Tomlinson - Beyond connection
Tomlinson, J. (2011). Beyond connection: Cultural cosmopolitan and ubiquitous media. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 14(4), 347–361.
This article can be read as a complement to Tomlinson’s pre-internet discussion of cultural globalisation. It considers the period of modernity in which media technologies and institutions were emerging as significant shapers of cultural attitudes, in light of their ubiquity and the taken-for-grantedness they have achieved in contemporary, media-saturated times. Tomlinson’s contention, echoing earlier Roger Silverstone’s, is that increasing media connectedness in itself will not foster a cosmopolitan outlook.
John Tomlinson “Beyond connection: Cultural cosmopolitan and ubiquitous media”