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Here is a template to upload driving forces. 
==Description:==
==Description:==
Media globalization is one of the most prominent factor that shapes the global world. When the Bali bomb exploded in Indonesia, less than five minutes people could see the news on TV or internet. Media has a significant role to spread the news all over the world. With its wide-coverage network, media could reach almost any place in the world to give us information which has become our daily consumption.
Now that Microsoft even distributes his software in an open source form, is seems that open source has become a serious competitor of the traditional dominating closed source. In the past couple of years the usage of open source software increased especially regarding web servers. Websites like hotscripts.com provide several of applications for business as well as for personal usage.
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We could not imagine how we can live without CNN, BBC, MTV, or Hollywood movies for instance. Those media has been there to accompany us wherever we go. They give us information about recent Dowjones market index, interest rates, oil price, top 40 songs, Box office movies, etc. They also give us information about new products, sales, vacation packages through their advertising which always attracts us to watch and listen. Those media somehow has also changed the way we perceive the world around us. They has changed our habits, hobbies, preferences, and even cultures that we might never realize. They introduce new ways of thinking; thinking about the world and all processes on it. They shape our oppinions to like something that might have seemed unfavorable or the other way around. They introduce the so called pop cultures to people in different regions as if those cultures are the most appropriate to adopt to be considered part of the global civilization.
The cost of closed source software plays a very important role in the usage of open source software in stead of closed source software. Now that the world is getting smaller and smaller each day through the internet, mobile phones and other communication devices, the supply and popularity of web logs, mail clients and fora is increasing. People wants to stay in touch and know what is happening 24/7 if possible. The owners of these web logs, mail clients and for a mostly are not financial capable to run expensive web servers at their homes. So the alternative is quite obvious; using open source software. With the improvement that are made regarding variety and stability, open source has become a serious competitor of the traditional dominating closed source software.  
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CNN, BBC, MTV, Hollywood movies and many others are some agents of this media globalization. They convey information, news, advertising, and even culture from one country to another. They link and connect all part of the world with their media infrastructure; and in this respect media globalization has become an important factor that might explain the future of the 'global village'.
PHP, Apache, Linux are just a few of the most popular usage of open source nowadays. While the supply of not-so-alternative-anymore-software is growing and improving compared with the traditional software, so is the demand.


==Enablers:==
==Enablers:==
* The advance of information and communication technology<br>
* Cost of software development<br>
* Telecomunication & broadcast reform in 3rd world countries<br>
* Contracts with companies like Microsoft<br>
* Democratization<br>
* The emergence of transnational media corporations<br>


==Inhibitors:==
==Inhibitors:==
* Regulations from local government
* Open source developments
* Culture clashes
* Anti-trust lawsuits against standard software suppliers.  
* Revitalization of local cultures i.e. Bolywood movies in India
* Quite high prices for standard software
* Competition with local media


==Paradigms:==
==Paradigms:==
* Pop cultures
Developments like these will decrease the domination of companies like Microsoft
* Press freedom


==Experts:==
==Experts:==
* Marshal McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
* Software developers
* Nancy Morris, Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters
* Business ICT managers
* Monroe E. Price, Media and Sovereignty


==Timing:==
==Timing:==
The notion of the effects of media globalization emerged in 1960s - 1980s when NWICO (New World Information and Communication) literature critized the presence of foreign media, especially from the United States, as a threat to cultural autonomy in the developing world (Dorfman and Mattelart 1972; International Commission for the Study of Communication Problem).
No information is needed to understand this driving force.


==Web Resources:==
==Web Resources:==
* http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-74-342/people/mcluhan/

Revision as of 21:55, 16 March 2005

Description:

Now that Microsoft even distributes his software in an open source form, is seems that open source has become a serious competitor of the traditional dominating closed source. In the past couple of years the usage of open source software increased especially regarding web servers. Websites like hotscripts.com provide several of applications for business as well as for personal usage.

The cost of closed source software plays a very important role in the usage of open source software in stead of closed source software. Now that the world is getting smaller and smaller each day through the internet, mobile phones and other communication devices, the supply and popularity of web logs, mail clients and fora is increasing. People wants to stay in touch and know what is happening 24/7 if possible. The owners of these web logs, mail clients and for a mostly are not financial capable to run expensive web servers at their homes. So the alternative is quite obvious; using open source software. With the improvement that are made regarding variety and stability, open source has become a serious competitor of the traditional dominating closed source software.

PHP, Apache, Linux are just a few of the most popular usage of open source nowadays. While the supply of not-so-alternative-anymore-software is growing and improving compared with the traditional software, so is the demand.

Enablers:

  • Cost of software development
  • Contracts with companies like Microsoft

Inhibitors:

  • Open source developments
  • Anti-trust lawsuits against standard software suppliers.
  • Quite high prices for standard software

Paradigms:

Developments like these will decrease the domination of companies like Microsoft

Experts:

  • Software developers
  • Business ICT managers

Timing:

No information is needed to understand this driving force.

Web Resources:

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