Morality and Media
I think the frame analysis article and this article overlap in a variety of ways - I particularly like the quote on pg. 6 "Experience, both mediated and non-meditated is culturally specific" and they go on to so say that "moral order ....should be commensurate with the scope of global interdependence"
I think the article seems to make the claim that technology etc. have "Extended the range of communication" but I wonder really? to what extent? In most of the world, people scarcely have Internet still, even though they might have a phone- even still are the more "global" portrayals of what is occurring in the world being accessed? I'm not so sure, I think alot of the world lives through folk wisdom and gossip, regardless of our perspective...just a thought..
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Hey Puneet...most of the world may not have access to the Internet in their homes, but a very good portion of it has access to it at internet cafes. And, media in the forms of television and news is probably almost everywhere. I remember passing a small village in Morocco where it looked like they used a very ancient water system, but they all had satellites on top of their homes. It would be interesting to see some numbers on just how global media is. Of course, it would be equally interesting to see within a percentage of people who have access to media, how many people access it and feel or do not feel like it affects their lives (although I think Silverstone would say it definitely affects their perceptions of the rest of the world).
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