GLOBAL MEDIA CULTURES

Question 1

corporations or entities globally engaged in media production and/or distribution

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GLOBAL MEDIA

Question 2

international community formed by the contasts interaction between citizens of various country and bound by shares cultural experiences, transcending geographical distance and actual physical contact

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GLOBAL VILLAGE

Question 3

refers to a community formed by like-minded individuals bound by common interests, shared aspiration and collective identity. coined by BENEDICT ANDERSON

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IMAGINED COMMUNITY

Question 4

gap in technological skills between those who have access and those who do not

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DIGITAL DIVIDE

Question 5

“Globalization could not occur without media.
Globalization and media act in concert and that
the two have partnered throughout the whole of
human history. From cave paintings to papyrus to
printing presses to television to Facebook, media
have made globalization possible.”

Answer 5

JACK LULE

Question 6

Advances in media, such as television, computers,
and cell phones, combined with changes in
migration patterns, changed the world. The two
‘diacritics’ - media and migration - fundamentally
changed human life and gave rise to
globalization.”

Answer 6

ARJUN APPADURAI

Question 7

elecnts onto nake globalization possible according to Arjun Appadurai

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MEDIA AND MIGRATION

Question 8

people were talking about the harmful
influence of comic books, radio, and film. They were
worried about young people reading violent comics,
voters hearing propaganda over the radio, and
couples disappearing into dark movie theatres

Answer 8

1920s

Question 9

Globalization combined with the evolution of
media technology created the conditions under
which the globe itself can now be understood as…

Answer 9

IMAGINED COMMUNITY

Question 10

FIVE TIME PERIODS OF

MEDIA EVOLUTION

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ORAL
SCRIPT
PRINT
ELECTRONIC
DIGITAL

Question 11

the oldest and most enduring of all

media

Answer 11

ORAL COMMUNICATION

Question 12

speech developed into language, this allowed
humans to cooperate. it allowed people to transmit knowledge,
information, culture, and beliefs.

Answer 12

ORAL COMMUNICATION

Question 13

Language relies on human

memory which is limited and not always perfect

Answer 13

TRUE

Question 14

Language was essential but imperfect. Distance
causes trouble for oral communication. Time also
causes difficulties.

Answer 14

TRUE

Question 15

allowed humans to communicate and share knowledge and ideas over much larger spaces and across much longer times

Answer 15

SCRIPT

Question 16

This started the ‘information revolution’ and transformed communities, markets, governments,and societies.

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PRINTING PRESS

Question 17

changed the very nature of knowledge. It preserved and standardized knowledge.

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PRINTING PRESS

Question 18

It encouraged the challenging of political and

religious authority because of its ability to circulate competing views.

Answer 18

PRINTING PRESS

Question 19

it encourage the rise of literacy

Answer 19

PRINTING PRESS

Question 20

they require electricity to use

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ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Question 21

The telegraph, telephone, radio, film, and television are the usual media under…

Answer 21

ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Question 22

it continued to facilitate the economic, political, and social processes of globalization

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ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Question 23

they are most often electronic media that rely on digital codes - the long combinations of 0s and 1s that represent information.

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DIGITAL MEDIA

Question 24

Disney, Time Warner, News Corporation, Viacom, Vivendi, and Bertelsmann are estimated to own and/or control
nearly 75% of the global media.

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TRUE

Question 25

at the forefront of promoting the dominant discourses of globalization

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MAINSTREAM MEDIA

Question 26

through this, Western lifestyles and

cultures are promoted

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MAINSTREAM MEDIA

Question 27

according to him, media firms are in fact “manufacturing consent” and “manufacturing content” in favour of globalization.

Answer 27

NOAM CHOMSKY

Question 28

according to him, media firms are in fact “manufacturing consent” and “manufacturing content” in favour of globalization.

Answer 28

NOAM CHOMSKY

Question 29

Majority of these mainstream pro-globalization
channels are broadcast in English - the language
of the US, or a European language such as
German or French.Their influence holds sway
among elite circles of developing countries more
especially that only segments of the middle class
and the elite can afford subscription to cable
television.

Answer 29

TRUE

Question 30

It is not an exaggeration to say that local elites are

more attuned to Western media and ideas than local ones.

Answer 30

TRUE

Question 31

they adhere to Western analyses, they watch
what Westerners view, and they speak the language of globalization, fashioning themselves as the world’s cosmopolitan and global citizens

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TRUE

Question 32

Parallel to what the mainstream channels do,
Hollywood also did a good job - and is still doing a
good one - in fashioning the world according to
the West’s image and likeness.

Answer 32

TRUE

Question 33

local culture are products of globalization or global culture

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TRUE

Question 34

it refers to the processes by which one’s cultures, experiences, values and ideas are disseminated

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CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION

Question 35

it has also allowed local and global cultural production to intersect. Local and global entities engaged in cultural production are both partners and rivals under globalization

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GLOBALIZATION

Question 36

because of the soreasof entertainment, value systems are threatened

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TRUE

Question 37

With the unparalleled acceleration of labor,
capital, and information mobility in the age of
globalization, local cultures, languages and
national identities either influence or become
influenced by other worldviews and expressive
forms, resulting in???

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CULTURAL HOMOGENIZATION

Question 38

Because of the youth’s exposure to the
dominant cultures through media and other
platforms, values that are highly regarded in
their local culture corrode and get replaced by
Western notions (eg. beauty, sexuality, and
individualism).

Answer 38

TRUE

Question 39

People are motivated to impersonate their
slender, blonde, Caucasian Western
counterparts with the false belief that these
characteristics are dominant and hence,
more “beautiful”.

Answer 39

TRUE

Question 40

they believe that cultural globalization gave us our personal freedom, engagement in free trade and democractic freedom

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OPTIMISTIC HYPERGLOBALIZERS

Question 41

• they argue that a homogenous global culture is
emerging, premised on Anglo-American values of
consumerism and capitalism

• overwhelming more vulnerable cultures
and contributing to perceptions that globalization is in fact ‘Americanization’ or ‘Westernization’.

• the cultural dimensions of globalization amount
to little more than a cultural form of neo-imperialism spearheaded by the American ’empire’.

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PESSIMISTIC HYPERGLOBALIZERS

Question 42

local cultures party influence global culture

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TRUE

Question 43

media & migration facilitated the globalization

Answer 43

DIACRITIC