Contra Flow in Global Media

As communication technologies develop, so do the different trends in the way of world communication. We can look at four main trends such as Digitalization, which talks about the technologies for the proccessing and transmission of information in a computerized and identical language, for example, the internet. Another trend we can look at is Consolidation, the way in which signals that may use the same language are able to change their exteriors and transfer information from one technology to the next. For example, third generation cellular phones having the option of using the internet through them. The next type of trend is Deregulation, bringing communication to a global level by having different countries surrender their regulations and accept information flow from other countires. Finally we have Globalization as the last trend, resulting in Culteral Imperialism from the enormous flow of global information