Global Media

Obj – To establish your knowledge of the Globe and the media within it.

Lesson Question - To what extent is media now more global than local or national?

Let’s start with numbers

• How many billions is the world population?• How millions live in London, Moscow, Tokyo,

Mexico City, Beijing?• Where do you think the most significant

population of poor people live (living on less than $1.25 a day)

Let’s start with numbers

• How many billions is the world population?– 7 Billion

• How millions live in London, Moscow, Tokyo, Mexico City, Beijing?– 8.1, 11.5, 13.1, 8.8, 7.7

• Where do you think the most significant population of poor people live (living on less than $1.25 a day)– The World Bank’s Global Poverty Indicators (using data from

2005) show that 15.9% of China’s population lives on $1.25 a day. With over 1.3 billion people in China, this is over 206 million people. China’s poverty rate has fallen significantly from 60.2% in 1990.

Languages?

• Which country has the largest number of English speakers?

• What is the most widely spoken language in the world?

Languages?

• Which country has the largest number of English speakers?– India's English-speaking population has surpassed that of

the United States and the United Kingdom. It is estimated that about a third of India's population of over a billion people has the ability to carry on a conversation in English.

• What is the most widely spoken language in the world?– Mandarin Chinese is the first language of 12.44% of the

world’s population, according to the CIA World Factbook.

Technology

• What percentage of the world has internet access?• Which country is the most highly developed for

information and communication technology, according to the researchers, who weighed factors like the number of houses with Internet access, the number of fixed telephone lines per 100 people and the technology skills of the inhabitants.

• How many users on Twitter?

Technology

• What percentage of the world has internet access?– 33%

• Which country is the most highly developed for information and communication technology, according to the researchers, who weighed factors like the number of houses with Internet access, the number of fixed telephone lines per 100 people and the technology skills of the inhabitants.– South Korea

• How many users on Twitter?– Over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340

million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.

Top Ten Countries for Internet

Top Ten Countries for Internet

1 China 513,100,000 38.4 2011

2 United States 245,203,319 78.3 2011

3 India 121,000,000 10.2 2011

4 Japan 101,228,736 80.0 2011

5 Brazil 81,798,000 42.2 2011

6 Germany 67,364,898 82.7 2011

7 Russia 63,450,004 44.3 2011

8 Indonesia 55,000,000 22.4 2011

9 United Kingdom 52,731,209 84.1 2011

10 France 50,290,226 77.2 2011

Top 10 Websites Globally

Top 10 Websites Globally

1. Facebook2. Google3. Youtube4. Yahoo5. Baidu6. Wikipedia7. Windows Live8. Amazon.com9. QQ.com10. Twitter

10 tv shows that have a global audience

• Baywatch• The Office• House• Oprah• The Cosby Show• Married with Children• American Idol• 24• Desperate Housewives• Jersey Shore

How do non-English speakers see English movies?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ8LknJE990

Languages

• After English (27%), the most requested languages on the World Wide Web are Chinese (23%), Spanish (8%), Japanese (5%), Portuguese and German (4% each), Arabic, French and Russian (3% each), and Korean (2%).[50] By region, 42% of the world's Internet users are based in Asia, 24% in Europe, 14% in North America, 10% in Latin America and the Caribbean taken together, 6% in Africa, 3% in the Middle East and 1% in Australia/Oceania.

Local, Regional, National, GlobalName some media texts that fit into each of these categories

Local, Regional, National, Global

• What has happened over time that means media is now more global?

What has enabled media to go global?

• Go back to AS – what is in place to help this happen?

Our Case Studies

• BBC – a national corporation with a commercial global arm

• News Corp – a media conglomerate with claims of being global

• Specific Youtube/news examples – Kony 2012, Gangnam Style,

Homework

• To what extent is media now more global than local or national? - essay

• Create a research sheet for BBC as a corporation and BBC worldwide specifically