Since the 1990s, theories of globalization have emphasized two main processes. One is the continuous time-space compression that is now felt in every aspect of human life; the other is the rapid movement and circulation of media, commodities, humans and capital. These previous works raise key questions for media studies: What are the roles of media in various global formations? Where and how do we encounter globalization/global media?
This course will examine these questions with the following focuses: The entangled relation with the national, the regional and the local in the mediated imagination of the global; The ways media industries adapt to challenges of the global conditions; how global media practices enact and create different social desires (of mobility) and senses of belonging.
