Module 2: Communication & Globalization

Globalization

• it involves proliferating connections among societies and peoples, growing porosity of national frontiers, the proliferation of transnational processes and the growing importance of authoritative actors. - Mansbach and Rhodes (2013)

Hyperglobalist

• They believe that globalization is a positive action because it is characterized nu economic uplift, high prosperity and the spread of democracy.

Skeptics

• They are skeptical about the idea of global economic integration being anything particularly new. 

Transformalist

• Modern processes of globalization are historically irrelevant as the government and people across the world believe that there is an absence of clear distinctions betweeen the gobal and the local. 

Colonization

• is a part of ongoing processes of subjugation that are linked to other forms of oppression including labor, occupation, & resource extraction. 

Diaspora

• This phenomenon refers to people’s movement and inhabitation in countries outside their own. Other scholars call this “migration”.

Technology

• The application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life. It aims to the change and manipulation of the human environment.

Keep it Simple

• clear and easy-to-understand manner/way.

Eliminate technical Jargon

• Replace technical or complex terms with clear, everyday language.

Be concise, but not too straightforward

• Cutting out fluff without cutting courtesy.

Avoid abbreviation & acronyms

• it makes the message ambiguous.

Reduce canned phrases

• it makes it generic, robotic or insincere.

Be Concrete

• using specific, clear, and vivid language.

Be Conversational

• Communicate with a specific voice and to a particular ear.