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==Enablers:==
==Enablers:==
* The advance of information and communication technology<br>
* [[Virtual Integration]]
* Telecommunication & broadcast reform in 3rd world countries<br>
* [[Media Globalization]]
* Democratization<br>
* [[The Globalization of Culture (or Cultural Globalization)]]
* The emergence of transnational media corporations<br>
* 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:==
==Inhibitors:==

Revision as of 17:17, 31 March 2005

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

Timing:

Web Resources:

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