Thursday, February 17, 2011
Media Conglomeration An Overview
Media conglomeration is a growing trend for global media to be more concentrated in ownership. Media conglomeration affects who owns the media. It also affects how the media is produced, exported, the content, and the impact that it has on its audience. Through a series of different mergers and acquisitions media companies become part of much larger conglomerates that may actually represent all different forms of business. When minimal numbers of conglomerates own multiple media industries they fail to recognize what a nation’s public interests are and fail to provide proper media and news coverage for the area they are representing. The media becomes dominated by whatever will produce the largest profit for the conglomerate and the industry can become monopolized by the conglomerate’s specific interests. If a company is only looking to produce revenue then news runs the risk of becoming more sensationalistic, news that will interest the average individual. Air time becomes littered with reports of Hollywood stars, sex scandals, and celebrity rehab replacing international, political, and economic news reports.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Moving Forward With Globalization
In recent years, Chile has become one of S. America’s most stable countries. This stability has made way for their economic growth and rise in foreign investments. Currently, Chile has free trade agreements with approximately 50 countries which has allowed for businessmen to invest more than 40 billion dollars creating over 200,000 jobs for Chilean inhabitants.
Since the end of the 17 years Pinochet regime, Chile has been moving forward in the world embracing the beneficial aspects of globalization. Opening up their economy to free trade was just the beginning.
The U.S. Chile Equal Opportunities Scholarship Program was established to sponsor English and academic studies for Chilean PhD students who come from disadvantaged and rural areas that have not traditionally had access to English language schools or study abroad opportunities. The program has been quite successful, becoming a model for other international scholarships programs with Chile. In 2008 President Bachelet announced plans to increase funds to support sending students to study abroad, with hopes of sending up to 1,000 students that year. At least one- third of those prospective students reported hopes of going the United States.
As discussed in our class, globalization generally travels “from the west to the rest” and the United States and Chile most definitely highly interactive. More than 10,000 U.S. citizens reside in Chile and there are about 170,000 U.S. citizens that visit Chile annually. Beyond that over 66,000 visitor visas are issued to Chilean citizens that plan to travel to the U.S. At the U.S. embassy, the Public Affairs Section cooperates with universities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on a variety of programs of bilateral interest. The Public Affairs Section works daily with Chilean media focusing on bilateral and regional relations while also assisting with visiting foreign media, such as U.S. journalists. They work through the Information Resource Center, to spread information about U.S. policies, society, and culture.
Having all these interactions through free trade policies, foreign investors, international scholarship programs, and just travel I would assume has played a large role in Chile’s movement to a more globalized nation, while voluntarily adopting many of the United States cultural norms. Every time someone travels or interacts with someone from another country a transference culture has taken place.
This is also happening through Chilean media. Chile ranked 33rd out of 178 countries in media rights group Reporters Without Borders' 2010 world press freedom index.
Chile's national and local terrestrial TV channels operate alongside extensive cable TV networks, which carry many US and international stations.
Their constitution provides for freedom of speech and of the media, and this is generally respected by the authorities. The media maintain their independence, criticize the government and cover sensitive issues. Approximately, 8.4 million Chilean’s are internet users.
Since the end of the 17 years Pinochet regime, Chile has been moving forward in the world embracing the beneficial aspects of globalization. Opening up their economy to free trade was just the beginning.
The U.S. Chile Equal Opportunities Scholarship Program was established to sponsor English and academic studies for Chilean PhD students who come from disadvantaged and rural areas that have not traditionally had access to English language schools or study abroad opportunities. The program has been quite successful, becoming a model for other international scholarships programs with Chile. In 2008 President Bachelet announced plans to increase funds to support sending students to study abroad, with hopes of sending up to 1,000 students that year. At least one- third of those prospective students reported hopes of going the United States.
As discussed in our class, globalization generally travels “from the west to the rest” and the United States and Chile most definitely highly interactive. More than 10,000 U.S. citizens reside in Chile and there are about 170,000 U.S. citizens that visit Chile annually. Beyond that over 66,000 visitor visas are issued to Chilean citizens that plan to travel to the U.S. At the U.S. embassy, the Public Affairs Section cooperates with universities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on a variety of programs of bilateral interest. The Public Affairs Section works daily with Chilean media focusing on bilateral and regional relations while also assisting with visiting foreign media, such as U.S. journalists. They work through the Information Resource Center, to spread information about U.S. policies, society, and culture.
