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INTRODUCTION
Media and Democracy
in the Age of Globalization
PATRICK D. MURPHY
Agents of participatory democracy or purveyors of consumer capitalism?
Guardians of the public sphere or lap dogs of the power elite? Much of the
debate about media’s role in the “democratization” of various societies
around the world demands an examination of the implications of such ques-
tions. For starters we might consider if mass media engender, as Marshall
McLuhan once envisioned, a “global village” where democracy is encouraged
along with universal understanding and the cultivation of a cosmic con-
sciousness. Or is media transformation within new democracies nothing
more than a tool of global economic powers to colonize previously
“untapped” social domains via information, entertainment, and new tech-
nology? While perhaps seeming to be artificially oppositional in the face of
today’s complex political and cultural landscapes across the globe, these
questions are nevertheless useful points of departure in that they suggest
how media might serve to alter, enable, or disrupt the cultural sovereignty of
nations and political potency of communities. Indeed, variations of these
themes have been at the heart of controversies regarding the scope and legit-
imacy of regional trade agreements (Galperin, 1999a, 1999b), and within
them resides the core issue of in whose interest and benefit are media and
new communication technologies being used to reshape nations and
“democratize” the flow of information and capital. In short, what “kind” of
democratic reform is taking place, and how are media involved?
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