Globalization and Its Effect On Communication
Globalization and Its Effect On Communication
Globalization and Its Effect On Communication
Technologies
Have immensely facilitated globalization
People are no longer strangers to events outside of
their own country
Mansbach and Rhodes (2013) Exposure to various political, economic, and social
Globalization involves proliferating connections systems through global news, current events, and
among societies and peoples, growing porosity of other media publicities have considerably educated
national frontiers, proliferation of transnational people
processes, and growing importance of authoritative On a micro level, impacting individual’s views towards
actors other than national governments, such as one’s society
transnational corporations, social networks, and On a macro level, influencing a nation’s perspective
international organizations. towards its governance, economic trading,
What others think of Globalization environmental care activities, social dealings, health
Convergence of cultures hence the termination of activities, and education system
diversity of cultures With communication technologies (smart phones,
May cause changes in a nation but does not tablets, computers) nations have become more fluid
necessarily leads to losing its identity in their interactions (video chats, phone
Phenomenon that leads to “deterritorialization” conversation) allowing instantaneous feedback and
What are some of the drivers of globalization? negotiations.
Colonization
Diaspora How does globalization affect communication?
Technologies With globalization, a need for common language to
achieve international intelligibility
Colonization English is the universal language and learned by many
Marked the beginning of globalization due to globalization
Chinese, Spaniards, Americans, Japanese have
introduced their cultures (language, food, clothing, Local and Global Communication in a Multicultural
beliefs, values, education, etc.) Setting
Other Asian countries have their share of stories Culture is a learned system of meanings that fosters
on how colonization has shaped their social, a particular sense of shared identity-hood and
economic, and education systems without community-hood among its group members.
necessarily being disconnected from their own It consists of a pattern of traditions, beliefs, values,
countries’ local methods civilization. norms, symbols, and meanings that are shared to
Diaspora varying degrees by interacting members of an
Historically connected with the dispersion of the identity group (Ting-Toomey & Takai, 2006 p. 691 in
Jews beyond Israel Oetzel, 2009).
A phenomenon that refers to people’s movement According to Oetzel (2009:9)
and inhabitation in countries outside of their own. We are simultaneously members of multiple cultural
Other scholars call this migration groups, such as a national culture, ethnic culture,
religious culture, gender culture, media culture,
social class culture, generation culture, which overlap
to varying degrees.