The change of children playing sports to children playing videogames

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Description:

Enablers:

  • The advance of information and communication technology
  • Telecomunication & broadcast reform in 3rd world countries
  • Democratization
  • The emergence of transnational media corporations

Inhibitors:

  • Regulations from local government
  • Culture clashes
  • Revitalization of local cultures i.e. Bolywood 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

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).

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