Assignment 3

***Global Economy and International Telecommunication Networks***


*Premodern world

Example of how a shoemaker proceeds to the production of shoes, the impact this porcedure implied on both the hoemaker skills and his productivity.

*Division of Labor

Contrasting the previous production process with the process involving division of labor. The main point is the whole specialization effect resulting when an employee is only covering up a very specific field, therefore allowing better performance and the main drawbacks due to the whole coordination and control process required to minimise the effect of interdependence. The exemple of Ford is the perfect one at this level as he moved on froma centralized labor-division chain production concept, to an nationaly and internationaly distributed chain production system thanks to the developement of communication and it's role in the coordination and control process. How this concept contributed in bringing foreign goods to even the most common homes.

*Imperialism

The economic exploitation relationship between the colonizing and colonized country and how it evolved from the supply of raw material and opening of new markets for the colonizer's good to a more subtle form of colonialization. The example of the Global telegraph network wich centralized all forms of communication in the heart of the colonizer to secure and monitor lateral communication between the colonized.

*Electronic Imperialism
**GLobal media flow

How the US maintain a firm hand in most of the electronic communication aspects, ranging from TV shows to movies as they act as a central node in the Global Electronic Media flow.
How Normal ciizen are no longer able to be implicated in the media business compared to when the 1st amendment has been established as large conglomerates now have lawed hands on what has become a hioghly capitalized business.

**Transborder Data Flow

How the services benefited from the developement and modernization of global communication and the growing need for an unempeded flow of information between a companie's subsidiaries and their HQ.
The counter effect on developing countries who only serve as the brawns while developed companies take the much more valuable position of the brain.
How free trade more frequently than not ends up in the strong economy crushing the weaker ones, and exploiting it's market by flooding it with higher quality/price products.

*Emerging Network Structures

Even communication protocols which could be viewed at first glance as being distributed and in no specific country or nation's grab, are in fact managed by a single point of distribution, the US. As it's pre-installed infrastructures enables them to play this role without no serious contenders.