The document discusses several topics related to global media and globalization, including: 1. The premises and results of globalization, including cheaper transportation/communication, the internet, English as the main language, and the idea of the world becoming a single place or "global village". 2. Different views on the "new global order" and questions around whether it will be democratic or dominated by large economies. 3. Issues around cultural imperialism, gatekeepers of information, imagined communities, and nationalism in the context of globalization. 4. Examples of media convergence in content, distribution platforms, industries, and culture. 5. Discussion of sites like AdBusters that resist branding and provide

1. Media History 7 th session: Global Media Steen Christiansen [email_address]

2. The pool was nice

3. Also at night

4. Graffiti hunting in Pittsburgh (home city of zombies)

7. Will you recommend such a trip to new students?

8. [email_address]

9. Global media

11. Internet as tool

12. English as main language

13. Free trade as ideal

14. Information as main commodity

16. Local and national economies, societies and cultures will become integrated under a more unified political, economic and cultural order

21. WTO protests

22. Suspicion towards media conglomerates

24. This may well change

27. Censorship

30. Imagined Communities

31. Imagined Communities

33. The first media war

34. Media lost the war

35. Media reflected popular opinion

38. Collateral Damage

40. There is now an al-Jezeera channel in English

42. Distribution convergence

43. Platform convergence

44. Industrial convergence

45. Social convergence

46. Aesthetic convergence

47. Cultural convergence

49. Cloud Computing

50. Most devices can be connected to the computer

54. Soundtrack

55. Spin-off TV series

56. Amusement park rides

57. Books and comicbooks

58. Merchandise sold at Disney stores

59. Pirates of the Caribbean

60. Winnie the Pooh

62. Hardly the actual case

66. Aesthetic dominance

67. Remakes and Hollywood adaptations

68. Narrative codes are unified and homogenized

69. Diversity needs to find other channels of distribution

70. BoingBoing

71. Distributor of videos

72. Distributor of videos

73. Nerd and fan site, especially for computers

75. Illegal but done in the name of free speech

76. Still, they are part of Creative Commons and do not condone filesharing sites etc.

78. Many hackers frequent the site

80. Uses the Internet to communicate

82. AdBusters

83. AdBusters

85. AdBusters

86. AdBusters