The Global Village

• In what ways do you think globalisation of media might be responsable for imposing Western or American values and lifestyle countries across the world?

• What effects d you think this might have on local culture and identity?

Popular Culture

 

• Mass culture, low culture or folk culture.
• Mass-produced, commercialised prducts, short-lived and have no artistic value.
• Popular culture is everyday culture aimed at everybody: simple, undemanding, easy-to-understand, entertaining.
• Red top tabloid newsapers; TV films; TV drama; pop music; thrillers and cheap paperback books.
• Popular culture products demand little critical thought analysis or dscussion and do not challenge domiant cultural ideals.
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High Culture

 

• The oposite of popular culture.
• someting special to be treated differently and revered.
• Something art of a country heritage which is worth preserving.
• Mainly aimed at middle and upper class people.
• High quality news programmes, documentaries, classical music, jazz, literature by selected autos ad great works of art.
 
Mass Culture Theory
 
New media has led to merge of popular ad high culture.
New media make high culture to be trasprted to people so there is no need to access ccert halls, art galeries or theatres.
High culture products are increasingly being tured into poular culture products and sold e.g. Va Gogs paitings on aprons, mugs, laying cards etc.
 

Pluralist & Postmodern Views on Mass Culture Theory
 
• Tomlinson (1999); Reception Theory
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Theories, texts and industry knowledge

Definitions

 

Primary - Employment involving extracting natural resouces from the earth. Such as Fisherman, Miner and Farmer.

Secondary - Employment that involves manufacturing raw materials into something else. Such as making cotten into a shirt, carpenters and builders.

Tertiary - Employment that involves the worker providing a service. Such as hotel chamber maid, doctor and train driver.

Quatenary - employment that involves using high technology and innovation. Such as geneticist, software design and grpahic designer.

 

 

Clarke Fisher model for employment?

 

Pre-industrial Stage –the LDC’s have high amounts of primary industries due to the fact that there is a lack of education and they are mainly subsistence farmers. There are very few jobs in the tertiary and manufacturing sectors, due to lack of money to set up these factories or build them.

Industrial Stage – As time passes, manufacturing increases, New factories spring up in many locations. So the secondary sector grows in importance. The tertiary sector also grows  (but not as fast) The primary sector continues to decline in this period as the country industrialises.

 

Post-industrial Stage - In this stage the tertiary sector become most important. Secondary sector tends to die away. As more people start to live in towns, there is a growing demand for various services - from health and education to transport and finance. Quaternary jobs begin to form too as the country becomes wealthier.

What impact can Global Media have on identity?

 

It making countries follow the dominent countries styles and interests, such as america and England, fashion, music and film are the a few of the biggest worlwide trends.

 

How do emplyment sectors change and develop with globalisation?

 

Countries such as the UK and USA have more jobs in diffrent sectors whereas mostly LEDC's have more jobs but in the same sectors, mostly Primary and Secondary.

 

How does the development of emplymen sectors impact on personal identity?

 

LEDC's have restrained identities because their only so many job sectors they can go into whereas MEDC's have many job oppurtunties.

 

What Impact does globalisation have on the structure of jobs in MEDC and LEDCs?

 

In MEDCs there are Primary, sceondary, teriary and quaternary jobs whereas in LEDCs there a re much limit usually Primary and Secondary and for a much lower wage and quilaity of work place.

 

My family employment history

 

Mother - Shop assistant

Father - U.S Army

Brother - Plastering

Grandmother - Nurse

Grandfather - Manual Labour

 

My family have worked in varied jobs but mostly secondary and tertiary, I think if I went further back I would see more Primary and Secondary.

 

USA - MEDC (Service employment)

 

Brazil - NIC (Factory employment)


 

Nepal - LEDC (farming employment)

 

 

A= USA

B= NEPAL

C=BAZIL

• Why do MEDC's have more tertiary employment?

More economically developed countries have more tertiay employment because there are more service jobs

• Why do LEDC's have more primary employment?

 

 

 

 



How film distrubution has changed

Towards the end of 2005, the UK distribution and exhibition sectors were starting to move towards digital distribution and exhibition. For exhibitors, digital projection, especially when married to the increasing use digital formats in production, can now replicate - if not surpass - the image quality of conventional 35mm cinema presentation. And, of course, digital sound systems have been used in cinemas for some time.

