Group A (W1-2)
what is a Telenovela
A serialized television drama produced primarily in Latin America
What makes places and cultural habits more similar?
Globalization
What is generative AI?
A system that learns patterns from huge amounts of data, used to predict, classify, and generate content
This ethnic group uses mobile phones and conference calls to maintain connections across countries despite not having its own nation state.
Hmong
True or False: Squid games is an example of globalization?
True
What is it called when cultures become increasingly similar due to globalization?
Cultural Convergence
What country has the most Data Centers?
United States
What is the term for a community dispersed across countries that maintains connections through shared histories, identities, and ties to their
original homeland
Diaspora
What is Cultural Proximity?
choosing things that feel familiar and comfortable because they match your own language, values, and lifestyle
Cultures are like pieces in a mosaic. What cultural perspective does this represent?
Cultural Differentialism
How can Data Centers affect the communities where they are built?
Uses a lot of electricity and water, creates a lot of noise, and contributes to carbon emission and waste
What is viewed as an important tool to promote social change and development?
Media/Communication
The reinterpretation of popular US media for Afghan star is an example of?
GLOCALIZATION
What is an example of cultural hybridization?
Cuban sandwich
What is the phenomenon where community members express support for certain policies or projects, provided they are situated away from their own neighborhoods?
Not in my backyard (NIMBY)
This theorist argued that mass communication helped societies transition from “traditional” to “modern.”
Daniel Lerner
What are the four forms of globalization?
Embodied, disembodied, institutional, and objectified
Explain the concept of McDonaldization?
The process of making countries more similar through the spread of global brands, products, and lifestyles
Why do widely spoken African languages remain low-resource?
Oral knowledge (stories are not written down), historical inequality (colonial languages gained stronger positions in government and education), and lack of funding and support to get indigenous language into media
This theory suggests that developing countries should follow the same path of progress as Western capitalist industrial democracies
Modernization theory