Blog #7
Globalization/ Localization
I find an incongruity and unfairness to the fact that globalization and localization can work hand in hand. Over all I am not a fan of globalization. I don’t like chain restaurants and I don’t like franchised stores. I feel that while it is sometimes nice to drive to any nationally franchise restaurant anywhere and get the same thing it is mostly detrimental to society. Seem like a strong statement? Allow me to plead my case. At the risk of sounding like an hemp wearing hippy, local is so much better. A local grocery store, which provides food grown as locally as possible support a stable market and provide for each community to have a feel and character of its own. Why should we all have anything we desire anytime of the year? That ridiculous. Thinking of this in terms of media, the same tithing applies. Local music contributes to a more well developed culture in the area in which it is supported.
When applying these thoughts to the localization of a globalized product, localization takes on an almost sinister tone. As though it’s masking what it really there. The same crap everyone else has. Yes china should be allowed information on other cultures. But can’t that come from a local company. I realize this may be a comical pipe dream in relation to china. But as is stated in the conclusion of the article, “It is unrealistic to assume that any nation-state can maintain itself as a fortress against these new and accelerated global capital flows.”(pg84) But when I go to china I want to visit CHINA not America 2.0. The cultural imperialism that is a result of globalized media conglomerates seems to detract ever so incrementally from the individuality of the country it expands to.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Andrews Post #6
Blog #6-
2. How can you link the "Arab media lagging behind" article to our guest presentation on Lebanon? Try to find at least one obvious connection.
The thing that stood put to me most during the presentation over Lebanon was the dichotomy that existed between a Ridgeley patriarchic society and the fact that Lebanon is has a reputation that one can get what ever one wants whenever one wants, a Las Vegas of the east. I find found the video of the father pleading his daughter not to work shocking, not because it is sexist but because of the wild inconsistencies that abound in the “logic” of the song. His concern for her being respected and honored is paramount yet one could easily claim his placating her as disrespectful and dishonorable, given her intelligence and education.
In rather a similar fashion one can see the dissonance between Arab media and culture. Communications cannot be restricted with out restricting growth of those media. This is mentioned in the article.
“They provide their media with the latest technology and machinery and pay their staff well. But none of that is related to political reform or democratic change”. (pg23) In this way we see the even though there monetary support propelling media and technological development forward there has also been Traditional politics and culture stagnating the growth.
2. How can you link the "Arab media lagging behind" article to our guest presentation on Lebanon? Try to find at least one obvious connection.
The thing that stood put to me most during the presentation over Lebanon was the dichotomy that existed between a Ridgeley patriarchic society and the fact that Lebanon is has a reputation that one can get what ever one wants whenever one wants, a Las Vegas of the east. I find found the video of the father pleading his daughter not to work shocking, not because it is sexist but because of the wild inconsistencies that abound in the “logic” of the song. His concern for her being respected and honored is paramount yet one could easily claim his placating her as disrespectful and dishonorable, given her intelligence and education.
In rather a similar fashion one can see the dissonance between Arab media and culture. Communications cannot be restricted with out restricting growth of those media. This is mentioned in the article.
“They provide their media with the latest technology and machinery and pay their staff well. But none of that is related to political reform or democratic change”. (pg23) In this way we see the even though there monetary support propelling media and technological development forward there has also been Traditional politics and culture stagnating the growth.
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