The Role of Television in the Worldwide Localization Trend A Model for Representation of Reality in TV

Today’s world is witnessing transformational changes and developments, all of which understandable in the pragmatic contexts of identity, border, geography (location) and time. Identities are fragmented, borders are transgressed, locations and time are squeezed together. To give an understanding of global TV coordinates, the present article takes its point of departure in a theoretical construct named “RIPH” model and tries to depict a picture of local and global television’s role at the era of globalization and, finally, shares the results with 20 Communications researchers and scholars for consultation. “RIPH” stands for the initials of the four words, Reality, Identity, Power and Hyper reality. The article examines television in terms of the abovementioned concepts, and studies local and global television components in terms of the proposed model, i.e. Lozenge of local TVs Functions (RIPH model).