There are many debates on media globalization as its cultural implications had taken on huge changes in terms of communication and technologies. Also, globalization allows diversity in information exchanges and creates major social and cultural changes in societies. Thus, with the revolution of technology such as the Internet, global journalism practices had changed in both information production and in information consumption.
It is definitely an advantage for global journalists that they now have access to so much more different media sources, and are exposed to greater varieties of opinions and world views on the current affairs than before. However, in my opinion, I think that global journalism were being practiced in developed countries than in developing countries, and the reasons are the political power, media ownerships and the cultures of recipients. In the current world, countries which have more conservative and traditional societies either resisted or accepted the process of globalization. However, I still feel that traditional ways of ruling a society cannot be ignored in the face of globalization, globalization cannot be isolated from localization, and they should work together dialectically. The main reason is both processes are seen as the integrated parts on the shift towards global reality that characterized our world today.
This is especially important for country such as Singapore, whereby it is a multi-racial society that consists people from international countries of all over the world. Therefore, the interplay of the globalization and localization is necessary to us, as we do need information from the rest of the world in order to help us to maintain and substanciate the religious and racial harmony in Singapore.
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