Media and Globalization

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18945166
AutoresJohn Sinclair (0000-0002-8615-7505, The University of Melbourne, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Fecha de publicación2015-10-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoOTHER
RevistaThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL)
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosm063.pub2
OpenAlexW3111719569
ISBN9781405165518
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas12

While in everyday language “globalization” usually refers to economic and political integration on a world scale, it also has a crucial cultural dimension in which the media have a central role. Indeed, in sociology and other disciplines that focus on the media, the concept of globalization has had to be adopted so as to take account of a new reality in which global institutions, especially the media, impact upon the structures and processes of the nation‐state, including its national culture. In that sense, media globalization is about how most national media systems have become more internationalized, becoming more open to outside influences, both in their content and in their ownership and control. This is a cultural phenomenon, one with implications for our contemporary sense of identity, but it is closely linked also to the economic and political factors driving globalization, notably the deregulation of national markets and the liberalization of trade and investment, which in turn facilitate the inroads of global corporations

Cultural globalization · Deregulation · Economic globalization · Economic system · Economics · Globalization · Liberalization · Market economy · National identity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Diverse academic and cultural studies · Law