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    ethnoscape‚ technoscape‚ financescape‚ mediascape‚ and ideoscape. Ethnoscape Ethnoscape is the landscape that comprises of the shifting of people around the world. This includes immigrants‚ refugees‚ guest workers‚ exiles‚ tourists. It also includes other moving groups/individuals that form an essential feature to the politics between nations. With the shifting of ethnoscape‚ geography or country of origin is becoming of a lesser indicator of cultural mark. Technoscape By technoscape‚ Appadurai

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    various flows reflected upon the way globalisation is on culture. The five points Appadurai makes with regards to the globalisation of culture are: ethnoscapes‚ technoscapes‚ financescapes‚ mediascapes and ideoscapes.( Appadurai‚ 1996) Ethnoscapes was the constant flow of humans. Examples of this are tourists‚ refugees‚ etc. Technoscapes was the way technology evolved and how this information reached different countries. Financescapes was explained by Appadurai to be the global capital; he also states

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    Globalization and the mediated spread of the western ideal. Introduction. 1 Theoretical framework 1 Media imperialism. 1 Westernization 2 McDonaldization 2 Hyperconsumption. 3 Show description. 3 Analysis. 4 Disclusion. 5 Bibliography. 7 The western concept of a perfect body has been spread all over the world through media imperialism of the beauty industry. How has globalization affected the global body images and what consequences can it

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    In Modernity at Large‚ Arjun Appadurai proposes several frameworks to understand the global cultural flow in the modern society. It includes ethnoscapes‚ mediascapes‚ technoscapes‚ financescapes‚ and ideoscapes (Appadurai‚ 33). Among these five categories‚ the idea of ethnoscapes indicates that the availability of job opportunities leads to human migration across the globe. The capital flow causes a direct change of an individual’s decision to migrate for an employment. This idea coincides with the

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    the diversification of global cultural economy‚ Appadurai design an elementary framework of exploring the disjunctures to find out the term of dimensions in global culture including‚ technoscapes‚ ethnoscapes‚ mediascapes‚ finanscapes‚ and ideoscapes. That collection of main three dimensions of ethnoscapes‚ technoscapes and finanscapes is disconnected and unpredictable for their own constraints and incentives‚ while mediascapes and ideoscapes are built up on disjunctures. The applications of varieties

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    How Do We Locate Philippine Arts? The development of human civilization would have not been as remarkable as it is now without the advent of arts in ancient societies. Perhaps it would then suffice to say that throughout the history of mankind‚ it is us who created and polished arts from its most primitive form to its prominent status in today’s society. Even until now‚ humanity strives to challenge what has been done in this particular aspect of our society. For instance elaborate art making is

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    Was the film simply too cerebral? True‚ “Blade Runner initially polarized critics: some were displeased with the pacing‚ while others enjoyed its thematic complexity. (Nevertheless‚ it was) hailed for its production design‚ depicting a retrofitted future‚ (and) it remains a leading example of the neo-noir genre” (Wikipedia). Ridley Scott utilized German Expressionism in the film by transforming some real location shootings into gloomy backdrops of a claustrophobic futuristic city‚ and gritty techno

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    geographies.’ According to the author‚ Gareth Jones‚ imaginative geographies can be categorized by connections of global cultural flows as ethnoscapes‚ mediascapes‚ technoscapes‚ finanscapes and ideoscapes. Ethnoscapes are described as people who shift the world in which we live‚ also known as tourists‚ refugees‚ guestworkers and students. A technoscape for Latin America is the use of technology and information moving around the world about the geographic

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    cultural homogenization. According to Appadurai he believes that globalization is a battle between homogenization and heterogenization referring to a series of “scapes” which consist of five movement which are ethnoscapes (movement of people)‚ technoscapes (movement of technology)‚ financescapes (movement of money)‚ mediascapes (movement of media) and ideoscapes (movement of ideas) (Appadurai 2011). Appadurai also mentioned that if globalization is brought into other countries‚ they “tend to become

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    EXAM TIME: WEDNESDAY APRIL 30TH‚ FROM 2-5 PM IN THIS ROOM Second Exam Review Sheet Think about the two ethnographies we have read: Unity of Heart and In Search of Respect. How does each author go about writing their ethnography? How do they present the people they are studying? How do they place themselves into the ethnography? How does the cognatic descent system of the Nanumea reinforce their egalitarian culture? The cognatic system is an inheritance system that encourages people

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