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The Idea of the Internet Homogenizing Culture
By Bernice Ly
The issue concerning whether the Internet plays a pivotal role in
globalization is a highly contentious and debatable topic.
Globalization, often defined as “the integration of economic capital
markets and culture throughout the world” is seen as a concept that has
both negative as well as positive benefits. The rate of growth in the
globalization of nations and geographical regions is seen to be heavily
assisted by the speed of information knowledge that the Internet
provides.
However, although in theory, the sharing of knowledge is
supposedly to be beneficial towards the development of humanity, the
Internet also provides a pathway to homogenizing culture and creating an
unequal playing field for developing nations. This argument can be
clearly seen in case studies of Asian nations, especially in Thailand.
Hence, the use of Internet and the growth of businesses on the Internet
have increased, the question raised is that although technology has
advanced communication and knowledge, has this benefit affected people
living in developing countries, or has the gap between the rich and the
poor widened?
The Internet is a unique form of media. It has the
power to reach many but this is affected by factors such as financial
status, technological skill, knowledge, and the desire for the medium.
The Internet is not necessarily appropriate or possible for everyone to
have, and in a country like Thailand, it can be clearly seen that the
less fortunate have been marginalized, especially the uneducated and
those from rural areas. For example, seventy percent of Thailand’s
Internet users are concentrated in The Bangkok Metropolitan Area
(Hongladaron, 2003) and only four to five percent of Rural Thailand has
access to the Internet.
In a few of his articles the scholar
Hongladaron has also discussed the marginalization of rural Thai
citizens. Hongladaron states the benefits of the Internet, but then
confirms from his research that because these benefits are only
accessible by the wealthy, hence, due to the poor being marginalized,
the Internet can be considered to be a discriminatory form of medium.
However, Hongladaron also argues that the Internet does not homogenize
cultures. He states that “the relation between computer-mediated
communication technologies and local cultures is characterized neither
by a homogenizing effect, not by an erecting of barriers separating one
culture from another.” (Hongladaron, 1998).
Hongladaron came to a
conclusion about the Internet homogenizing culture, but only to a
limited extent. With limited information being available on the ways
that Thai people interact on the Internet, or view the Internet as a
medium, it’s hard to conclude whether the overall effect of the Internet
is homogenizing. However, it can be clearly stated that the Internet
does marginalize those who are unable to use this medium.
As usage
of the Internet becomes more popular, the debate of homogenizing
culture is fiercely debated. Some academics argue that because the
Internet benefits the rich and the educated, those who are able to use
the Internet usually have a level of mental capability, thus, the
homogenizing of culture is only applicable to a limited extent. For
example, the Bengali tribes in Bangladesh practice sustainable living
and do not value the knowledge that is presented on the Internet. They
view the Internet as a very negative form of communication, as personal
contact is not made. Members of the Bengali tribe live by the Hindu
religion and everyone in the tribe has a certain role.
Thus, the
tribe as a whole is self-sufficient and members do not feel the need to
adopt the values and the ‘teachings’ of the Internet. Furthermore,
indigenous Tibetans are another example where the knowledge of the
Internet does not reach the people. Due to their belief of the Buddhist
teaching of the Livelihood, they believe in living in harmony with their
surrounding land. Members of these indigenous communities do not
believe in the Internet as they would argue that the computer is a want
and not a need. Hence, in considering the issue of whether the Internet
is a tool for the homogenization of culture, although some would say
‘yes’ due to developing Asian nations becoming westernized due to
propaganda on the Internet, others would argue that only Asian
communities that have already been westernized use the Internet. These
academics would argue that some Asian communities, especially those in
indigenous tribal communities, would not use the Internet because of
their cultural paradigm, hence the Internet community is already focused
on just one group of culture with one group of people sharing a common
belief: ‘that the Internet is a useful tool’.
Finally, it is not
disputed that the Internet is a place of ‘information sharing’ and this
sharing of knowledge could lead to certain ideologies being more
prominent and change the thoughts and practices of other cultures.
However, many would argue that although this is inevitable on the
Internet, the Internet cannot control the lifestyle of a person’s life
and beliefs, thus the Internet can only present another person’s
discourse, but cannot force a person’s ideology to change.
Internet Marketing for Lawyers - Advice That Counts
By Michael Merten
Lawyers face the same challenges any business does. In order to
get new business they must market their services, i.e., advertise. And
lawyers deal with the same marketing and advertising challenge every
business does - how to beat the competition. Plus lawyers have to
assume that any Internet or non-Internet marketing or advertising they
do may well produce little or no results for the amount of time and
money they spend -- regardless of what an outside marketing or
advertising advisor may say to the contrary.
Prior to the Internet
the main non-Internet marketing option or advertising choice for any
lawyer was to advertise in the yellow pages. To this day the print
yellow pages contain plenty of colorful, one page display ads that
feature lawyers offering their services, and lawyers pay a lot for these
ads. How effective these ads are is anyone's guess -- it's hard for
your colored, one page display ad to stand out when you have 20 other
lawyers doing the exact same thing! The yellow pages companies,
however, continue to promote their marketing and advertising philosophy
that "bigger is always better" and "everything we sell is an
opportunity," so they often present a lawyer with a non-Internet
marketing and advertising solution that costs plenty but often produces
little.
