Lecture Notes - Globalisation, Sustainability & the Media

- friendliness and sociality of the village should come along with this idea and make us more aware of ourselves and others

- a form of imperialism of the corporations

 - colonising western capitalist force slowly eating up, through economic and ideological means and through war, and spreading over everyone else
- global resistance to this spread - anti capitalist protestors
- this system is attempting to assimilate people, rather than to bring them together
- corporations are multinational, so unaccountable to any form of politics
- no control of system

- imperialism - another form of creating an empire

- changing the way people think by forcing politics and culture on other people
- product of globalisation

Oligopolies
- giant multinational corporations, who own smaller corporations, and so on

 - biggest growth industry in India last year was skin whitening treatment - bombarded with images of beauty - western images of being white

- analysing media bias

- news is basically an elaborate system designed to indoctrinate us into a new system