Media

Media plays a strong and decisive role in modern international relations  in this age of information technologies.   In modern global economics, media has merged from geographical to social communication altitudes as it tries to form perceptions to illicit outcomes of the economics and political offerings.  Modern communication within a community , removes the need to actually be in attendance to the representation shown on the internet and other forms of media.

Without an ethical, respectful dialogue the global communications, international relations will forever be skewed.  As the media seeks ways to increase their viewership the intentions will continue to be less moral and increase friction in communications for the world.

Media plays a large role in military, political, economic, scientific, academic, and cultural diversity discourse as it skews the confines of the global discussions. Global mergers of companies, create a company that is now impacting two countries that have completely separate political and social goals.  Broadcasts of shows and news into other countries cause social revolutions by introducing new concepts. Yet under these same changes there is good and bad.  He introduction of new ways to live can cause unempowered and the underserved and exploited to view a better life.  This can help bring voice to atrocities that are down played in the media and it can topple elite ruling parties.

Iran is a topic of great definition on how Media affects global communications.   With recordings from Ayatollah Khomeini to his followers after being exiled.  The  Marcos family ruling was toppled was broadcast on television . In the Middle East, many opposing parties smuggle in videos to illuminate the royal families.   The same happens daily in North Korea, with the US and other nations promoting the delivery to educate the people.  China’s Tiananmen Square  tape of the activists being run over by tanks is still shown as atrocities by the Chinese government.  The list goes on, and can be tracked to an uprising, that does not always create change but does communicate globally that alter international relations.

References

Mowlana, Hamid. “The Role of Media in Contemporary International Relations: Culture and Politics at the Crossroads.” Taylor & Francis, The Journal for Multicultural Discourses, 1 Nov. 2016, www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17447143.2015.1032296?src.