Blogging through Media Trends and Globalization (2025)

 1) Summary Peter Dicken does not see economic globalization simply as "the expansion of markets across borders." His key argument is that the central actor of economic globalization is not an abstract 'market', but transnational corporations (TNCs). In other words, the global economy is not automatically integrated, but a result specifically created through companies' strategic choices and networks. Dicken criticizes the commonly imagined image of a 'stateless global company that transcends countries'. In fact, most TNCs are still deeply **embedded** in certain countries and regions, and production, research, and marketing functions are geographically and unevenly distributed. Economic globalization is not a process of creating a homogeneous global space, but rather a method of utilizing differences and imbalances between regions. In addition, economic globalization is not a single global production system, but a transnational production network intertwin...

 1) Summary Delanty and Rumford are critical of the view that explains the relationship between politics and globalization as a simple weakening or extinction of state power. According to them, political globalization is not a process in which the state disappears, but a process in which politics operates and space are reconstructed. Political power is still exercised by the state, but the state is no longer the only center of politics. The authors explain political globalization as three interactive processes. The first is global geopolitics, which shows that the state and the powerful remain key actors. The second is a global normative culture in which values such as human rights, the environment, and democracy are shared worldwide. This makes the criterion for judging political legitimacy formed in international discourse, not within the country. The third is a multi-central network such as global civil society, which is an area where political action and solidarity take place o...

  1) Summary Tomlinson describes globalization as a multidimensional process in which global connectivity is strengthened, rather than a simple economic spread or unilateral penetration of Western culture. This process includes culture as well as economy and technology, and culture is both a result of globalization and an element that creates it. In other words, it is the view that globalization does not affect culture, but that the cultural practice itself that people give meaning and choose constitutes globalization. He is also critical of the claim that globalization creates a single 'world culture'. Even if global cultural products are widely consumed, people interpret and transform them in their own social and cultural contexts. Therefore, globalization is more of a process in which differences are revealed than a uniformity of culture. In addition, Tomlinson explains that through the concept of deterritorialization, culture is no longer fixed in a specific area and deeply...

  1) Summary Rather than providing a clear definition of the question 'What is globalization?' in this article, the authors focus on explaining why this question itself cannot be easily agreed upon. Globalization is not a single phenomenon or a force, but an inherently controversial concept that can be understood differently depending on perspective and position. Robertson and White argue that globalization should not be reduced to simply strengthening economic connectivity. Of course, the expansion of capital and markets is important, but at the core of globalization is the expansion of 'global consciousness' in which the world is perceived as one whole along with connectivity. In other words, globalization is a process of more physical connections and a change in perception in which people perceive the world as a stage. The authors also explain globalization as a multidimensional process involving the various dimensions of economy, politics, culture, and society. In t...