who see the technological advancement and improvements&comma; which helps in leading towards more playing field and areas&comma; where anywhere and anyone could be the global contender&comma; and the reality is considered as the opportunity&comma; which still clusters in the geographically the advantaged areas&period; Hence&comma; the technological diffusion which has led the spread more technology across the borders in the semi-peripheral and peripheral nations&period; However&comma; the true technological implication global equality is very long way-off&period; &NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"left">References<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"left">Bagdikian&comma; B&period;&comma; 2004&period; The new media monopoly &lpar;Rev&period; ed&period;&rpar;&period; Boston&comma; MA&colon; Beacon&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Friedman&comma; T&period;L&period;&comma; 2005&period; The world is flat&colon; A brief history of the twenty-first century&period; Macmillan&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;McLuhan&comma; Marshall&period; 1964&period; Understanding Media&colon; The Extensions of Man&period; New York&colon; McGraw-Hill&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;--CusAds0-->&NewLine;<div style&equals;"font-size&colon; 0px&semi; height&colon; 0px&semi; line-height&colon; 0px&semi; margin&colon; 0&semi; padding&colon; 0&semi; clear&colon; both&semi;"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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