Vocabulary
When corporations operate in two or more countries.
What is a transnational corporation?
These are the four dimensions of globalization.
What are social, economic, political and environmental?
What are: technology, media, education, business, communication, trade, travel, language, TNC's, the environment,
This is the unique combination of characteristics, beliefs, and experiences that make you who you are.
What is individual identity
These are at least two positive outcomes of globalization through media.
What are: promotes cultural diversity, preserves traditions through documentation, enables cultural exchange, mpowers minority voices
The idea that the entire world and its inhabitants are becoming one large community interconnected by technology.
What is a global village?
Trade, investment and technology are drivers of this dimension of globalization.
What is economic globalization?
It's purpose is to makes English and French the two official languages of the country. This includes the fact that the government has to provide services in both languages, and people have the right to communicate with the government in either English or French.
What is the Official Languages Act?
This is how you see yourself as part of a group; the shared sense of belonging you feel with others who have similar characteristics, beliefs, or experiences.
What is collective identity?
These are at least two negatives of globalization through media.
What are:
lobalization can dilute local cultures, can spread stereotypes, can cause an overemphasis on mainstream culture, can lead to cultural hyomogenization...
The uniform global popular culture that results from globalization.
What is monoculture?
These are examples of what dimension of globalization: the United Nations (UN), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union (EU), and the International Criminal Court (ICC
What is political globalization?
This happens when people from different cultures share their ideas, traditions, and ways of life.
What is cultural exchange?
These are two positive effects of globalization on identity.
What are: cultural exchange, economic opportuities, ...
This is two ways that the CRTC can help protect culture through media.
What are: create Canadian content rules, provide funding support, provide language protection, provide public broadcasting, protect diversity in media
The production by media transnationals of the majority of television programs, films, magazines and so on that are consumed by a vast world audience.
What is the universilization of popular culutre?
Cultural exchange, communication, education, social norms, consumer choices and employment are just some examples of this dimension of globalization.
What is social globalization?
This occurs when people mix cultural forms, genres, or styles to create something new.
What is hybridization?
These are two negative effects of globalization on culture.
This is a negative result of the convergence of media.
What is: control what the public has access to?
The pushing of a group to the "margins" of society, where they hold little social, political, or economic power
What is marginalization?
Issues like climate change, deforestation, and pollution are all factors within this dimension of globalization
What is environmental globalization?
These are three ways in which cultural exchange are positives.
What are: provides goods from all over the world, improves working conditions and human right, can be a force for positive change, can improve the quality of life for all, can address world problems, such as poverty and climate change...
These are two reasons why fair and accurate representation of culture in media are important.
What are: reflects diversity, promotes understanding, inspires positive role models, preserves traditions, global connection, promotes representation...
This happens when there is a gap between people who have access to technology (like the internet, computers, and smartphones) and those who don’t.
What is the digital divide?