According to SearchCIO.com, the definition of Glocalization is a term that was invented in order to emphasize that the globalization of a product is more likely to succeed when the product or service is adapted specifically to each locality or culture it is marketed in.
Even though, this definition of Glocalization is more suitable to be applied in the business world, however, I feel that if the news from for example, America, is not able to have any form of impact or effect the consumers in other countries like, Singapore, i believe that news would not be sought out by or even be on the newspaper of Singapore.
It's all about how relevant that particular news has on the local market.
For example, on November, 2008, the Mumbai terrorist attack, most Singaporean at first felt little on the terrorist attack. Until, when there was a Singaporean identified as one of the victim in the attack, then a massive reports on the whole situation had been seen and reported on local media. This formed a connection on this global news to local interest, and thus resulted in this global news in local media context.
In conclusion, for news to be called and presented as global news, it will always be presented as local news for the local community before it is spread out into the global news market when it concerns the local community in other countries, thus there's no globalization or localization, but glocalization - the hybridization of both terms.
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