Globalization and Deglobalization: Another Dilemma of Post-Modernity

Abstract

This article will investigate the paradoxical and deglobalizing movement of protectionism, of neo-nationalism, and the closure of nation’s politics frontiers, in relation to the opposite movement of the digital media, Internet, that tends to press the populations for the expansion of the contacts, increasingly globalizing, given the high potential of reach and extension of the perception that these means are able to produce in human relations. The aim is to analyze and understand this impasse that amplifies the uncertainties in society, in addition to revealing the influence of digital media in the process of globalization, and its influence on the constitution of the postmodern subject. Understanding the tensions caused by the dilemma between nationalist political intentions and the globalizing media movement will bring one more component, which will reveal motivations for increasing nationalist discourses, xenophobia, and intolerance as other cultures, ideas, and beliefs. The research is theoretical and exploratory, where a bibliographical survey and the observation of the phenomena. As a theoretical research, is expected the production of a text as result, that can provides subsidies to understanding a phenomenon of our times, as well as the production of a material that could provide access to the theories of communication and political organization to other researchers.