Vocabulary
How people make sense of themselves and how they see themselves at different scales
What is identity?
Access to information centers creates what?
Who created Facebook?
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
Which of the following is an example of time–space compression in the modern world?
a. a migrant caravan moving north from Central America to the United States
b. a website making it possible to order products and have them delivered the next day
c. an intensification of flooding along a coast in response to sea-level rise
d. a switch from gasoline-powered to hybrid automobiles
e. the location of dairy farms in rural areas
What is B: A website making it possible to order products and have them delivered the next day
True or False: While social networks have good aspects, such as disseminating important developments, sharing different ideas, and organizing socio-political events, they also can make it easier to spread false messages, fake news, and negativity such as racism, hatred, and planning terrorist attacks.
True
A socially constructed identity that is imagined because the people in the group will never meet each other and simply believe they have a similarity and shared connection
What is imagined community?
The original “backbone” of economic globalization was what?
What is trade?
Thought of the concept of imagined community
Who is Benedict Anderson?
True or False: The development of digital communications is rapidly displacing the desire for face-to-face interaction.
False
The most important nodes in global service networks are:
a. microbloggers
b. seats of government (capitals)
c. transport hubs
d. centers of secondary economic activity
e. global cities
What is E: Global cities
Growing gap in access to Internet and communication technologies between connected and remote places
What is digital divide?
Depends on whether funding is available, what kind of memorial is built, who or what is being remembered, whether a site is socially contested and how people think about the site
Creation of permanent memorial in a particular place
Explains that globalization is fragmented and its flows are chaotic in terms of origins and destinations
Who is Andrew Kirby?
The roots of globalization can be traced to:
a. trade over substantial distances
b. conflicts between world regions
c. the invention of the telephone
d. the rise of e-commerce
e. the industrial revolution
What is A: Trade over substantial distances
True or False: Many major media organizations have become more vertically integrated.
True
Cross-promotion of vertically integrated goods
What is synergy?
Agreement among international financial institutions that policies opening markets in lower income countries would lead to economic development
What is the Washington Consensus?
Defines networks as “interconnected nodes” without a center
Who is Manuel Castellis?
Each of the following was primarily a product of the modern telecommunications revolution except:
a. the embrace of a more global identity by an increasing number of people
b. the personalization of events occurring in faraway places
c. the development of strong attachments to the places where people live
d. the growth in awareness of events occurring in distant places
e. all of the above
What is C: The development of strong attachments to the places where people live
Which of the following allows individuals to post their thoughts, photos, and experiences with no cost?
a. A notebook
b. microblogs
c. Myspace
d. suprasocial applications
e. Smith's social media model
What is B: Microblogs
Projects designed to incorporate local knowledge, input, and solutions with the goal of enabling locals to decide what development means for them and how it should be achieved
What are the differences between vertical and horizontal integration?
What is: Vertical integration is when one company controls all of the aspects of production and selling. There is not much separation. Horizontal production is when there are multiple subsidiary companies that serve the same needs but they are all owned by one parent company
Geographer who examined the “spontaneous shrines” created at places where loss occurred and at places that represent loss
Who is Kenneth Foote?
The Washington Consensus refers to a Western-dominated effort:
a. to restrict the flow of goods to benefit Western interests
b. to reduce the digital divide among peoples around the world
c. to promote a global trading network with the United States as its central node
d. to promote the global privatization of state-owned entities and liberalize trade
e. to spread democracy globally
What is D: To promote the global privatization of state-owned entities and liberalize trade
The involvement of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in development initiatives:
a. usually means that core–periphery power relations are removed from the picture
b. typically means that international financial institutions are also part of the picture
c. in many cases helps to foster participatory development
d. usually occurs only when governments have already taken steps to address problems
e. usually leads to their failure
What is C: In many cases helps to foster participatory development