Terms:
Dialectics-(similar to circuit media model)
Viewers Producers
Sitcoms < - > Sitcoms
Dramas < - > Dramas
- Producers change what they do and viewers change what the want
- Viewers change what they want and producers change what they do
Questions:
- What is the effect of globalization on nations and the idea of "nation"?
- What are the different form of the globalization?
- What is the future of the nation state?
- Uptopia like the global village?
- Fragmentation?
Points:
- Everyone is a migrant.
- Cultural mixing
- Once this happens what happens to identity?
- Tension between maintaining culture and integrating
- International achievements
- constant exchange of information
- Globalization in deep historical context
- contrast between older historical forms and "accelerated globalization"
- History in relation to space
- Space-how we break down geography
- East or West, countries, states, cities etc.
- Our relationship with other olaces
- Nation states are becoming less relevant because now people are talking more about ethnicity than nations states.
- Doesn't define terms
- Playing with language
Nederveen Pieterse Chapter 3
Questions:
- Who belong to a culture?
- What constitutes cultural identity?
Points:
- McDonaldization and culture convergence
- Homogenization/westernization
- Efficiency and control
- Three Theories
- Cultural Convergence
- Cultural Differentiation (clash of civilizations)
- Human mosaic (people keenly aware of differences)
- Hybridization
- Cultural Language-Surface manifestation of culture such as music, food and clothing
- Cultural Grammar-Deep into the culture itself such as the values, traditions and world views
- Cultural language and cultural grammar are directly linked together
Critiques:
- Obvious bias for hybridity
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