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“Open-source allow communities to upload and collaborate on online projects. Examples include open source software, blogs, and Wikipedia. Friedman considers the phenomenon “the most disruptive force of all” -via, Flat World Business. I agree with Friedman in the sense that this may be the most disruptive force of all especially in shaping the media industry. This force has been able to bring the world together like never before. Media outlets are able to communicate with each other internationally via web-connectivity through open source. News can be streamed online through cell phones because of open source. The excuse “I didn’t know” is virtually a thing of the past, you didn’t know because you didn’t want to know. We can share news on blogs about what’s going on in the U.S. at 1:30pm and someone in Paris will be able to access it and leave there comments about it 5 minutes later. Open source has given us the power to change information completely or add onto previously published information. Open source has allowed for social media to reign its heavy hand upon us. Privacy is almost a thing of the past (not necessarily due to open source) but because of our love for the instant information and connections of our brothers and sisters across the nation and globe. This force has broken down the limiting walls of the internet and given us a look into the day-to-day action of the world at a moment’s notice.

The Steroids, Wireless, Voice over Internet, and file sharing. Personal digital devices like mobile phones, iPods, personal digital assistants, instant messaging, and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Digital, Mobile, Personal and Virtual – all analog content and processes (from entertainment to photography to word processing) can be digitized and therefore shaped, manipulated and transmitted; virtual – these processes can be done at high speed with total ease; mobile – can be done anywhere, anytime by anyone.”-via, Flat World Business. This force involved breakthroughs in instant messaging and file sharing, it contributed to Skype and video conferencing advancements. Music media can be shared from one computer to another through advancements with this force. Streaming movies, videos, songs and anything else that can be converted to a file can be done thanks to this force. Without The Steroids the media industry would still be stuck on your local news received by newspaper. The Steroids are the powerhouse for the media industry. I think that this force is the one that gave the already changing world the push it needed to completely flatten out.

The media industry is changing on a daily basis much thanks to all of these flatteners. People are no longer segregated oceans and borders, we make friends that we’ve never physically met and probably never will on the internet daily because the world is becoming so flat. These flatteners have made the old saying “It’s a small world after all” more true than ever before.

In the film “Darwin’s Nightmare” and in several other examples used in class, we’ve talked about the idea of there being “winners and losers” in the process of globalization. Using the example of the film or some other specific examples, identify globalization “winners” and, from the standpoint of the winners, explain why the losers should still feel positive about the process of globalization.

The losers in this film are easy to spot and I believe it is possibly the whole country of Tanzania. Here they are the people of this country working to collect fish for the “wealthier” countries while they themselves are on the verge of famine. One example of a “loser” in this film is the scene when the homeless children had a bucket of scraps and they started fighting over it and stealing it from one another. The Tanzanian people are faced with images of violence every day and the people that they are fishing to feed are the ones who are enabling the violence by shipping in guns when they fly their aircrafts in. The winners of course would be the countries flying in to collect this fish. “2 million white people eat Victoria-fish each day”. The head of the Tanzanian government may selfishly be winning because they’re allowing all of this to go on so I’m sure there has been some contract worked out between Tanzania and the European countries.

I guess from a winner’s standpoint the losers should still look at globalization positively because it turns the world into one integrated economy rather than many isolated ones. Globalization brings work to the “losers” they just aren’t profiting off of it as much as the winners. So in the mind of a winner “some work is better than no work” like in Darwin’s nightmare the fishermen maybe made a dollar today but that was probably more than yesterday.

In globalization the winners can be defined as “the rich” whereas the losers are defined as the “poor”. Globalization may be beneficial to the poorer countries by giving them the chance to sell their low cost labor which creates jobs. This in turn will lead to lower cost goods from abroad in richer countries giving them more spending power.

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