A brief interview with a member
of your family and discuss one of the flows or scapes of globalization that has
changed or affected their lives in some way
Media includes many different elements and it affects the world in journalism,
pop culture and human social activities. Media makes the world connected intensively
and accelerates the development of mass media faster. In different countries,
media presents in various ways and the media flows the media and make it
globally. Globalization refers to a much wide and deeper human rendezvous,
particularly in culture, historical and geographical (Pieterse, 2004).
I had interviewed one of my friends, she is called Lucy and she comes
from China. She said 'no matter in China or Australia, media becomes the
important carrier that shapes in people's life'. She gave the point that people
knows about the news all over the world, and use the technology to deliver messages
and build up the interpersonal relationship. For example, when people surfing
on the Internet, they know the news from different countries rapidly, and they
also can make friends online through many kinds of social websites like
Facebook or Twitter. Media shapes the relationship more compact throughout the Internet
in a wide range in the modern society.
'There is practically no globalization without media and communication,
as many of the definitions of globalization at least indirectly acknowledge' (Rantanen,
2005, p4). Because media and communication spread the information by using
different devices like computers, mobile phones, televisions etc. All of these
carriers make the media diversified and functional and make people’s life more
interesting. The whole world actually likes a 'global village', even different
countries are far away in distance, but people feel closed because they can
know what happened right now even in other country. Media is shaping people’s behavior,
as my friend Lucy said ‘she always listen radios for daily news and watches
television programs at night’. Furthermore, mobile phones are the important tools
that we use every day, because it is the best convenient communication vehicle
to contact others despite the far distance. Media and globalization interact with each
other, while conducting the digital technologies progress grow at a rapid pace.
Reference:
Rantanen, T 2005, ‘Theorizing media and globalization’, Media and globalization 2005, Sage
Publications, London, pp. 1-18
Nederveen Pieterse, J 2004, ‘Globalization: consensus and controversies’,
Globalization and culture: global mélange, Rowan & Littlefield, Lanham,
Md., pp.7-21.
