In six pages this report discusses the ways in which the West influences global cultures through media imperialism or dominance. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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entire concept of cultural imperialism, especially that promulgated by the Western media, has received a significant amount of coverage and interest in the communication literature involving development and political economy.
One has to consider that the earliest forms of "media" imperialism actually took place in the days of empire building colonialism such as that practiced by Great Britain in their
colonial outposts in places such as India and Africa. The British established their colonies and then, especially in India, constructed the telegraph systems that kept the colonists and the motherland
connected in the 19th and well into the 20th centuries. As a result, there is no way to know hoe the society and cultures of pre-independence African nations and India
would have developed had they been left out of Britains determination that the sun would always be shining on the British empire somewhere in the world. Chadha and
Kavoori (2000) make the point that the larger thesis that is most commonly related to the concept of media imperialism has actually been in place since well before the end
of the Cold War. In fact, it has had a significant impact on how the media has evolved in developing nations of the world for, at least, the past thirty
to forty years. Their particular focus, as well as a number of other studies have paid special attention to how such "imperialism" has been especially prevalent in Asian nations. It
should be noted, as Chadha and Kavoori do at the end of their report that even though media imperialism is often thought of as a relatively dangerous threat there are
actually other dangers having an impact on the development of national media systems that are much more closely related to the ever-expanding influence and scope of commercialization and the lessening