My Global Empire

I want to be the next Rupert Murdoch, a founder of News Corporation, Australia’s Adelaide News, and other several popular media. He is a successful pioneer entrepreneur of media, as he created several successful,  creative and innovative big media companies. His ideas are very brilliant, and made him as one of the richest businessmen, and one of the most influential man in the world especially for the world of media. If I were him, I want to create something new, fresh, and innovative such as make a news company for women, meaning the news is targeted for women readers. It is including newspaper, television, radio, social media, search engine, can be access everywhere, using mobile phone, and other gadgets. I do so because news or information is mostly too formal, only read by man and executive or professional, so I want to encourage women and (girls) teenagers to read news so that they can  be more responsive with what happens in the world.

The second one, i want to be like Walt Disney. I want to build new gadget like Apple did (iPhone, iTouch, MacBook, ipad) but only for kids! Because nowadays kids are sophisticated  enough and love to play gadget as well as understand how to operated it. So, it will be so much great if they can learn how to obtain news and information from early age through their own gadget. The gadgets are design deliberately simple, easy to use, with kids design and colorful look.

references:

bio.True Story, Rupert Murdoch biography, retrieved 9 August 2012, <http://www.biography.com/people/rupert-murdoch-9418489&gt;

Soylent Communications, Rupert Murdoch,2012, retrieved 8 August 2012,  <http://www.nndb.com/people/420/000023351/&gt;

Soylent Communications, Walt Disney, 2012, retrieved 9 August 2012,  <http://www.nndb.com/people/420/000023351/>

Missing Part of The Definition of Globalization by Rantanen

“Globalization is a process in which worldwide economic, political, cultural, and social relations have become increasingly mediate across time and space” (Rantanen, 2005:3)

Even though the definition about globalization above is clear, explicit, and vivid enough, but there are some missing parts; interaction, interlink, interconnection, or integration, and health as a fundamental aspect of human being and increasingly interconnected world. Globalization is not only a process of economic, political, cultural, and social relations soaringly intercede, but also the process in which the  interaction and integration of  political, cultural, social relations, and health among people, companies and governments across the world, driven by international trade and investment and catalysed by information technology. (Coldfats, 2008).

An overview of study on the processes of globalization utters that people are facing a various aspect which containing economic, social, political, cultural, religious and legal dimensions, and all of them are interlinked in the complex manner.

Moreover, Globalization associates in very various ways with others, and root transformations in the world system, such as the high increase in inequality between developing and developed countries and between the rich and the destitute inside each country, dense population, environmental damage, ethnic gab, international mass migration problem, the emersion of new states and the collapse or decline of others, the development of the civil war, globally organized crime, formal democracy as a political condition for international aid, etc.

References:

De Sausa Santos, Boaventura, The process of Globalization, Portugal 2002

Appadurai, A. (1990) ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy’, pp. 1-23 in Public Culture, Vol.2, No 3. A shorter version is published in Theory, Culture and Society, Vol.7, No 2-3, June 1990.

Boyd-Barrett, O. (1977) ‘Media imperialism: towards an international framework for the analysis of media systems’, pp. 116-135 in J. Curran and M. Gurevitch (eds) Mass Communication and Society. London: Edward Arnold.

Globalization

My previous post gives one example of globalization; there is a huge changing in life, and all of countries across the world certainly get the impact of it. The condition is changing where  some people/societies/countries who don’t know at all about technology, modernization, digital media, and gadget, and now use it for their live. In other words, people tend to use any equipment, media, tools from conventional to modern one. Globalization changes them globally.  Since then, new terms came up such as global brand, global structure,  global media, global technology, global education, and global warming.

In terms of global education in school, nowadays every classroom has a technical network which can link the student to the world by using internet, or make them easier to understand by using electronic equipment such as in focus, projector, and so on.

Another effects of Globalization on education also bring quick developments in technology and communications within school systems across the world as ideas, values and knowledge, changing the roles of students and teachers, and producing a shift in society from industrialisation towards an information-based society.

Globalization has integrated people from different cultures, nations, political patterns and ideologies to function together for a common goal (http://zbexodus.com/). Technology also plays increasingly fundamental role of live especially in this modern era. In other words, globalization and technology work together in the modern time.

References:

Choy, C. P, Education and Globalization, 2006, retrieved  July 19, 2012, <http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/features/mso04012004.html>

Levine, Joel S., Technology and Change in Education: Culture is the Key, retrieved  July 19, 2012, <http://www.cssjournal.com/levine.html&gt;

Indonesia Loves Blackberry

Please watch this video bellow before reading this post

I really like this video because it is inspiring, funny, cheerful, meaningful, and complete. This video gives a clear picture that Indonesian loves Blackberry, and Blackberry market in Indonesia is really higher. “We are projecting 42 percent market share by the end of this year because BlackBerry loves Indonesia and Indonesians clearly love their BBM and BlackBerry smartphones,” said Gregory Wade, RIM’s regional managing director for East Asia through Jakarta Post on 17 November 2011.

He said that 90 percent out of the 50 million BlackBerry users in Indonesia used BBM for their social lives. The video also shows us that Indonesian people from various backgrounds are using blackberry. Students use Blackberry during class, especially when they feel bored, and they find it convinient  to use it because their teachers don’t know about it. Athlete find it cool when using blackberry because it makes him look like a boss. Seller, housewife, animal lover, actor, whole family members, working people are also using blackberry.

It’s all because of globalization. In the previous era, only specific class can only use mobile phone, but now, everyone can use it, even INDONESIA as the developing country, where there are many low class groups, are mostly using blackberry!

“Indonesia is so BB-addicted, even the poor people will sell their arms and legs to buy one. It’s truly a miraculous business phenomenon. Plus, give us some credit, we’re not as poor as you think!” says eriquerique, Youtube users.  

About

INTRODUCTION

Who am I

Hi! My name is Pristan Kartika Putri. I’m currently studying at Deakin majoring in Media Communication.

Why choosing Globalization and the Media

I think this subject is really important because we are now living in globalization era, where there are many huge changes of any equipment, media, information from conventional to modern/ sophisticated ones. So, I think learning about the changing of globalization, the impact, the negative-positive of it, and the globalization as a whole is really essential. The reason are; we are avoided from outdated, can still survive in this era, be able to balance the situation and know how to do, and can take advantage of the situation with the best decision.

Hopes and purposes

I made this blog is not necessarily for fun, or to fill my spare time, or to do assignment only, BUT to share and exchange information related about globalization. I’m setting up a place for the readers who want to exchange ideas, criticism, feedback, or any other comments. Feel free to speak up!

 sincerely,

Pristan

Pristan Kartika Putri

pputri@deakin.edu.au

Twitter: @ichipristan

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