Clearly, the next race is to be the company (companies, open-source organization, whatever) that brings media power to the GLOBAL masses - on this we can certainly agree - 100%.
In my view, the challenge of all economic systems is to most-efficiently valorize the eternal tendency of human beings to create and do useful stuff. I think that I believe in your "development states" completely - like as an article of faith - but maybe I see them in a more anarcho-syndicalist context.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:21 AM, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> On Mon, September 1, 2008 12:58 pm, boddi satva wrote:
>
>> I'm fascinated by Naruto and Hello Kitty and how seemingly very
>> Japanese media icons are being accepted in the West, across enormous
>> barriers of language and culture.
>>
>> Is it something like that?
>>
>> Bollywood is an enormous international force.
>>
>> What is coming out of China?
>
> Online videogames, Cantopop, some great films, though animation and comics
> are just starting to take off. China is also tightly linked with the Hong
> Kong film industry - it's hard to separate the two anymore.
>
> What's fascinating isn't just the explosion of local media - FM radio
> stations are blossoming across the periphery, e.g. Bangladesh, West
> Africa.
> It's the powerful South-South linkages or links between semi-peripheries -
> Bollywood, source of 25% of the world's films, is the most famous example,
> of course, but there are tons of other examples:
>
> - Russian mass media (music, film, TV) across Central Asia, Eastern Europe
> - Egyptian mss media across Arabic-speaking countries
> - Brazilian mass media across Lat Am and Lusophone Africa
> - S Korean mass media across East Asia (the Hallyu wave)
> - Nigeria mass media across West Africa, S Africa
>
> The thing is... all these media explosions are happening *simultaneously*.
> To be perfectly honest, we media scholars don't have good models to
> explain this just yet. But we're definitely entering the world of
> post-American media.
>
> -- DRR
>
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