Media Globalization and Journalism Ethics: A View from the South.

Globalization has impacted countries in the South on many levels, including in areas of media and journalism. Debates have been raging about the perceived homogenizing influence of the global media industry on local identities, cultures, and ideologies. Recent trends toward international concentration of mass media ownership, deregulation and privatization of national cultural industries, and new alliances between transnational media corporations and complacent governments, have led to the consolidation of market-driven journalism.This investigation will seek to outline some of the ways in which journalism and ethical practices are being shaped by the complicated processes of globalization, especially journalism in two countries of the South: South Africa and India. The paper will contextualize the broader debates about media globalization by considering journalism ethics and occupational ideologies within their material – political, economic, and cultural – contexts. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]