The rise of the global leisure/cultural industries Introduction The term ‘globalization’ is widely used to describe a variety of economic‚ cultural‚ social‚ and political changes that have changed the world over the past 50 years (Guttal‚ 2010). Globalization can be conceived as time-space compression‚ accelerating interconnectedness‚ and action at a distance (Kim‚ 2005). Globalization thus suggests the expanding scale‚ speeding up and deepening impact of flows and patterns of social interaction
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apparent the more it is empiricised or made exclusively reducible to one or other technical medium. This in turn underpins the historicism of second media age thinkers‚ for whom interactivity becomes synonymous with the ‘interactive society’. (Castells‚ Van Dijk) Interactivity has almost turned into a dull buzzword. The term is so inflated now that one begins to suspect that there is much less to it than some people want to make it appear. No company would fail to claim that it is keen on
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According to Castells‚ networks constitute the new social morphology of our societies.[4] When interviewed by Harry Kreisler from the University of California Berkeley‚ Castells said "...the definition‚ if you wish‚ in concrete terms of a network society is a society where the key social structures and activities are organized around electronically processed information networks. So it’s not just about networks or social networks‚ because social networks have been very old forms of social organization
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Information Age is a term that has been used to refer to the present economic era. The name alludes to the global economy’s shift in focus away from the production of physical goods (as exemplified by the industrial age) and toward the manipulation of information. Information technology The relatively recent field of information technology concerns the use of computer-based information systems to convert‚ store‚ protect‚ process‚ transmit and retrieve information. Technological advances in
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References: Billig‚ M. (1995) Banal Nationalism. London: Sage. Castells‚ M. (1997) The Power of Identity‚ vol. II of The Information Age: Economy‚ Society and Culture Clifford‚ J. (1997) Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge‚ Mass.: Harvard University Press. Garcia Canclini‚ N. (1995)
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3705 PORTFOLIO EXAMINATION 2014 Second semester Assignment number 238261 OFENTSE MOAMOGOE I‚ Ofentse Moamogoe‚ hereby declare that this is my own and personal work‚ except where the work(s) or publications of others have been acknowledged by means of reference techniques. I have read and understood Tutorial Letter CMNALLE/301 regarding technical presentation requirements‚ referencing techniques and plagiarism. OL Moamogoe 50271164 09-26-2014 B Shazi (witness) 1 TABLE OF CONTENT PAGE 1. INTRODUCTION
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John Snow | Name of Model: Control of Cholera Pandemic Area of Use: Population and Migration Person who developed model/theory: John Snow- 1813-1858. He was an English physician‚ and the father of epidemiology. Premise: Dr. John Snow mapped out the Soho District and used symbols to mark people with cholera. He saw that people around the water pump were more infected with the disease‚ and so he made it impossible to get water from the pump which decreased the amount of cases of cholera. People
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Communication & Social Movements It can be argued that communication networks are not only present in all social movements‚ but‚ are in fact essential to their formation and emergence. As Manual Castells argues in Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age‚ social movements all throughout history could not have been possible without the communication networks formed by individuals who had a common purpose and goal that challenged the norm of society. Social movements
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References: Castells‚ Manuel. "The Culture of Real Virtuality: The Integration of Electronic Communication ." The rise of the network society. Malden‚ Mass.: Blackwell Publishers‚ 1996. pp.220-255. Print. Gutstein‚ Donald . "Computer-Mediated Communication and Interpersonal
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and finance (Held et al. 1999: 3). On the other‚ the other group of transformalists recognise ‘globalization’ as a new challenge to act as a force behind the economic changes that is shaping societies in order to transform them (Ibid: 7; Borja & Castells‚ 1997‚ Sassen 1996). The third group assume globalization as transformation of economic and political organisation through technological advancement. Thirdly‚ the more controversial approach is critics; here also three groups of thoughts. Firstly
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