Terminology
The process that is making the world's citizens increasingly interdependent economically, socially, politically, environmentally, and technologically
What is Globalization
CBC
What is Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The combination of beliefs, values, view of history, and language of a people
What is collective identity
There are more than 50 of these spoken in Canada and they can be divided into approximately 11 language groups.
What is Aboriginal Languages
When differences between the values, attitudes, beliefs, customs, and traditions of individuals and groups are being reduced, instead of participating in diverse regional cultures. This is an example of _______________.
What is universalization / monoculture.
When a group or culture gives up their culture and heritage and changes to become part of the dominant culture and does not retain customs from their initial culture, this is known as ___________.
What is assimilation
CanCon
What is Canadian Content
The traits that make up a person's sense of individuality.
What is individual identity
The customs of a family or culture.
What is tradition
Three examples of UNESCO heritage sites located within Alberta discussed in class.
What is Writing On Stone Provincial Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Wood Buffalo National Park and/or Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump Site
A political system in which the law applies equally to all people; that holds free, fair, and frequent elections of candidates from at least two parties; has an independent courts system; and permits the press and other media to function free of government control.
What is Democracy
APTN
What is Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
An ethnic, linguistic, or religious group whose numbers are small compared with those of the dominant culture.
What is minority group.
When people mix traditional arts, mass communication, and popular culture in new ways, this is known as _______________ _______________.
What is cultural hybridization
The number of languages spoken now has declined as a result of what challenges in a global society?
What is the spread/dominance of English in a globalized community and cultural marginalization.
A company that owns or controls production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country. And a prominent American example discussed in class.
What is a transnational (media) corporation and Disney.
CRTC
What is Canadian Radio and Television Commission
Anglophones and Francophones have linguistic rights in Canada which were laid out and protected under what legislation discussed in class?
What is the Canadian Languages Act
An inclusive approach that allows religious or ethnic groups to maintain their distinctive cultures within mainstream society is ___________. And an example from the 1990's discussed in class would be...
What is accommodation and the adaptation to allow for turbans to be worn as part of the uniform of RCMP officers.
These challenges of globalization are the difference in access to up-to-date internet and technology resources and the potential for feeling socially ostracization as a result of an over-dependence and devotion to technologies.
What is the digital divide and techno-isolation
A process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasingly greater shares of the mass media.
What is media concentration.
UNESCO
What is United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
A society in which a diversity of languages, beliefs, traditions, values, religions and other aspects of culture are embedded as part of the foundations of the country; a society that respects and values the individual and collective opinions and identities of all people.
What is pluralistic society.
The change by an individual or group to include aspects of a majority culture within their own different cultural/ethnic identity (while still retaining aspects of their initial identity).
What is acculturation.
A challenge associated with the style of media coverage about global issues, or events/disasters that take place in other parts of the world.
What is media narration/media bias that influences the viewers.