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Session 3 - MobilitySession 3 - Mobility

People, goods and ideas

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• To explore the manner in which goods, ideas and people move or are exchanged

• To consider the challenges of interconnectedness and our roles as global citizens

• To consider how mobility impacts on issues of identity.

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Who and what moves? Why?Who and what moves? Why? People

– Tourism– Work and retirement– Education– A better and safer life

Trade Ideas and Cultural exchange

– Music– Internet– Fashion– Film and television

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Global village, Global citizenGlobal village, Global citizen

The challenge of interconnectedness and our roles as global citizens

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Global village, Global citizenGlobal village, Global citizen

• What will our future be like in an interconnected, global community?

• What are the values, thinking and actions required of us, as Australians, to be effective global citizens?

• What will be the dominant forces in the global village?

• Will the notion of national identity become a thing of the past?

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World in my morningWorld in my morning

What did you do this morning, what did you use, and where did all these things come from?

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Movement of ideas and Movement of ideas and informationinformation

Ermo - Satellite Modernity(From Voices and Visions China) Film and TV

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Satellite ModernitySatellite Modernity

Introducing advanced telecommunications systems to the central and western regions of China has the immediate effect of opening up the regions. Telephone systems are now expanding beyond the cities on the eastern seaboard. In particular, mobile phone networks, which are relatively cheap and easy to set up, are ‘leapfrogging’ the usual terrestrial systems. The process of introducing modern communications to hitherto undeveloped zones is a feature of economic change in China.

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Movement of ideas and Movement of ideas and informationinformation

Ermo - Satellite Modernity (From Voices & Visions China)

• What does ‘Ermo’ teach us about how technology impacts on the movement of ideas and information?

• How does technology impact on culture?

• How influential is television, internet, radio, mobile phones technology is shaping peoples lives?

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Mobile phonesMobile phonesFrom 1995-2003: Fixed phone lines stayed at 4/100

inhabitants but mobile phone subscribers went from 0 to 24/100 inhabitants in Morocco

Mobile phone penetration has risen from 0-21% in China & 0-9% in India

In 2000, the UN set a goal of 50% of the world’s population having access to a phone by 2015 - already 80% of people live within range of a mobile network

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Movement of goods/ideasMovement of goods/ideas

‘Brand it like Beckham’ ‘Declaration of Independence’

What are the international forces at work in these two articles - historically and contemporarily - in influencing people?

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Movement of goodsMovement of goods

Unilever’s Heartbrand ice-cream in Australia

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Movement of goodsMovement of goods

Unilever’s Heartbrand ice-cream in England

Unilever’s Heartbrand ice-cream in India

Unilever’s Heartbrand ice-cream in Malaysia

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Diamond rankingDiamond ranking

Most effective to least effective medium to move people, goods, ideas, ideologies and diseases, and the implications for knowledge, access, legalities and understanding of others

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‘In an increasingly interconnected world community, the need to understand, respect and operate within different law systems is one of the great challenges of our time.’ Cross Currents, page 20.

• How might this impact on the kind of ‘New Australia’ you designed earlier?

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• What is the impact of different legal systems and the mobility of people, particularly in the light of recent apprehensions and sentencing in Asian countries for drug related offences (eg Schapelle Corby et al)