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Globalisation and media

Multi national corporations have become the dominant force, more powerful than countries.

Globalisation: growth to a global or worldwide scale; "the globalisation of the communication industry".

The access to worldwide communication has made us more globalised.

All workers contribute to a larger machine. 

Mcluhan was writing about the social effects of the mass media before the introduction of the internet:

We are becoming more connected as a world. This connection should make us closer and more aware of our responsibilities to each other

The state we have is a capitalist western world trying to take over, this brings a variety of resistance:

Because business 

Does globalization make people around the world more alike or more different?

Key point from these writers:

Imperialism isn't bought by war, it is done by forcing politics and culture upon others so that they become like you.

One of the illusions people have is that somehow the mass media is a giant free market where independent companies are competing with each other, When in reality they are all owned by bigger corporation.

Compamnies owned by Time-Warner:

Culture is made in the west and then repackaged and sold all around the world. 

IT becomes popular because everyone wants to be more like the culture they are consuming. The biggest selling product in India last year was skin whitening cream because the buyers wanted to appear more western and fit in more with the culture they consume.

Chomsky knew that the news is fabricated 'facts' that push the interests of the wealthy,

Murdoch once boasted that The Sun has the power to determine the result of elections, which causes politicians to pander to Murdoch in order for the media to portray them in a good light.

Advertisers dominate the media and take precedence over the content:

Global climate coalition: manufactured propaganda stories saying that global warming wasn't happening- the people that started it was texaco, exxon and ford.

By demonising others it can portray the interests of ourselves as just:

An Inconveniant truth:

Al Gore suggests that to stop global catastrophe we need to buy more things to live greener which is a very Capitalist solution. 

In comparison:

Politicians wont stamp down on emissions because it will lower profits for the big corporations which will cause them to lose support from them big corporations.

Progress Crit Questions

Has the potential product range been fully exploited?
Has the context of delivery been considered?
Has the audience or gender been considered?
How much information is needed?
Clarity of Presentation/ orginisation?

Censorship & Truth

The use of digital software and photo manipulation makes knowing what is real and what has been fabricated difficult to tell apart.

Should images be altered to enhance drama or fabricate meaning? or should we be shown the unedited truth?

'Small Wars documents a different kind of war, is this more fine art than documentary?

Documenting war in a different light, is this making art out of conflict, that doesn't represent the universal truth.

Censor: a person authorised to examine films etc. in order to ban or cut anything that is obscene or objectifiable.

Overly sexualised advertisement for chocolate:

Controversial ad for a fragrance:

Jermaine Greer argues that you can go into the national gallery and see similar content

Controversy as the nude female in this photo is only 15 (1980)

This poses the question of where 'art' can be used to justify controversial material:

Means of defining wether or not can be accepted as serious artistic material:

Sally Mann is a photographer who takes pictures of her children, content that could be questioned as controversial:

Displays nudity of children, argument for this is that  every parent will own similar pictures of their own kids, but is it acceptable to publish these?

Displayed in the Saatchi Gallery is 2001:

The way the press reported on the event:

Is this an indecent picture or just kids in a bath?

The photographer responds:

These images where removed from the exhibition