Media texts from other cultures which I enjoy:
I enjoy manga films from Japan such as Vampire Hunter D, Akira, Star Blazers but usually they are dubbed to English. I would call myself a “pop-cos” though as I don’t really immerse myself in the surrounding cultures of these media and their creation.
I mainly I seem to watch a lot of British and American content and occasionally a German film or TV show with subtitles although these are easily understood via the use of body language and the fact that Germany is a western nation.
What does it mean to live in an era of global media entertainment?
I think it means that within any multicultural region diasporic communities will form that will overflow into one another a more and more pop cosmopolitans form meaning that these seemingly minor cultural niches will overflow into the dominant culture of a particular region as they come to understand the value present within each other cultures. This is a 2-way process that seems to me to be a natural progression in learning and development present in many cultures.
In a time of media abundance in the shift from push to pull media it seems only natural that these overflows are more visible as the barriers to media creation and distribution are lowered and participatory cultures develop within both grassroots communities and the dominant cultural paradigms which surround them.
How does globalization change the ways in which media is produced, distributed and consumed?
Globalization allows participants of different cultures to discover and learn about new cultures. It enables them then to either recontextualize decontextulaize or share these media freely online thus lessening the barriers for entry to these cultural materials that they would have disconnected from either geographically, or disconnected through the old media gate keeping process.
How can specific cultures use the internet to maintain their systems of social organization, language and beliefs?
The interne can be used to maintain systems of social organization, language and beliefs by empowering members of specific cultures to reconnect to their cultural identity free of the restraints of time and space with low barriers to entry in the access and production of media, and without the gate keeping present of an overriding political structure.
Participants can easily set-up a repository of information online which enables the sharing and discussion of these materials building upon the “wisdom of crowds “which enables them to reconnect with their cultures and preserve the information digitally for future generations.
Users from outside of these cultures also have the ability to immerse themselves if different cultural artifacts so that they can be understood within different cultural contexts and enrich their overall world views.
I enjoy manga films from Japan such as Vampire Hunter D, Akira, Star Blazers but usually they are dubbed to English. I would call myself a “pop-cos” though as I don’t really immerse myself in the surrounding cultures of these media and their creation.
I mainly I seem to watch a lot of British and American content and occasionally a German film or TV show with subtitles although these are easily understood via the use of body language and the fact that Germany is a western nation.
What does it mean to live in an era of global media entertainment?
I think it means that within any multicultural region diasporic communities will form that will overflow into one another a more and more pop cosmopolitans form meaning that these seemingly minor cultural niches will overflow into the dominant culture of a particular region as they come to understand the value present within each other cultures. This is a 2-way process that seems to me to be a natural progression in learning and development present in many cultures.
In a time of media abundance in the shift from push to pull media it seems only natural that these overflows are more visible as the barriers to media creation and distribution are lowered and participatory cultures develop within both grassroots communities and the dominant cultural paradigms which surround them.
How does globalization change the ways in which media is produced, distributed and consumed?
Globalization allows participants of different cultures to discover and learn about new cultures. It enables them then to either recontextualize decontextulaize or share these media freely online thus lessening the barriers for entry to these cultural materials that they would have disconnected from either geographically, or disconnected through the old media gate keeping process.
How can specific cultures use the internet to maintain their systems of social organization, language and beliefs?
The interne can be used to maintain systems of social organization, language and beliefs by empowering members of specific cultures to reconnect to their cultural identity free of the restraints of time and space with low barriers to entry in the access and production of media, and without the gate keeping present of an overriding political structure.
Participants can easily set-up a repository of information online which enables the sharing and discussion of these materials building upon the “wisdom of crowds “which enables them to reconnect with their cultures and preserve the information digitally for future generations.
Users from outside of these cultures also have the ability to immerse themselves if different cultural artifacts so that they can be understood within different cultural contexts and enrich their overall world views.