Response to Shantel Lawrence (Globalization, Technology and Media in Third World Development)
How can we the third world develop through technology when there is a media/information hierarchy where the west has the control over the means of global media production and information technology while the non-west do not have the means to make their points of view in order to enter the global media networks. A spiritual hierarchy that privileged Christians over non-Christians/ non-western spritualities institutionalized in the globalization of the Christian (Catholic and Protestant) churches.(class notes)
According to Sardar ( 1999;p.44) the real power of the West is not located in its economic muscle and technological might. Rather it resides in its power to define. The West defines what is for example freedom, progress and civil behavior, law, tradition and community, reason, mathematics and service what is real and what it means to be human.
Speaking of freedom, they use language in a subtil way to make people believe that they care, e.g. President Truman speech concerning development was indeed toward their own benefit. S. B.
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