Lecture 8: Globalization Thru Media Flashcards
What is the term used to describe ways to connect, share, relate, and mobilize across geographic, political, economic, social, and cultural divides?
Global communication
Media can be broken into two main categories:
Broadcast and print
What media includes all types of publications, including newspapers, journals, magazines, books, and reports?
Print media
What is the oldest type of media?
Print media
What media refers to radio and TV?
Broadcast media
When did broadcast media start?
At the beginning and middle of the 20th century
What is rapidly emerging as viable and major channels of communication?
Internet
What does the term viable mean in business?
It means capable of generating profits for many years
What was the first social network to surpass 1 billion monthly active users?
What was the fastest independently launched site to reach 10 million unique monthly visitors?
Advantages of Social Media for the society?
- Connectivity
- Education
- Help
- Information and updates
- Promotion
- Noble cause
- Awareness
- Helps government and agencies fight crime
- Improves business reputation
- Help in building communities
Disadvantages of Social Media for the society
- Negative impact on children
- No life without a phone
- Reduces family intimacy
- Lacks emotional connection
- It changes lifestyle habits, and it is sleep disruption
- Privacy problems
What is a process by which various cultures, societies, and economies through a global network of trade and communication become integrated in all respects?
Globalization
What plays a very important role in shaping human minds?
Media
What is a section of the media determined to reach a greater audience?
Mass media
What is the most visible effect of globalization in media?
Widespread communication
What plays a role in educating the people on political parties, international happenings, entertainment, glamorous celebrity gossip, and sport events?
Press media
What is highlighted by the television through advertisements and the new channels giving updates on the share market, brokers, and stocks?
Economical aspects
What are focused by the television through movies, serials, reality shows, and advertisements?
Cultural and traditional issues
What is one of the easiest and cheapest media source?
Radio
What is the biggest advancement of the radio as a means of media globalization?
It can be understood by even an illiterate person and can cater a large number of people
What remained as one of the methods of controlling people and their recreational time?
Media
What is a section of the media determined to reach a greater audience?
Mass media
