THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

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culture is learned from our homes and our communities through direct instruction from our parents or through observation and participation in community affairs.

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Cultural socialization

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sharing different ideas, traditions, and knowledge with someone who may be coming from a completely different background than your own.

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Cultural exchange

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it is for us to interpret the other culture using our own frame of mind and negotiate which aspect of this culture align with ours.

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Acculturation

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is a process in which an individual adopts, acquires and adjusts to a new cultural environment as a result of being placed into a new culture, or when another culture is brought to someone.

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Accommodation

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the various beliefs, behaviors, languages, practices and expressions considered unique to members of a specific ethnicity, race or national origin.

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Cultural differentiation

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efers to the convergence of different elements of various cultures. These elements, such as food, language, fashion, or music, are modified from one culture to adhere to cultural norms of another. Such hybridization occurs when people of various cultures move to areas with different cultures.

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Cultural hybridization

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way of life manifested in tangible objects and intangible ideas we hold dear.

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Culture

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culture that emerges due to the proliferation of mass media, the intersection between media and culture.

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Media culture

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is the process by which two or more cultures begin to blend together resulting in the sharing of values, beliefs, customs and behavior.

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Cultural convergence

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s the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society’s majority group or assimilate the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.

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Cultural Assimilation

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refers most broadly to the exercise of domination in cultural relationships in which the values, practices, and meanings of a powerful foreign culture are imposed upon one or more native culture.

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Cultural imperialism

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Evolution of Media and Globalization

speech has been with us for at least 200,000 years. When speech developed into language, Homo sapiens had developed a medium that would set them apart from other species and allow them to cover and conquer the world.

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Oral Communication

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Evolution of Media and Globalization

as the very first writing-script allowed humans to communicate and share knowledge and ideas over much larger spaces and across much longer times.

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Script

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Evolution of Media and Globalization

with the advent of printing press first made with movable wooden blocks in China and then with movable metal type by Johannes Guttenberg in Germany, reading material suddenly was cheaply made and easily circulated.

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Printing press

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Evolution of Media and Globalization

electronic media refer to any equipment or tool used in communication that require electromagnetic energy-electricity. Ex. Telegraph, telephone, radio, film and television.

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Electronic media

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Evolution of Media and Globalization

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

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Digital media

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Democracy and political culture.
The experience of modernity in a worldwide culture.

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Cultural Globalization Processes

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Socialization and the development of cultural character.

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Cultural Globalization Processes

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Mediated communities and activity.

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Cultural Globalization Processes

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Democracy and political culture.

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Cultural Globalization Processes