The change of children playing sports to children playing videogames
Description:
Enablers:
- The advance of information and communication technology
- Parents who are also used to growing up with videogames
- The growth of online gaming and the increasing amount of gaming tournaments
- 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).