Global media corporations like Disney, Time Warner, News Corporation, and Viacom own the majority of global media and promote globalization through their mainstream news channels like CNN, Fox News and BBC in English. While globalization faces criticism, the influence of major media corporations is still limited in some third world countries due to a digital divide, as seen through a lack of internet access, expensive technology, and poverty.

1. GlobalMediaCultures

12. GlobalMedia
and Global
Integration
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13. Global
Media- corporation or
entities globally
engaged in media
production and/or
distribution.

14. Global
Integration- process by which a
company combines
different activities around
the world so that they
operate using the same
methods

15. Language
Majority of these
mainstream pro-
globalization channels are
broadcast in English – the
language of the US,
globalization’s most
powerful player at this point.

16. 6 companies - in particular,
Disney, Time Warner, News
Corporation, Viacom, Vivendi
and Bertelsmann are
estimated to own and/or
control nearly 75% of the global
medias.
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Companies

17. Movies & Series

18. Music

19. Mainstream media channel:
CNN, Fox News, BBC,
TV5Monde, Deutsche Well
and the like, along their
local subsidiaries and
branches are at the
forefront of covertly
promoting the dominant
discourse on globalization.
News

20. means that (usually) in many Third
World countries a number of citizens
are still insulated from or at least not
very much influenced by the global
media.

21. ManifestationsofDigitalDivide
•Lack of high-speed internet
access
•High cost of digital gadgets
•Lack of electric power in a
number of isolated regions
•Existence of extreme poverty

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