Global Media

Question 1

How does the world see the U.S?

Answer 1

The country is big, portions are big, we have a lot of food and waste a lot of food we drive everywhere and are nicer than expected. We are proud and we show it

Question 2

How did media become global?

Answer 2

By walking, horse riding etc. Across boarders, By shipping British Papers to colonies and by telegraph (1837)

Question 3

How did media become global with technology?

Answer 3

By radio and Tv (1890s), by the satellites (1957, sputnik) and by the internet (1980s/1990s)

Question 4

Clandestine radio

Answer 4

Indigenous, Exogenous, Pirate

Question 5

Pirate Radio

Answer 5

Illegally operated stations operating offshore, subsidized by advertisers, a tool to reach consumers and an alternative for listeners who were tired of dull and B-Boring-C

Question 6

Media Follows Politics

Answer 6

Major Euro[ean powers use shortwave to connect to their “colonies”

Question 7

Anti-Government Radio Stations

Answer 7

Broadcasts challenge repression

WWII and Cold War

Question 8

Voice of America

Answer 8

U.S begins in 1940s, counter enemy propaganda, spread messages about democracy and less military, more social

Question 9

Todays Content with Voice of America

Answer 9

Propaganda, Journalism

Question 10

Al Jazeera English

Answer 10

Started in the 1990s by a sheikh.
Goal was to support democracy in censored world of Arab media.
Controversy – “terror TV”

Question 11

The Global View

Answer 11

Cartoon Network-145 countries-14 languages
Nickeloden-320 million households
No.1 at the box Office in China-SpongeBob

Question 12

What are rules in different countries?

Answer 12

40% of french radio must be French, No Western Music in Iran, No beet or bars in Simpsons in the Middle East, No American Hip-Hop in Jamaica

Question 13

Four Concepts of Media

Answer 13

Western, Developments, Revolutionary, and Authoritarianism

Question 14

Western

Answer 14

Responsibility to citizens, Profits AND public service, some government restraints and U.S and Europe
Ex: BBC

Question 15

Development Concept

Answer 15

Government, media are partners, media assist in planned, beneficial growth, some censorship and focus on education, health, forming, Literacy

Question 16

Revolutionary Concepts

Answer 16

End government monopoly of information, organize opposition to power, destroy the legitimacy of current government and topple current government

Question 17

Authoritarianism Concept

Answer 17

Media Serve Government, media promote government policies, educate citizens, government pays for TV

Question 18

What is cultural imperialism?

Answer 18

Invasion of a local culture by a powerful foreign country though mass media

Question 19

What does media look like in the U.S?

Answer 19

U.S dominates in exporting broadcast programs, U.S flooded the market with cheap entertainment. We “conquer” through media, “soft power?”

Question 20

Are there concerns?

Answer 20

An assault on human dignity? Limit on free expression? For-profit global monopoly?

Question 21

Cultural Survival

Answer 21

U.S media (news) dominate

Western values become the norm and cultures disappear, countries lack sufficient means to produce their own media

Question 22

Good things about Global Village

Answer 22

people will adapt, negotiate products in to their cultures

Question 23

Bad things about Global Village

Answer 23

a new “cold war” between American culture and the rest of the world