 

In distribution terms, the advantages of digital technology are even clearer, though perhaps longer term. Digital technology is seen to offer a more cost effective and logistics-light alternative to the tried and trusted, but unwieldy model of 35mm print distribution described above. It will, eventually, be cheaper and much less stressful to send films as computer files to cinemas across the UK, than to transport 20-25kg tins of film in the back of a van.

 

Digital distribution and exhibition on a large scale has started to appear in certain parts of the world, notably China and Brazil, where conventional logistics cannot, for one reason or another, efficiently bring together supply and demand. In the UK, digital technology has been embraced by the non-theatrical sector, in film societies and schools, where the use of DVD and mid-range digital projection has replaced 16mm.

 

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/distribution/distribution7.html

 

For most of the 80s and 90s, NBC dominated US television: Miami Vice, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends. The network earned its ratings by pushing boundaries – Miami Vice stylised the police drama, while Hill Street Blues gave it gritty realism. These shows also brought in big money – NBC was once one of the most profitable divisions of General Electric. But when the parent company

NBC isn't the only major media business that has fallen on hard times. EMI, home of the Beatles and Pink Floyd, has trimmed its roster and cut thousands of jobs. The Washington Post, which set a high-water mark for US journalism with its Watergate reporting, has reduced its newsroom staff, closed its national bureaux, and declared: "We are not a national news organisation of record." MGM, with its roaring lion logo, was recently acquired for less than half its 2005 value.

 

All of these companies faced the same problem: they weren't collecting enough of the revenue being generated by their work. The public hasn't lost its appetite for television, journalism or film; shows, articles and movies reach more consumers than ever online. The problem is that, although the internet

 has expanded the audience for media, it has all but destroyed the market for it.

 

Over the past decade, much of the value created by music, films, and newspapers has benefited other companies – pirates and respected technology firms alike. The Pirate Bay website made money by illegally offering major-label albums, even as music sales declined to less than half of what they were 10 years ago. YouTube used clips from shows such as NBC's Saturday Night Live to build a business that Google bought for $1.65bn. And the Huffington Post became one of the most popular news sites online largely by rewriting newspaper articles. This isn't the inevitable result of technology. Traditionally, the companies that invested in music and film also controlled their distribution – EMI, for example, owned recording studios, pressing plants, and the infrastructure that delivered CDs to stores. Piracy was always a nuisance, but never a serious threat. The same was true of other media businesses: the easiest place to get a newspaper story was from a newspaper.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/14/robert-levine-digital-free-ride

 

 

 

How film distubution has changed - 2000's, 2010's

Now you see me

 

2013

Budget

$75,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend

$29,254,674 (USA) (2 June 2013) (2,925 Screens)

 

 

 

Online Media

Institution And Audiences from Thomas Griffiths

Web 2.0

The Role Of Global Instituations

 

 

The World Trade Organization (WTO) deals with the rules of trade between countries. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as freely as possible. They are often called in to deal with disputes between countries that have previously made trade agreements. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business without exploitation.

International monetary fund (IMF) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organisation of 188 countries, working to raise global monetary (money) cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world. It does this through keeping track of the global economy and the member countries, lending to countries with payment difficulties and giving practical help to members.

Transnational corporations (TNC) A company with its headquarters in one country owns factories in one or more other countries and sells its products globally. The main priorities of a TNC are profit driven. They are always looking for the highest profit margins. This often means their factories are in LEDC’s to make the most of low wages and often have headquarters in MEDC’s.

World Bank The World Bank is a financial institution which provides loans to developing countries for capital programs (money making). Its official goal is the reduction of poverty, with all its decisions being guided through a commitment to the promotion of foreign investment and international trade, as well as the facilitation of capital investment.

United Nations Through UN efforts, governments have concluded many multilateral agreements that make the world a safer, healthier place with greater opportunity and justice for all of us. This comprehensive body of international law, including human rights law, is one of the UN's great achievements. It has close links with UNESCO, WHO, UNICEF, FAO.

 

1. How is the world more interconnected? The world is more inteconnected by he use of internet, travel and trade.
2. What has created a 'global village'? the comunications and how much they have strengthened over the years and also search enginges such as google.
3. What has happened to transport to help globalisation? It has developed more and become moe interconnected.
4. How does it help countries? It links them.
5. Who benefits the most from TNC's? MEDC

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