Globalisation

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Friedman
Globalisation is destroying the culture of the east through Westernisation and and Americanisation due to large American firms. Globalisation has an American face.
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Fukuyama
The historical trajectory (past) of the world is in the direction of the kind of civilisation found in western capitalist liberal democracies. World conflicts will continue in the form of struggles to establish capitalism where it isn't present.
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Spybey
Views globalisation as the exchange of practices between multiple locations across the globe and not just one, even if that one is the current leading global power.
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Giddens
Globalisation has a transformative but uneven effect on all parts of the global system. Rather than destroying local cultures, it has led to a spark of localist and nationalist movements.
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Giddens
There are two important consequences of globalisation; Rise of risk consciousness - thinking in terms of risk, and detraditionalisation - the erosion of tradition aka marriage.
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Bauman
Agrees that increased uncertainity requires individuals to constantly review their identities, however he also states that the wealthy and powerful are the ones creating and benefiting from this unstable, rapidly changing context.
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Furedi
Draws on the work of Bauman and states that 'expert institutions' that aim to help us when constructing our identities are not neutral and in action we become dependent on their expert advice.
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McLuhan
Predicted a global village would occur, where one world was interconnected by an electronic nervous system, making it part of our popular culture before it actually happened.
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Carter
The use of cyber city (an online virtual community) allows people to interconnect and become friends with a variety of people. She found friends were maintained and were woven into their offline life.
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Boellstorff
The virtual online community 'second life', they can create their own identities unrelated to their real life identities. However behaviour within the game could be considered crimes in real life e.g. violence, which may cause confusion in real life.
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Castells
The world has shifted from industrialism to post-industrialism to informationalism, the determining technology of our age is not mechanical but information based. This has brought about a whole new way in which economic activity is conducted.
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Boyle
Previously separate forms of media can now be accessed through one device (media convergence). These patterns of convergence have been adopted to promote capitalist ideals such as the pursuit of profit, as they can advertise on a range of platforms.
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The social network
Relationships can be impacted from the use of social networks such as posting comments about others. It can be used in a deviant way such as hacking and information posted cannot be removed.
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Ellison
Individuals can adopt multiple online personalities and online activities often leave visible traces which can be captured, tracked, packaged and shared. These choices tell us lot about individuals and attitudes in wider society.
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The Ofcom Report
83% of adults go online, 62% of UK adults use a smartphone, 66% of online adults have a social network profile, privacy, security attitudes and behaviour vary considerably by age group.
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Garside
The younger generation have developed fundamentally different communication habits and never experienced the 'digital dark age' of dial up internet etc. It has created a generation of 'digital natives' who grew up with modern technology.
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Boyle
Each successive generation sees a greater use of and reliance on digital communication. He argues that this has lead to a digital generation divide between the old, who are less likely to use new technologies, and young, who are reliant on it.
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Boyle P2
The reasons for this digital divide in age, is because of... young people are more equipped to develop their skills and want to create their adult identities and digital technologies can assist this. It also helps with communicating with peers.
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Palmer
Parents cope with disciplining and entertaining their children with digital technology such as Ipads, TV shows etc. This is known as toxic parenting.
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Postman
The internet leads to children being exposed to adult content at an early age.
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Berry
Researched older users of the internet and found that when explaining their reasons for not accessing the internet is due to lack of skills and interest. However some websites are specifically designed for older users e.g. senior cupid.
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Mertens and D'Haenens
Studied the digital divide in Brussels and found a clear link between class and internet usage, lower social classes used the internet less, they also used the internet differently, the lower classes for entertainment and middle to boost knowledge.
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The historical trajectory (past) of the world is in the direction of the kind of civilisation found in western capitalist liberal democracies. World conflicts will continue in the form of struggles to establish capitalism where it isn't present.

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Fukuyama

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Views globalisation as the exchange of practices between multiple locations across the globe and not just one, even if that one is the current leading global power.

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Globalisation has a transformative but uneven effect on all parts of the global system. Rather than destroying local cultures, it has led to a spark of localist and nationalist movements.

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There are two important consequences of globalisation; Rise of risk consciousness - thinking in terms of risk, and detraditionalisation - the erosion of tradition aka marriage.

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