Increasing Mobility
Description:
The dictionary has a explanation of the word Mobile
- Mobile
- Capable of moving or of being moved readily from place to place.
- Tending to travel and relocate frequently.
Mobility means ' The quality or state of being mobile '.
The world's increasing mobility take its literal meaning: People are more and more capable of and ready for moving from one place to another, both temperarily and permantantly.
Enablers:
- Virtual Integration
- Media Globalization
- The Globalization of Culture (or Cultural Globalization)
- The advances of information and communication technology, especially wireless Technolgy, which free people from restraints of their location, you can communicate anywhere anyway.
- The advances in ground and air transportation. It allows people to travel around the world with safty, comfort and speed.
- Increasing international Cooperation, which requires people to travel around the world for cooperated projects/researches.
Inhibitors:
- Regulations from local government
- Culture clashes
- Revitalization of local cultures such as Bollywood movies in India
- Competition with local media
Paradigms:
- Pop cultures
- Press freedom
Experts:
- Marshal McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
- Nancy Morris, Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters
- Monroe E. Price, Media and Sovereignty