Thursday, September 3, 2009

Globalization


Globalization is a process of interconnecting people with different skills from all around the world. It is also a newer form of society. Globalization helps in the exercise of power at global scale. Earlier there used to be things limited being local, run by local people, but globalization has helped people to get wide, broad and international along with increasing standard. Globalization is a process, a two way process. As mass media have played significant role in bringing the society into globalization phase, the process of globalization has affected mass media in various ways. The term globalization encompasses a range of social, political and economical changes. Globalization represents a significant shift in the spatial form of social relations so that the interaction between apparently local and global process becomes increasingly important. It involves the organization and exercise of power at a global scale.
We talk about international things, or personalities, or brands, or any thing that we people recognize around the world and try to follow the on going trend is in a simple manner called globalization. ‘Loreal’ is the product used by Aishswarya Rai and is the same product used by a common Nepali, because the product is global, its circulated world wide.
This world started with a small unit; an individual from which started intra personal communication, later it grew to a group of people which gave birth to interpersonal communication, and when there came a situation to communicate from one corner of the world to other, mass communication was discovered. It was in 1920s when the concept of mass was formed. So as according to the needs of people mass communication further enhanced to being globalize. Today due to globalization we are connected reach and every happening, materials, economy, politics, cultures around the world. Globalization has helped changing the society’s form. It has made people aware. Technologies like computer, internet, cell phone, fax machine are global.
But again there are not always advantages of globalization. Internet has promoted globalization but at the same time the same process of globalization has made man confined, despair from being social and observing answers of life’s question from nature. It has made people self centered. Because of the globally improved technology every need can be fulfilled sitting inside a room. So saying globalization has always and only helped people enhance may not be correct.
Earlier people used to go the girl’s house to see the girl for marriage, have a long process and then only decide for marriage, but today sitting in Nepal’s small town people decide to get married to an Australian through computer, that in the simplest form can be defined as globalization. Being able to eat pizza with home delivery is globalization, watching movies of Angelina Jolly in our local theaters is globalization, and calling our mother “mummy” instead of “aama” is globalization.