Media and Globalization

Media has allowed people all around the world to come together like we’ve never seen before. Starting with Sex and the City, the world saw something that we didn’t know would become the future. People in Asia were trying to act like the stars from Sex and the City because they thought that’s what Americans did. Media has a lot of positives, but with positives comes some negatives. Although it can bring people together and share cultures without ever having to visit another country, it brings up a valid question: how is this shaping the world for the future? To have a melting pot of the thousands of cultures there are in the world and boil it down to one culture, is that beneficial in anyway? How does this impact learning in several different cultures?  Elizabeth Thoman and Tessa Jolls bring up the point that literacy isn’t what it used to be- now one must have literacy in media. They note that those who grew up with screens think of media as a part of daily life, not just something beyond them. They see it as a way of connecting with the rest of the world. With media globalization, what you see in one country is what another person in a country all the way across the globe from you is seeing too. Educating everyone on media is important because it’s where our world is headed. I remember growing up with toys, and at an early age learning to type in middle school so I could be fluent in keyboard. We would be timed, and we would have to make different sentences given to us. It helped my writing a lot, now I can type quickly without having to look at the keyboard and others can say the same thing for themselves. It’s easier when children learn from an early age how to use technology because that means they’ll have little difficulty in the future- which in turn means making media globalization easier.

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