Stop for a second to imagine a world without
Globalisation. Look around you and notice the all the foreign things you have taken
for granted all your life. Consider the music you listen to, the food you
consume, the films and TV show you view, the car you drive, the books you read,
the people in you work with, hopefully now you’re starting to see the effect of
globalisation. As you can tell there is a lot to talk about in relation to
globalisation and for this reason I’m choosing to just focus in on one topic of
it. That is the topic of Information
Flows.
“The boom in information and communications
technologies (ICT) forms part of the infrastructure of globalization in
finance, capital mobility and export-oriented business activity, transnational
communication, migration, travel, and civil society interactions” (Pieterse
2004, p9). The information flow refers to the way information is distributed
instantaneously and with never ending access and how we are able to exchange information
where ever whenever we want. Every time I want to find something out I always
go straight to Google and search for it. I did this the other night when I didn’t
know how long I needed to heat my pasta for; its about 10 minutes for those of
you who don’t know. Another way I could’ve settled this problem the other night
would’ve been to use my mobile phone to call and ask a friend. As you can see
the information flows relate to how technology has become essential to how we
gain and exchange information.
References:
Nederveen Pieterse, J 2004, ‘Globalization: consensus and controversies’, Globalization
and culture: global melange, Rowan & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., pp.7-21
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I found this to be relate-able, engaging, humorous, and factual. It clearly explains the topic and uses everyday life examples to help show.
Well done.
This entry was probably the most engaging of all posts I've read so far. I liked how you showed globalisation and media's permeation throughout our lives. The pasta example is an amusing and relevant example of our generation's simultaneous ignorance and wisdom. We may not have a lot of practical knowledge (yet) but we know how to find it.
ReplyDeleteYou've shown how essential all this technology is to Generation Y, but I wonder at the drawbacks such a dependance could have... Also a brief mention of the generally one-way flow of information would have been interesting.
Great post!