Global Communication Fall 2017

We live in a world in which telecommunication is a fundamental service which is in constant development. Thanks to the Globalization of the media and telecommunication, the information travels greatly around the world, and helped to create a Global communication. For most of the twentieth century, the State was monopolizing the national communication. In the 1990’s, the monopole of the Post, Telegraph and Telecommunication were constrained to give the flow to the private communication. This change has started from the Western countries and has affected 99% of the world’s communication. This privatization was mainly created in order to make the coasts affordable for small users.                   In the 1980’s the monopoly regulation was criticized because it did not take the innovations into account. For instance, computing, fibre-optic cables and fax machines. Thing which doesn’t go in favor of th...

After the Wold War II, the notion of the free market theory within the capitalist’s regime, as the socialist’s one, has been emerged and became a part of the cold war speeches. For the capitalists, the principal goal of this theory was to promote democracy, freedom of expression and market. While the Marxists opted for a state regulation and media outlets. This concept displayed the Western countries willingness to abolish the censorship and the propaganda used by the communists. The free market was essentially created for free market in order to sell and buy whatever proprietors wished. The media resources and and capital are located in the West; however, the proprietors are from Western countries, thing which made why their government, and national business community do beneficiate more. The concept of “free flow” was also created to serve from a political and an economical purpose. Indeed, it works on dissuading others to erase the trade barriers in order to make the news and p...

The German sociologist Habermas developed the notion of “public sphere” in his book in which he defined it as “an arena, independent of government and also enjoying autonomy from partisan economic forces, which is dedicated to rational debate and which is both accessible to entry and open to inspection by the citizenry. It is here, in this public sphere, that public opinion is formed.” (Holub, 1991). It is because of the expansion of the capitalism that people develop the ability to do the separation between the church and the state. This phenomenon leaded to a big increase in autonomous businesses followed by the creation of powerful political performance used to expedite the development of these business. The facility of printing news paper and the reduction of its cost has promoted the greater exchange of information and ideas within the public sphere. However, as the capitalism has grown and attained the world dominance, the public sphere has been transformed to public interes...