Media and the Global Divide A Bottom-up and Citizen Perspective
Sammanfattning
When addressing media and global divides, the focus of the problem is often on the overall
global trends in media and cultural production – identifying current developments in different regions of the worlds, and illustrating the complexity of these developments within
the media and communications panorama in general and cultural production in particular.
However, with the present paper, I wish to complement such meta perspectives by offering
a bottom-up and more grounded perspective upon globalization and the role of media in
articulating, or not articulating, divides.
Consequently, as my commentary to the overall theme for the 2008 IAMCR conference,
here I reflect upon media and global divides from the perspective of how these divides are
experienced in everyday life, by ordinary citizens. Particular emphasis is put upon people
who are marginalized in the societies where they live. My brief examples are from rural
Malawi, low-income urban Brazil and amongst ethnic minorities in Denmark. The lived
divides are approached from three perspectives, that of the material divides, the socio-
cultural divides and the symbolic divides. Following an account of these different lived
divides, I assess the ‘citizen tactics’, that is, the different attempts to overcome the identified
divides, suggesting that by understanding the character of such citizen tactics, we can also
understand the (re-)configuration of political identities in times of global divides.
Utgivare
Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom
Källa
Nordicom Review 30 Jubilee Issue (2009) pp. 175-184
Samlingar
Fil(er)
Datum
2009-06Författare
Tufte, Thomas
Redaktör
Carlsson, Ulla
Nyckelord
Global divides
citizenship
globalization
communication for development
social change
media ethnography
citizen media
Publikationstyp
article, peer reviewed scientific
ISBN
978-91-86523-67-1
Serie/rapportnr.
Nordicom Review
30 Jubilee Issue 2009
Språk
eng