Chapter 1-3 Terms Flashcards
Globalization
The process that is making the world’s citizens increasingly interdependent economically, socially, politically, environmentally, and technologically
Retail Operations
Businesses that sell goods and services to the public
Transnationals
Corporations that operate in two or more countries
Individual Identity
The traits that make up a person’s identity
Collective Identity
The combination of beliefs, values, view of history and language of a people
Pluralistic Society
A society in which a diversity of languages, beliefs, traditions, values, religions, and other aspects of culture are embedded as part of the foundations of a country
Media Consolidation
Mergers of media transnationals that result in a concentration of ownership
Society
A group of people who form an ordered community centered on kinship, an ideology, a religion, or a particular worldview
Global Village
The entire world and its inhabitants are becoming one large community interconnected by technology, particularly television
Democracy
A political system in which the law applies equally to all people
Universalization of Popular Culture
The production by media transnationals of the majority of TV programs, films, etc. that are consumed by a vast world audience
Hybridization
The blending of media communications technologies resulting in new modes of expression and cross curricular consumption
Media Transnational
Mass media corporation that produces media in two or more countries
Canadian Content
The amount of Canadian participation in Canada’s broadcasting industry: directing, writing, cinematography, etc.
Economic Globalization
Acts of globalization that relate to the economy: trade, imports, exports, money (ex: Transnational Companies like Walmart)
