World of Ideas Flashcards
explores the relationship between the media, culture and globalization. The course approaches past and current challenges concerning international communication and explores and problematizes the power of media representation.
Global Media Culture
It is the process by which the world is becomingincreasingly interconnected as a result of massively increased trade and cultural exchange.
Globalization
provide an extensive transnational transmission of cultural product and they contribute to the formation of communicative networks and social structures
Media
Language allowed humans to communicate and share information.
Language became the most important tool for exploring the world and the different cultures.
Oral communication
It allowed humans to Communicate over a larger space and for a much longer duration.
It allowed the permanent codification of economic, cultural and political practice
Script
It allowed the continuous production, reproduction, and circulation of print materials.
Printing press
It includes the telegraph, and telephone, radio ,film and television.
The wide range of these media continue to open up new perspectives in economic, political, and cultural processes of globalization.
Electronics media
It allows the advertisement of products and online business transactions.
Digital media
The process with which the local market opens up to the global economy.
itcan involve the processes of product standardization and technology development centralization.
global integration
refers to the aspect of globalization that has brought industries in a number of societies as well as individuals with access to cell-phones that can be used to produce high quality videos to the fore in the entertainment and information dissemination industries.
global cultural production
process that produce change inside a group or system
Dynamics
– is dynamic and diffuse means its complex
– fluid rather than static
Culture
everything that we create and share as part of our lives in the place where we live or work.
Local culture
is a set of shared experiences, norm, symbols and ideas that unite people at global level
Global culture
creating new degrees of connectedness among economies and playing an ever-larger role in determining the fate of nations, companies, and individuals; to be unconnected is to fall behind
Global flows
The three perspectives on global cultural flows
- Cultural differentialism
- Hybridization
- Convergence
The spread and fragmentation of religion all over the world has continued through globalization, as religions have expanded from one place to another
the relation of religion to globalization
is a collection of cultural systems, beliefs systems, and world views that relate humanity to spirituality and to moral values?
RELIGION
serves as the source of globalization’s greatest resistance and as a haven for those standing in position to its ubiquitous yet often subtle power.
Religion
a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements
Religion
Religion Nowadays
- It’s no longer a set of beliefs that people arrive by reflection.
- It’s a symbolic system which carries our identity.
- It marks crucial moments in the life cycle with rituals.
- It provides powerful mechanisms for psychological and social tension.
Role of Religion Today
- It gives meaning and purpose to life
- Guidance on how to live life
- Gives people hope, faith, and belief for a better future during hard times
- Motivate people to work for positive social change.
5.Promoting morals and values in society
Common Elements Religion
Beliefs
Rituals
Organization
Sacred Objects
Symbolism
a state or habit of mind in which trust, or confidence is placed in some person or thing
BELIEFS
All religions observes ceremonial practices
RITUALS
it use to represent ideas or qualities of Religion
SYMBOLISM
refers to a collection of people, who are involved in pursuing defined objectives, without it no religion can survive.
ORGANIZATION
Every religion has some objects which they believe most important or supernatural.
SACRED OBJECTS
