In Hickman’s article, The Effects of Media Globalization, the concepts presented by the author are about the drawbacks of media globalization. It includes the reliability of the information on internet, negative impacts to the cultural barriers, limitation for the freedom of speech, decrease of the quality of media content and distinctive regulation of the media.
Most of the consequences written by Hickman are based on multinational corporations. Many local media has merged with the multinational corporations from irrelevant field, resulting in the restriction of speech. Moreover, it also affects the economic structure such as American middle class is losing with jobs. This shows that the production line has shifted to the countries like Vietnam and India due to the low wages and rich resources.
Apart from the negative effects by multinational corporations that are mentioned in the article, they also influence the mentality and thinking of the kids. For example, one of the largest animation production companies, Walt Disney, launches various animations around the world. The animations, “Cinderella” and “Sleeping Beauty”, express the values of social status and differentiation between rich and poor. The princes with wealth, reputation and power allow them to get rid of the realistic issues. The moral values are then implanted to the kids and would cause discrimination in the future that everything can be solved with higher financial ability and power while the poor cannot. This proves that “many of the movies and characters created by Disney are far more of an unacceptably bad influence on children than we realize.” (Castillo, 2006)
In overall, the message about the impacts of media globalization by Hickman is clear and well-explained with examples given. Everything comes with pros and cons. Although media globalization brings many benefits, its drawbacks also occur at the same time.
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