IP Communication Webinar Series #5: The Annual Globalization Workshop “The Future Globalization” (4)
On July 23, 2020, International Program of Communication Science Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) and Uniicoms TV invited Professor Chen and Dr. Masduki in The Annual Globalization Workshop (AGW) with the theme “The Future Globalization.” This workshop is the inaugural workshop program organized by the International Program of Communication UII. This writing is the second writing of Fitriana Ramadhany, our intersnship student, based on her reportage. This is her follow-up article.
Professor Chen said that Covid-19 had five impacts on globalization. It is slowing the process of globalization, warning of the risk of dependence, raising awareness of the fragility of globalization, decoupling from China, and falling net income from globalization. Covid-19 puts a new barrier to globalization by slowing down the process and slowing down the process of mass transportation. She gave an example of the scarcity of masks during the pandemic as one of the risks of production dependence from other countries. In addition, the community groups that felt the most impact of Covid-19 were small traders. This makes people start thinking about how to distribute their wealth fairly within a local or national community.
Then does the impact of Covid-19 slow down globalization make a person reflex on himself? Professor Chen gave several points of explanation regarding this question. First, paying more attention to the costs of globalization rather than simply propagating the benefits of it. At this point, she explained that costs here concentrate more on costs on specific groups in societies such as manufacture jobs, family tolls, and human rights of migrant workers. Second, from cost-reduction thinking to risk-reduction. She explained that in this case included the risk-reduction of implying the self-realization and utterance of heterogeneous cultural identities during cross-cultural communication. Third, the others among or live with us. The point is that we now have to face and know about culture and as others have to utter our existences locally and globally. Fourth and the last, globalization will change. She explained at this point that change is driven by the combination of changes in popular sentiment, government policy, and corporate practices.
Before concluding her presentation, she expressed her hopes regarding the future of globalization, “I think the future of globalization can be seen as more diversified and regional. In addition, we have multilateral directions and multilaterals partners to discuss about the direction of globalization. I think we can focus more on the losers from the previous era of globalization. So that we can pay more attention to each other, the local community, and to produce cultural texts that can be exchanged and understand one another.”
After the presentation session, the next session was filled with discussion sessions. Then finally, the two guest speakers closed the workshop by delivering their final remarks about the dangers of dependency itself. This becomes an important point not only for the community, but also for the government in a country. The two speakers also give final that globalization changed again and transformed during this pandemic. That makes the community must be able to see in other ways to overcome the situation and how important it is to think about what to do in the future.
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Author and Reporter: Fitriana Ramadhany, Student internship of Department of Communication Science, UII. Batch 2016
Editor: A. Pambudi W
