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892). This Western ethnocentric view is equivalent to the private interests that control media conglomerates such as Google and its Google Earth, which underscores the degree of inequity that ultimately is found when these new media conglomerates garner power within and over individual nation states.
The conceit that Kumar utilizes repeatedly throughout his essay to emphasize the thesis that new media enables private interests to slowly dissolve the traditional governmental authority of nation states is that such media is akin to a military, with its advancements in countries akin to conventional military takeovers. In much the same way that Google Earth leverages its authority and technology (in the form of aid and increased trade within a needy foreign country), "military interventions conducted around the world in the name of universal values of 'democracy' and 'freedom'" (Kumar, 2010, p.157) do the same thing.
The sense of power that new media presents to users that can help to undermine the authority of nation states also involves evidence that was not available at the time that Kumar wrote his essay. There has been significant social and political turmoil in many countries in Africa in the past two years. Some of the more notable countries in which there have been revolutions include Egypt and Libya. The involvement of technology in these revolts certainly played a pivotal role in subverting the authority...
The primary boon of his essay is that he allows the reader to get an inside glimpse at who is controlling such technology, which is in effect privately owned in the case of conglomerates such as Google Earth and which is leveraged in order to surmount the authority of conventional nations. The authority and hegemony of the media, that of the private corporations who operate the author's conception of network power and the countries in which they exist, is a ubiquitous tool that appears to be serving its own end. That end, as Kumar suggests, is the ultimate eradication of the system of nation states for a sort of homogenization of political authority -- which is akin to that of cultural authority referenced in Tomlinson's essay. There are no factors that the author may have overlooked when presenting and adequately demonstrating his argument.
References
Kumar, S. (2010). "Google Earth and the nation state: sovereignty in the age of new media." Global Media and Communication. 6 (2): 154-176.
Tomlinson, J. (1995). "Homogenisation and globalization." History of European Ideas. 20 (4-6): 891-897.
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