4 pages essay
McCarty, Philip Global Media 1 of 2 Vocabulary
Part I Media
feudalism, lords and serfs Gutenberg printing press standardization and preservation of knowledge democratization of information diversity of ideas and opinions public sphere and civil society The Enlightenment The Fourth Estate - Edmund Burke (1787) Scientific, Democratic and Industrial Revolutions wage labor, free market urbanization, population explosion second Industrial Revolution, modern and Victorian periods "free market place of ideas" - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1919)
commoditization of information literature, news, opinion, art, sports edutainment (whatever sells newspapers) sensationalism
ideology, propaganda, dehumanization censorship and framing (significance, salience and relevance) new media all mediums together interactivity one-to-many communication one-to-one communication
many-to-many communication production of media from professional to amateur
cyberculture convergence digital divide
concentration of Media Ownership communication Governance (Raboy p. 56) global public sphere (Raboy p. 65)
McCarty, Philip Global Media 2 of 2 Vocabulary
Part II Projecting Empire
colonialism, nationalism, imperialism, decolonization and postcolonial appropriation, exploitation, Orientalism, cultural imperialism, medial imperialism containment, consensus, hegemony, soft power commercialization, secularization and homogenization of media (Hallin and Mancini) differentiation and de-differentiation of media (Hallin and Mancini 177) hero, anti-hero, reversal of perspective
Part III New Media mass media representation of others (meets needs of the dominant culture) stereotype, marginalize, assimilate (homogenization) modernization, development, sustainability displacement, resettlement, exile, migration, immigration, diaspora discrimination, persecution, genocide new media, self-representation, hybrid identities (meets needs of the minority culture) endangered cultures and languages, strategic traditionalism, cultural survival resistance (to colonialism, imperialism, environmental destruction, globalization) communities, imagined community, nationalism and alternative nationalisms self-determination, autonomy, legal sovereignty human rights, indigenous rights, collective rights advocacy, alliances and networks pan-indigenous or international indigenous movements, Fourth World