scholarly journals Media, Markets, and Identities: Reflections on the Global-Local Dialectic: The 1994 Southam Lecture

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Trade Policies ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
Local Media ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Media Markets ◽  
Premiere Partie

Abstract: Contrary to views of globalism as a totalizing process, the argument is made that national economic interests are driving local and global audiovisual trade policies, oftimes at the expense of legitimate cultural concerns. The article's first part reflects on some conceptual and theoretical questions raised by these developments; the second traces global-local media discourse through a comparison of national (and regional) responses to foreign satellite television programs in Canada, Europe, and South East Asia. Résumé: Nous nous opposons à l'idée que la globalisation est un processus totalisant en soulignant que ce sont les intérêts économiques nationaux qui dirigent actuellement les politiques locales et globales en échanges audiovisuels, souvent aux dépens de besoins culturels légitimes. La première partie de l'article porte sur quelques questions conceptuelles et théoriques soulevées par cette situation; la seconde retrace le discours global-local en comparant les réactions nationales (et régionales) à la télédiffusion d'émissions étrangères par satellite au Canada, en Europe occidentale, et en Asie du Sud-Est.

scholarly journals Trade Liberalization and Policy for Media Industries: A Theoretical Examination of Media Flows

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven S. Wildman
Keyword(s):  
General Model ◽  
Media Industries ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
National Media ◽  
Nous Croyons ◽  
Media Markets ◽  
Media Flows

Abstract: The recently developed microeconomic model of one-way international flows in films and television programs is shown to be a specific application of a more general model of trade in media products. Predictions of the general model are consistent with observed international flows for other media, geographic flows of media products within countries, and intertemporal flows of media products across distribution channels. The general tendency is for product to flow from large to small markets unless impeded by policy-created barriers. Earlier explanations for one-way international flows do not similarly generalize, but cultural explanations and the microeconomic model are complementary to each other. The role of market size in determining media trade flows and the effect of domestic media policies on the growth and relative sizes of national media markets should be considered in the formation of trade policies for media industries. Résumé: Dans cet article, nous discutons du modèle micro-économique récemment développé sur la circulation internationale unidirectionnelle de films et d'émissions de télévision. Nous montrons que ce modèle est l'application spécifique d'un modèle plus général d'échanges en produits médiatiques. Ce modèle plus général explique davantage que le cinéma et la télévision. En effet, il s'applique aux circulations internationales observées pour d'autres médias, à la circulation à l'intérieur d'un pays, et aux fluctuations temporelles dans les échanges de produits médiatiques entre pays. En général, les produits tendent à circuler des grands marchés aux petits, dans les cas où il n'y a pas de politiques pour faire obstacle à de tels échanges. Des explications antérieures à la nôtre pour la circulation internationale en sens unique ne généralisent pas de la même manière. Nous croyons que les explications culturelles et le modèle micro-économique sont très complémentaires. Avant de formuler des politiques d'échange pour les industries médiatiques, il est ainsi nécessaire de tenir compte de certaines questions; il faut notamment être conscient de la grandeur du marché, et des effets que les politiques domestiques ont produits sur les marchés médiatiques nationaux.

scholarly journals Human Rights in Southeast Asia

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Werner F Menski
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
And Migration

Many challenges exist regarding the discourse over human rights in South East Asia due to the complex relationship between the region’s myriad cultures, laws, religions and political desires. This socio-political environment produces a number of varying, and often contradictory, interpretations of human rights, as well as differing opinions on how they should be implemented. On one hand, some countries in Southeast Asia have internalized international human rights instruments by amending their constitutions in order to provide a semblance of protection for their citizen’s human rights. On the other hand, some countries still operate under authoritarian regimes and continue to violate certain internationally recognized rights for the sake of preserving political stability and economic development. Proponents of such regimes often claim that this is done to maintain both societal and religious harmony. Therefore, the effort to address human rights issues in Southeast Asia must expand beyond the international legal sphere and take into account the intricate relationships and power struggles between the region’s various economic interests, social and cultural norms, and religions. Furthermore, the successful implementation of human rights law in Southeast Asia will require a number of obligations and checks be imposed on the state governments in the region. The specific means by which to promote human rights in South East Asia, and how to reconcile diverging options on the definition and scope of said rights, was the theme of the 2nd Annual Conference of the Centre for Human Rights, Multiculturalism and Migration (CHRM2) and Indonesian Consortium for Human Rights Lecturers (SEPAHAM Indonesia), held in August, 2017, at the University of Jember. This article is a summary of the major points and topics covered during the two day conference.

Listening strategies used by adult learners of Japanese to comprehend satellite television programs

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 139-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoko Seo ◽  
Marilyn McMeniman
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Text Comprehension ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
L2 Listening ◽  
Listening Strategies

Abstract This paper identifies listening comprehension strategies from the perspective of cognitive psychology, with a focus on the experience of Australian learners of Japanese as a foreign language (L2). In this study, a listening strategy is conceptualised as a mental operation undertaken by a learner to solve a listening comprehension problem in a non-interactional situation. Reading researchers in L2 identified one of the variables which affects text comprehension as formal schema or discourse organisation of text (Meyer and Freedle, 1984; Carrell and Eisterhold, 1988; Carrell, 1991). However, this variable has not been the subject of intensive and extensive research in L2 listening and consequently, there is little empirical evidence which has explored this important variable. With the increased availability of media technology, satellite programs offer rich content and have the potential to provide such information. This paper investigates how news and drama texts may affect the choice of listener strategies, and discusses how the strategies selected by listeners relate to L2 learners’ language proficiency. To collect data on strategies, an introspective ‘think-aloud’ procedure is used and the results are analysed quantitatively.

