Increasing Mobility

Enablers:

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

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

Web Resources:

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