What are the main arguments in the two readings for this week? Which one do you prefer and why?

In the article presented by Charles Ess, it portrays its view towards an "electronic global village." Ess demonstrates inevitably that the global village will eventually occur in the long run. However, in its process there are bound to be conflicts of interest and restrictions. One of the most notable issues is culture and its values, many cultures fear the uprising of globalization through modern technological communication. Many cultures stress that the global village will position itself in a Western culture and other cultures will deteriorate and become part of the Western imperialism. Like many cultures, they tend to be ethnocentric and resist the Western imperialism through globalization in order to preserve their culture. This occurs in such ways like the internet governance of China. Ess attempts to view globalization in another way as oppose to an imperialistic view. It was demonstrated that some cultures preserve their own values and language with the help of globalization by utilizing its expanding modern technology.

For the second article presented by Bettig, the article views imperialism of western culture in a different method. Capitalism is the main value western culture persist in and attempts to globalize this value. Betting argues in a extreme capitalistic culture, the ones that truly benefit are corporations that make extreme profits. With growing powerful corporations around the world, eventually a monopoly will occur and the view of globalization will be viewed from this single corporation.
Betting stresses the power a single corporation can possess with such influence and governance. The article portrays the issues that can arise if corporations become to powerful and monitor all the communication and thus infringing the privacy rights of people around the world.

By looking at both articles, I would prefer the article that was written by Ess and the electronic globalization. I believe Ess's article seems more realistic and of concern compared to Bettig's article. Both demonstrated favorable arguments and concern to various topics but I believe Ess has a more logical reasoning. Western Imperialism is an issue occurring as we speak and cultural perseverance is an ongoing issue. A monopoly corporation and governance is a notable issue worth being a bit concern about but today most governments prevent monopolies from occurring with anti-trust laws to guarantees healthy competition. Internet governance are usually governed by organizations or federal governments and not corporations. Unlike corporations, they're not under the incentive of profit. To me, I see the real interest is in Ess's article of imperialism since it is talking about an ongoing issue rather than a possible issue that may or may not occur.

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