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The road map of 'Unplugged'

Media companies and their local branch offices created a global web of media cities that drive the process of cultural globalisation. Social scientists specialised in urban studies draw the respective map in order to find a better understanding for the pattern of global change..

An update by Rüdiger Wischenbart

'For the process of globalisation the globally operating media firms are at least as influential as the global providers of corporate services, because they create a cultural market of global dimensions ', says German urban studies expert Stefan Krätke. He shows that the global networks of media and culture industries follow the same pattern as the flows of financial capital in their network of global cities.






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