Having all these interactions through free trade policies, foreign investors, international scholarship programs, and just travel I would assume has played a large role in Chile’s movement to a more globalized nation, while voluntarily adopting many of the United States cultural norms. Every time someone travels or interacts with someone from another country a transference culture has taken place.
This is also happening through Chilean media. Chile ranked 33rd out of 178 countries in media rights group Reporters Without Borders' 2010 world press freedom index.
Chile's national and local terrestrial TV channels operate alongside extensive cable TV networks, which carry many US and international stations.
Their constitution provides for freedom of speech and of the media, and this is generally respected by the authorities. The media maintain their independence, criticize the government and cover sensitive issues. Approximately, 8.4 million Chilean’s are internet users.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
My First EVER...
I know that this does not apply to our class but i came across it while i was looking for information on Chile, and its such a beautiful description about the country that i will spend this semester talking about.
“After the world was created and all of the oceans were in place, the mountains, volcanoes, the rivers and valleys, Glaciers and Deserts, the Creator of the Earth had saved up left-over bits of all of the most beautiful and precious pieces, during the period of the Earth’s creation. The pieces he had were precious and rare. He wanted to put them in a very special location, far from the ravages of the rest of the world. He put together these most magnificent mountains, waterfalls, lakes, volcanoes, flowers, berries and dazzling beauty and peace filled the land. Rivers and valleys filled with many fish, plant and animal life all lived in peace and harmony. There were no poisonous snakes or truly dangerous creatures. He called his secret spot of joy, beauty and wonder Chile, which means ‘at the land’s end.’”
Prior to the 1973 military coup that created a 17yr. dictatorship, the press was highly politicized with five pro-government dailies and government owned publishing house. competing against this was the three dailies and regional papers of a conservative family owned group, El Mercurio.by the mid 2000s after many changes that were created because of the adopted neo-liberal policies of the dictatorship, Chile had a local press duopoly but also had foreign ownership in radio, television, and telecommunication services (like the internet) which differed from the customary regional model of media.
Chile has about 50 newspapers throughout the country. There is a very competitive newspaper market in Santiago, with about a dozen dailies to choose from. Chile produces media in German, French, Spanish, and English. The English newspaper, The Santiago Times, work in partnership with the CHIP, the Chile Information Project. & There are five nation-wide television stations based in Santiago. Televisión Nacional(Channel 7) is the only state-owned television station.
The radio is Chile’s farthest reaching mass media. The country boasts more than 140 radio stations. Stations broadcast to Chile’s most isolated communities.
Chile's media focus ranges from business, general interest, government, and sports.Chile seems to be very globalized and up to date in their media and i have yet to read about any restrictions on their media consumption.
“After the world was created and all of the oceans were in place, the mountains, volcanoes, the rivers and valleys, Glaciers and Deserts, the Creator of the Earth had saved up left-over bits of all of the most beautiful and precious pieces, during the period of the Earth’s creation. The pieces he had were precious and rare. He wanted to put them in a very special location, far from the ravages of the rest of the world. He put together these most magnificent mountains, waterfalls, lakes, volcanoes, flowers, berries and dazzling beauty and peace filled the land. Rivers and valleys filled with many fish, plant and animal life all lived in peace and harmony. There were no poisonous snakes or truly dangerous creatures. He called his secret spot of joy, beauty and wonder Chile, which means ‘at the land’s end.’”
Prior to the 1973 military coup that created a 17yr. dictatorship, the press was highly politicized with five pro-government dailies and government owned publishing house. competing against this was the three dailies and regional papers of a conservative family owned group, El Mercurio.by the mid 2000s after many changes that were created because of the adopted neo-liberal policies of the dictatorship, Chile had a local press duopoly but also had foreign ownership in radio, television, and telecommunication services (like the internet) which differed from the customary regional model of media.
Chile has about 50 newspapers throughout the country. There is a very competitive newspaper market in Santiago, with about a dozen dailies to choose from. Chile produces media in German, French, Spanish, and English. The English newspaper, The Santiago Times, work in partnership with the CHIP, the Chile Information Project. & There are five nation-wide television stations based in Santiago. Televisión Nacional(Channel 7) is the only state-owned television station.
The radio is Chile’s farthest reaching mass media. The country boasts more than 140 radio stations. Stations broadcast to Chile’s most isolated communities.
Chile's media focus ranges from business, general interest, government, and sports.Chile seems to be very globalized and up to date in their media and i have yet to read about any restrictions on their media consumption.
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