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Globalization: Has the iPhone changed the world we live in?
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GLOBALIZATION & THE iPHONE
Russia
The iPhone encourages globalization, bringing together images and video from around the world... This is where Simulacra starts to set in.
Social Media like YouTube plays a big part in this, with popular videos of certain countries creating/supporting stereotypes. Without ever traveling in Russia, we may now assume that if we ever did, it would be at risk of gun violence. Speaking of gun violence, lets see whats happening in the Gaza strip!
Mother Russia
The iPhone is on its way!
PIT STOP!
Globalization, consumer culture and Post/Late/High Modernism are closely allied phenomena because of the rise of popular culture, hastened by electronic media.
France
Maybe it will lead them right back here to Western Massachusetts!
Shameless plug*
Or maybe to Canada...
People wait in line for the new, slightly different than their iPhone4s, iPhone5.
United States
of America
The story starts here:
At Apple Headquarters in
Cupertino,
California
So what else does the iPhone have to do with globalization?
China
Well... It has a camera attached, for one thing. What better way to bring societies on different continents together? Just a few taps of the screen and you can see whats happening anywhere in the world... Like, oh, say, Russia!
Gaza Strip
What is life really like in Saudi Arabia?
I've never been there, but as far as I can tell by the things my iPhone shows me, its a hell of a place to drive in...
So amongst this Hyperreality we are all living in, what do you suppose the USA looks like to all of these people that have been stereotyped by the media? Well... Perhaps something like this...