Globalizacion, comunicaciones y tecnologia. La vision de Anthony Giddens y los cambios tecnologicos

2. Anthony Giddens
Director of the London School of Economics.
Among his 34 books are The Third Way: The
Renewal of Social Democracy, The Third Way
and It's Critics, and Runaway World : How
Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives.
Anthony Giddens is the most widely-read and
cited social theorist of his generation.
His ideas about Globalization have profoundly
influenced the writing and teaching of sociology
and social theory around the world.
Frequently referred to as Tony Blair's guru,
Giddens has made a strong impact on the
evolution of New Labour.

3. Anthony Giddens
We live in an era of unprecedented
globalization.
that change is more often than not
attributed exclusively to the
convergence of technology with the
financial markets.
But too often, the larger point is
missed: we have a historic opportunity.
"we have the chance to take over where the 20th century failed,
and a key project for us is to drag the history of the 21st century
away from that of the 20th.“
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/giddens/giddens_index.html

5. Guidden‟s conclusions
There are five areas where global institutions
need to be further developed:
1. Governance of the world economy
2. Global Ecological management
3. Regulation of corporate power
4. Warfare control
5. Fostering Transnational Democracy
(Giddens 2000, p. 124).

6. Extended (my) conclusions
Same global basic principles & patterns we
have seen after first century of globalization will
apply for the second stage.
Human communications, driven & enriched by:
1. wireless technology
2. mobile internet services &
3. global communities...
...will accelerate exponentially social, political &
economical transformations.
(@efernandez #visiones21 #UIMP – August 2011).

7. World Global Economy
Nation-states are main actors within
global political order
Corporations are the dominant
agents within the world economy.
In their trading relations, and with
consumers, companies … depend
upon production for profit.
Their increasing global influence
creates world extension of
commodity markets,
including money markets.

8. World Global Economy
The turnover of multinational companies might
be bigger than GDP of most states.
But nation states are still generically much more
powerful.
Reasons are:
1. Control of Territory.
2. Military force.
3. Law system & Enforcement.
(Giddens 2000, p. 122).

9. How will globalization affect the nation-state?
Globalization affects the nation-state in 3 ways
1. Globalization, especially the global marketplace, takes certain powers
away from the nation-state.
• Nation-states are not as in command of their economic futures as they
used to be.
2. The more we globalize, the more we localize.
• Globalization creates new possibilities and motivations for local
cultural autonomy and identities.
3. Emergence of regional groupings or “regional states”.
• Globalization also pushes sideways. Giddens refers to Catalonia as an
example of this in the context of UE.

10. International Division of Labor
There has been a major expansion of global interdependence
in the division of labor since the Second World War.
Shifts happened in the worldwide distribution of production:
1. Deindustrialization of some regions in the developed
countries
2. Emergence of the Newly Industrializing Countries in
the Third World
(Giddens 1990, p. 76).

11. Social movements
Giddens has identified four areas in which social movements operate in
modern societies:
1. Democratic work for political rights
2. Labor work for control of the workplace
3. Ecological concerned with the environment
4. Peace work toward, well, peace

13. Social Communities
„Globalization from below‟:
Involving millions of people and organized groups of all kinds.
An infrastructure of global civil society built by these changes.
It can be indexed by the growing number of Non-Governmental
Organizations:
• In 1950 there were only 200-300 NGOs.
• Now there are more than 10,000, trend is sharply upwards
(Giddens 2000, p. 123).

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17. “ The driving force of the new
globalization is the communications
revolution."
Beyond its effects on the financial markets
and corporations,
This revolution is fundamentally altering
individuals and the way society & public
institutions interact.

19. Definition of Globalization
in the context of communications
“Globalization can be defined as the
intensification of worldwide social relations which
link distant localities in such a way that local
happenings are shaped by events occurring
many miles away and vice versa.”

21. Dimensions of modernity
& communications
Giddens maintains that the dynamism of modernity is reliant on the following:
1. Separation of time and space:
• The condition of time-space distanciation.
2. Disembedding of social systems:
• The lifting out of social relations from local context.
3. Reflexive appropriation of knowledge/Reflexivity.
• A process through which social practices are
constantly examined and reformed.

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