“Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization” Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 23 - 24, 200 9 Media, Sovereignty and Global

1. “Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization”  Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 23-24, 2009Media, Sovereignty and Globalization Mislav KukočUniversity of Split, Croatia

2. Globalization & Democracy • positive and negative efects: • Globalization → 1980-90’s‘third wave’democratization: • Collapse od Communism: Central and Eastern Europe, • Collapse of Apartheid: South Africa, • Collapse of military dictatorships: Latin America • But: • From the Greek polis to the modern nation-state: • democracy  limited territory or community • Globalization supra-national institutions - transborder mutual relations; undermined democratic capacities of national governments. • Globality has transcended territory and thwarted state sovereignty. 2

3. The Westphalian order : • (The Westphalian piece: 1648) • National community in sovereign state • Public control of power • Multiparty political system • Free and fair elections • Free independent media • Human & civil rights • Educated citizens • Rule of law • Globalization : • Supra-national institutions with transborder relations • Supra-teritorial societal relations • Global democracy needs more than a democratic state • Suprastate democracy: regional & transworld regimes • Post-sovereign rule of globalisation  • Democratic defficite: EU, UN 3

4. Globalization → nonofficial suprateritorial chanels of global democracy: • Global markets • Global civil society • Global communications • (Jan Aart Scholte: Globalization: A Critical Introduction, pp. 272-282.) 4

5. Global Communications • Marshall McLuhan: “World as a global village” • Global communications → World triumph of democracy • Internet, video, tele-conferences, interactive television • Electronic / 'digital' democracy: 'netizens‘ in 'virtual (cosmo)polis' • ‘Push-button democracy‘  electronic referenda • Instant input to policy • But … • Dubious democratic credentials • Networked demos – too small and global unrepresentative • Electronic mass media = sources of demagogic manipulationand anaesthetizingcritical consciesness • Global communications = a lucrativeform ofsupraterritorialand suprastate capitalism 5

6. John Dewey (1859-1952) Democracy and Education: An introduction to the philosophy of education (1916) • "Democracy and the ethical ideal of humanity are synonymous." • The Democratic Ideal:“A democracy is more than a form of government; a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.” • Purpose of education in a democratic society: to do away with the Aristotelian dualism of labor and leisure free practice and leisure for all.

7. John DeweyThe Public and its Problems(1927) • The public: a democratic citizenship or phantom ? • Politics: the work and duty of each individual. • The political knowledge  interaction of citizens, elites, experts, through the mediation and facilitation of socially responsible democratic journalism. • audience  users (citizens and collaborators) • Great SocietyGreat Communityvia interommunication  journalism • distractions of modern society / technology: special interests, powerful corporate capital, numbing and distracting entertainment, general selfishness, the vagaries of public communication – eclipse the public