ABSTRACT
Another driving force in the media economy is globalization. The word “globalization” is value-laden, as it carries with it many different meanings and possible interpretations. From an academic perspective, globalization differs depending on what discipline is analyzing the phenomenon. For example, a political scientist interested in governmental policies and strategies would look at globalization differently than would someone in the natural sciences studying global warming and climate change. A historian would have a different focus than a scholar in sociology or in anthropology.