This line of thinking, along with the use of print yellow
pages in general, has gone the way of the dinosaur at a very accelerated
pace. The yellow pages in print form had their heyday for many
decades, but the population now goes to the Internet for the information
they seek, so most print directories are collecting dust. A lawyer who
advertises in the print yellow pages may well get calls, but they'll
most likely be from vendors using the yellow pages as a cheap source of
leads.
The major paid search providers (pay per click search
engines) tend to offer lawyers Internet marketing and advertising
solutions in a manner similar to the way the yellow pages do with their
print directories. "Bigger is always better," so rather than
realistically discuss with a lawyer a pay per click Internet marketing
and advertising campaign that makes financial sense and produces a
decent ROI, the pay per click providers will tell the lawyer to go for
as many top listing keywords (the most expensive) as their budget will
permit and bid as high as they can. The lawyer may go broke in the
process, but at least they'll get exposure! Many lawyers get into pay
per click as a quick way to get leads but quickly exit a month later
after spending lots of money for Internet marketing and advertising
results that produce nothing but expense.
While pay per click
Internet marketing and advertising is the running favorite of Internet
marketing advertisers worldwide, pay per click advertising for a lawyer
is usually an extremely expensive proposition for what they get. How
much a lawyer is willing to "pay for a lead" takes on a whole new
meaning with pay per click. The cost per click for many lawyer related
keywords, e.g., "personal injury lawyer," "criminal defense lawyer," can
range from $5.00 to $70.00 per click depending on the market, and when
the typical lawyer's conversion rate (the number of clicks it takes to
generate a lead) of one to two percent is factored in, the lawyer can
find themselves paying upwards of $500.00 to $7,000.00 per lead, and a
lead is not a client.
Part of the problem lawyers face when they
work with pay per click (and this translates directly into poor
conversion rates) is that (1) they spend little time creating their pay
per click ads and (2) the ads direct traffic to the lawyer's website.
Any Internet marketing professional who knows something about pay per
click knows you never send pay per click traffic to a website. Instead
you create special pages, i.e., "landing pages" for pay per click
traffic to be directed to. The landing pages perform the job of
convincing traffic to do what the lawyer requires, which is normally to
contact the lawyer via e-mail or by phone.
Legal Internet
directories and portals offer the lawyer a potential Internet marketing
and advertising option because of their popularity and enhanced Internet
visibility. How effective a listing in a legal Internet directory or
portal can be for a lawyer in terms of marketing, advertising and
Internet exposure will depend upon the particular attributes of the
legal Internet directory or portal in question. All things being equal,
legal Internet directories or portals that charge a fee to be listed in
them make more sense as an Internet marketing and advertising choice
than similar sites that offer listings for free. The lawyer has to be
particularly careful, however, when they consider advertising in legal
Internet directories and portals that "look" like they offer a lot --
and a price to go with it -- but for whatever reasons simply do not
produce enough leads for the amount of Internet marketing and
advertising money the lawyer must spend.
Many legal Internet
directories and portals exist that have a very strong Internet presence,
and they are excellent resource centers for lawyers, but this does not
automatically make them good places to advertise. With Internet legal
portals especially it's not how many lawyers the portal attracts but how
many people the Internet legal portal attracts who are searching for
legal services. People have paid thousands of dollars for advertising
in Internet legal portals that have produced nothing in the way of
Internet marketing and advertising results. A very wise idea for any
lawyer who considers advertising in an Internet legal portal is to get
some very accurate user demographics on what kind of specific traffic
the Internet legal portal is actually attracting.
What is a lawyer
supposed to do? Everywhere the lawyer looks, whether the marketing and
advertising media is Internet or non-Internet, considerable financial
risk is involved, and a guarantee that the lawyer will get good, solid
results for the amount of money they spend is often hard to achieve.
Ultimately
the best way for a lawyer to go with Internet marketing and advertising
- the way that will ultimately get them the best long term results for
the money they spend -- is to focus on getting their website to rank
high in organic search results. When all things are considered, people
on the Internet who search for goods and services mainly search for
websites to find their answers. They may look to legal Internet
directories and portals, and if they don't find what they want they may
turn to pay per click listings as a last resort (only about 30% to 40%
of users bother with pay per click) but ultimately people who search the
Internet are looking for websites that provide them with the answers
they seek.
If a lawyer is looking for an Internet marketing and
advertising solution that doesn't require being part of the pay per
click crowd, the lawyer may want to look into pay per phone call
programs. Pay per phone call is like pay per click, but the lawyer does
not pay for a call unless they receive one. And the costs for pay per
phone call are normally substantially less that what the lawyer will pay
for a click in many cases. A smart lawyer may even want to consider
getting involved with several pay per phone call providers with the idea
that between the providers the lawyer will receive enough leads in the
aggregate to make involvement with these programs worth it.
Many
of the Internet marketing and advertising solutions that a lawyer
chooses to look into must be tried on a case by case basis. Absolutely
nothing can be assumed. A pay per click advertising campaign that works
extremely well for the lawyer with one search provider might fail
miserably with another.
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