Jihad vs. McWorld

Barber, Benjamin R.

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“…A mainstream culture is portrayed in the mass media, though it may be a pastiche of less visible peripheral or niche cultures. The contradiction surfaces in recent social commentary as wellÐ while globalism and multiculturalism are seen by some to be complementary economic phenomena (Rieff, 1993), globalism is viewed by others as a homogenizing threat to local culture that has provoked multiculturalism as a response (Barber, 1995;Gitlin, 1995).…”

Section: Competitive Use Of the Knowledge "Commodity" And Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They can extend their spheres of in¯uence far beyond the local geographic community (for testimonials, see Rheingold, 1993). Similar groups occasionally have been able to exert social and political in¯uence that appears to threaten the pluralist values of modern societies (e.g., the rise of fundamentalist Islam or Christianity as political forces that are intolerant of dissent; see Barber, 1995).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Our Own Devices: Heterotopic Communication, Discourse, and Culture in the Information Society 1

Lievrouw¹

1998

The Information Society

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The main premise of this article is that in information societies generally, and in virtual social contexts particularly, a distinctive style of interaction to facilitate the communication of difference, heterotopic communication, has emerged. It rests on two cultural foundations: an ideological belief in the positive, socially integrating power of communication, and a prevailing ethic of instrumental rationality,subjective individualism, and strategicallypracticed self-interest. The former is demonstrated by the use of simulation and spectacle as sources of information; exhibitionism/voyeurism as a communicative style; and the awareness of surveillance. The latter is seen in the competitive use of knowledge as a commodity; a surface globalism masking deep parochialism; lateral as well as vertical information inequity; and the use of public versus private as strategies for engagement rather than as spaces. Those who engage in heterotopic communication resort to their ª own devicesº both in the sense of personal agendas, strategies, interests, and interpretations, and in the form of the telecommunication tools that help realize them. These personal and technological devices allow individuals with the right educational and technical resources to avoid exposure to disagreement, difference, or other information that does not serve their direct purposes or re¯ect their particular views of the world; yet they also help convey the appearance of openness, availability, and cooperation. This style of interaction is used strategically in combination with information and communication technologies to gain social or economic advantages, but Received 13 December 1996; accepted 18 March 1997. Earlier versionsof portionsof this paper were presentedto the annual meetingsof the Society for Social Studies of Science, New Orleans, LA, October 1994, and of the International Communication Association, Albuquerque, NM, May 1995. The author also acknowledges the very helpful comments of several faculty members of the Communication Studies Program at UCLA and of anonymous reviewers.Address correspondence to Leah A. Lievrouw, University of California, Department of Library and Information Science, Los Angeles, 216 GSE&IS Bldg., Box 951520, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520, USA. E-mail: llievrou@ucla.edu it may encourage social separatism and parochialism, inhibit the negotiation of disputes, and emphasize competing interests.

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Section: Competitive Use Of the Knowledge "Commodity" And Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Public Versus Private As Strategies Not Spacesmentioning

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Our Own Devices: Heterotopic Communication, Discourse, and Culture in the Information Society 1

Lievrouw¹

1998

The Information Society

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“…I will conclude with some thoughts on the meaning of multicultural citizenship in the teaching of art. Barber's (1995) goal that nations be governed democratically is one that underlies education in free world ideologies. But what does this grand word "democracy" operationally mean?…”

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“…Notes 1. Under the term "Jihad," Barber (1995) indicates any dogmatic and militant group. His argument is that whereas fundamentalist religion and corporate culture may be ideologically opposed, and are thus driven by different forces, "the one driven by parochial hatreds, the other by universalizing markets" (p. 6), neither respects the principles and ideals that underlie democracies.…”

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Global and Local: Rethinking citizenship in art and visual culture education

Garber

2010

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We are all familiar with global colonization by the world’s dominant cultures. Participatory democracy (as differentiated from other concepts of democracy) is threatened by globalization because international corporations are beyond the control of nation-states. Yet thinking of globalization as bad or the local as remedy is overly reductive. In education, it is up to us as teachers and theoreticians, to develop means to guide students in ways to understand, explore, and live in our globalized world. Based on these theoretical premises, five principles are developed that provide a basis for art and visual culture teaching practice: identity, understanding beyond ourselves, race/class/gender awareness, becoming political subjects, and transgression and play.

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“…1 Societies as a whole may resemble each other in this ''McWorld'', as Benjamin Barber has described it. 2 According to this vision of the future, the current wave of globalization is a profoundly new phenomenon which has grown inevitably out of the industrialization of the last 150 years. Even moderate exponents of this globalization thesis suggest that in the process of economic growth governments are losing control over economic processes which now increasingly run on their own -despite governments having helped set economic globalization in motion.…”

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Tides of Migration, Currents of History: The State, Economy, and the Transatlantic Movement of Labor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Strikwerda¹

1999

Int Rev of Soc His

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SUMMARY: International migration has flowed and ebbed in two long waves over the last two hundred years. The major determinants of international migration have been the economy and the state. The economic forces impinging on migration are demography, technology, the level of wages, and geographical proximity, transportation, and communications. The state is the confluence of social and political forces within countries which define, encourage or curtail, and regulate movement across borders. The lesson of the nineteenth-century migration system is that states created it or allowed it to happen. They also always had the power to end it, and they eventually did. The huge break in the history of migration which accompanied the era of the world wars points to the decisive power of the state to control migration and, by extension, the direction of economic development itself. The present article reviews the major phases of the history of modern migration in order to put the present crossroads in perspective.

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Jihad vs. McWorld

Cited by 126 publications

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Our Own Devices: Heterotopic Communication, Discourse, and Culture in the Information Society 1

Our Own Devices: Heterotopic Communication, Discourse, and Culture in the Information Society 1

Global and Local: Rethinking citizenship in art and visual culture education

Tides of Migration, Currents of History: The State, Economy, and the Transatlantic Movement of Labor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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