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The Role of Communications For Globalization and Cosmopolitansim

The document discusses the role of communications in globalization and cosmopolitanism. It defines globalization as the interconnectedness and interdependencies between different parts of the world. From a communications perspective, globalization is possible due to the ability to communicate on a global scale. The document then traces the history of globalized communication, including the telegraph in the 1830s, the emergence of global news networks in the 19th century, and the development of radio frequencies. It also discusses different dimensions of globalization, such as cultural, social, political and economic, and how they all depend on global communication infrastructure.

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The Role of Communications For Globalization and Cosmopolitansim

The document discusses the role of communications in globalization and cosmopolitanism. It defines globalization as the interconnectedness and interdependencies between different parts of the world. From a communications perspective, globalization is possible due to the ability to communicate on a global scale. The document then traces the history of globalized communication, including the telegraph in the 1830s, the emergence of global news networks in the 19th century, and the development of radio frequencies. It also discusses different dimensions of globalization, such as cultural, social, political and economic, and how they all depend on global communication infrastructure.

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The Role of Communications for

Globalization and
Cosmopolitansim
2. Globalization and Communication
Defining Globalization
The uprooting of human activities – political,
cultural, economic, social

or:
interconnectedness -> interdependencies of
many different parts in the world.

From a communication studies perspective:


Why globalization? – because it is possible to
communicate on a global scale

”Only in the past couple of centuries, as every


human community has gradually been
drawn into a single web of trade and a
global network of information, have we
come to a point where each of us can
realistically imagine contacting any other of
our six billion conspecifics and sending that
person something worth having: a radio, an
antibiotic, a good idea.”

(Appiah, 2006: x)
Tracing the History of the
Globalization of Communication
 Thompson, J. (1995). Media and Modernity – ch. 5
’The Globalization of Communication’

Main points:

- Today communication is increasingly global

- This promotes a ’reordering’ of time and space

- This in turn, promotes global interconnections


interdependencies = globalization.

- Globalization is a progress, not an end state. Started


mainly with three processes during the 19th century:
Tracing the History of the
Globalization of Communication
1.) 1830’s. The telegraph – electric communication via
transatlantic underwater cables. No more messengers.
1843 – Washington and Baltimore connected
1865 – Britain and India connected
1870s – Europe linked to large parts of the world
1924 – King George V sends a message to himself that
circulated the globe in 80 seconds

2.) 19th century. Emergence of global news networks. Significant in


three ways
1.) News over large territories
2.) Global in scope
3.) Reached big audiences

3.) Electro-magnetic waves. The emergence of organziations with


the mission to dissiminate radio frequencies.
Different globalization[s]
– The dimensions of globaliation

 Cultural: ’Global images’, global audiences, value-spreading,


’neo-imperialism’/’media imperialism’. World culture.

 Social: Global social relations, mobility, tourism, sense global of


community.

 Political: Supra-national organizations: UN, WTO etc. Supra-


national governance: ’world-police’, Obama phenomenon,
regionalization: EU. Cosmopolitansim

 Economic: Common discourse. Trade links, instant money


transaction - global business. Global exploitation of labour.

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Common thread: they all depend on global communication


infrastructure.
Conceptualizing globalization

 Appadurai, A. (1996). ’Scapes’ that capture the


globalization of all human activity: ethnoscapes,
financescapes, mediascapes, technospaces etc.

 Castells, M. (1996). In globalization – new logic of


space: from ’space of place’ to ’space of flows’

’Flows’ (= purposeful, repetivite, programmable


sequences of exchange and interaction between
physically disjointed positions)
Flows are ”expressions of processes dominating our
economic, political and symbolic life.” (p. 442).
How do we notice globalization
in everyday life?
Break.
3.) Expressions of Globalization

 How is the organization of our world different


now (in the midst of the process of globalization)
compared to ’before’?
’Expression 1’: The Rise of Global
Cities
Mainly located and considered within the
economy-dimension of globalization

According to Castells’ ’trilogy’, in globalization


cities have become increasinlgy important
nodes for all human activity.

Globalization demands infrastructural nodes


Thank you!

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