Indonesia-Malaysia ties will strengthen despite spats

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Haze Pollution ◽  
Phase Out

Subject Indonesia-Malaysia ties in the light of recent challenges and controversies. Significance The environment ministers of Indonesia and Malaysia have in recent weeks traded barbs over the haze affecting much of maritime South-east Asia. Meanwhile, the EU’s expressed aim to phase out biofuels derived from palm oil has irked both countries, the world’s leading palm oil producers. Impacts The ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution will be ineffective in tackling the current haze crisis. Malaysian and Indonesian opposition to the EU’s biofuel and trade policies will delay establishment of an EU-ASEAN strategic partnership. Malaysia will likely support Indonesia’s future efforts to gain control of the Riau Islands Flight Information Region from Singapore.

TRANSNATIONALISM AND EARLY EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: THE NOUVELLES EQUIPES INTERNATIONALES AND THE GENEVA CIRCLE 1947–1957

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 773-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL GEHLER ◽  
WOLFRAM KAISER
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Bargaining Process ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Political Networks ◽  
National Economic ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Soft Factors

Based on the analysis of primary sources from party archives and the private papers of politicians in six countries, this article evaluates the influence of Christian Democrat transnationalism on European integration in the crucial formative period from 1947 to 1957. It shows how the Christian Democrats' co-operation in the Nouvelles Equipes Internationales and the Geneva Circle shaped and re-enforced their historical orientations, ideological preferences, and common party interests and played an important role in structuring the concept and the reality of a ‘core Europe’ of continental countries. It is crucial to include ‘soft’ factors such as the growing transnational political networks in the analysis of European integration history to avoid a monocausal explanation that focuses exclusively on inter-state relations and sees the integration process solely as the product of a multilateral bargaining process driven by national (economic) interests.

scholarly journals Assessment of transportation impact on regional development: case study of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Maslii ◽  
◽  
Valerijs Skribans ◽  
Keyword(s):  
System Analysis ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Scientific Technical ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Regional Product ◽  
Transport Complex

An important consequence of development of transport complex of country is a growth of economic and social well-being of population. Focus on optimally functioning transport should be considered as an important factor in sustainable economic development, and deviations from optimal values as an indicator of additional reserves for growth. Defining national economic interests is one of the main tasks of Ukraine's development. In order to develop independently, and at the same time on the basis of partnership and cooperation, it is necessary to develop transport provision for the regions and interregional integration to form a whole transport space. The author's approach in considering this problem using general scientific and special methods of scientific research made it possible to investigate these processes. The article describes a methodological approach to the study of the transportation in the regions of Ukraine on the basis of intermodality and multimodality using forms of scientific - technical and static analysis, which will contribute to the implementation of the state policy of interregional integration, taking into account freight transportation using various types of transport. A scientific and applied approach has been proposed for determining the interdependence of the gross regional product per person on the freight turnover by kind of transport by using the methodological tools of the system analysis theory in order to identify transport regions and efficiently locate multimodal terminals (transport hubs), which will contribute to the implementation of effective instruments to promote interregional integration and regional economic integration, information, education spaces into a single transport space, overcoming interregional alienation and the introduction of effective instruments of state support for interregional integration, will contribute to the implementation of interregional programs and projects.

scholarly journals Promising Directions of Cooperation Among Eurasian Economic Union Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.14) ◽  
pp. 386
Author(s):  
Olga Yurievna Myasnikova ◽  
Irina Ivanovna Shatalova ◽  
Elena Vyacheslavovna Zenkina ◽  
Tatyana Vyacheslavovna Bogacheva ◽  
Nikita Igorevich Illeritsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
Space Industry ◽  
Technological Cooperation ◽  
Technical Potential ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Economic Union ◽  
Technological Improvements

The paper explores the possibilities of technological cooperation among the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (officially EAEU, but sometimes called EEU or EAU). Based on specific and individual backgrounds of each EAEU country, the promising areas for its expansion are determined within the framework of industries with export potential, high-technological, oriented at national markets for the formation of an economic strategy focused on regional integration with the highest level of encouragement of the national economic interests of the EAPC countries. The most significant sectors of the economy are identified: the space industry, energy, metallurgy, engineering, agriculture, etc. The feasibility of value chain development in the region was highlighted, as well as the development of inter-industry and intra-sector cooperation with partner countries in strategically important sectors of the economy, which includes the opportunity of forming specific sectoral niches through specialization and development of national industrial potential of the member states. This focus will promote development and realization of internal scientific and technical potential of the EAEU countries, commercialization of R&D results, technological improvements and will increase their competitiveness on the global markets.  

Imperialism and the Developing World

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atul Kohli
Keyword(s):  
Economic Interests ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Us Imperialism ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
Industrial Societies

This book is a study of the causes and the consequences of modern imperialism, with a focus on British and US imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, respectively. It analyzes the dynamics of both formal and informal empires. It shows that, time and again, the pursuit of national economic prosperity led hegemonic powers to expand into peripheral areas of the world. Limiting the sovereignty of states on the periphery was the main method of ensuring that peripheral economies stayed open and accessible to Anglo-American economic interests. Loss of sovereignty, however, greatly hurt the life chances of people living in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Sovereign states may not be sufficient to facilitate economic progress, but sovereignty is a precondition for the emergence of effective states. Effective states, in turn, are necessary to propel countries toward prosperous industrial societies. Some exceptions notwithstanding, imperialism—both formal and informal—has thus repeatedly undermined the prospects of steady economic progress in the global periphery.

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