Saturday, November 27, 2010

week 9 update

Is week 9 now, still have about 5 weeks then is our final already..wuu><
Lets update about what had learn tis week...

TUTORIAL QUESTION:
Q1: Define Cyberimperialism vs cultural imperialism.
cultural imperialism- a core nation that is stronger than other country in economic and political,which spread their ideas to the weaker nation.It happen when people think that they are more develop,so they tend to follow them such ad adopted their value.
eg. Someone think that if they married to American, they are more higher status and superior than others.(the one follow their culture,value and fashion until forget about their own culture)

cyberimperialism- is mean that people using internet as their tools to reach imperialism. Knowledge is the power in cyberimperialism, knowledge here is mean internet(knowledge of technology), when people have the power and knowledge, they able to create inequality because they able to control the cyber world.

* they able to control the cyber is because of they have the technology first, and they have the better equipment and speed than others.

Q2: Explain with examples how core nations achieved cyber imperialism?
Core nation dominate peripheral nations because all nation must expand their influence to avoid decline and peripheral nations simply must remain at an increasing disadvantages in term of power.The purpose of them to do so is to avoid people forget about their culture.

Q3: What is hegemonic discourse imperialism on the Net?
Hegemonic discourse imperialism mean that that the core nation using internet to create imperialism by the way you look at the world. Eg. you go to internet and tell people about your version of story, you just tell your side story but did not tell full version of the story. It is inequality because people is just know one side of story but do not know others side, so the judgement they give is just based on one side.

Q4: Discuss how core nations achieve Pericentric imperialism?
Pericentric imperialism is equal to economic imperialism.Peripheral nations are dominated due to classes within their borders who find profit in collaborating with the core powers of other nations.It mean that the core nation is using the sources in the peripheral nation to selling back to them(peripheral nation) in a higher price.
Eg. petrol-they extract the oil and sell back the petrol to us in double price(because we do not have the technology, do not have access and not understand about the things while they can get a lot of information about it by using internet)


ok...DONE=)
and the following is the last three assignment questions...
Assignment 6: How can laws related to the Internet be enforced?
Assignment 7: Should journalists be free from constraints and law in order to ensure that their articles are objective and fair?
Assignment 8: What are the impacts of globalization on the Net?


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