Media
Modern popular culture transmitted via mass media and aimed particularly at younger people.
Pop Culture
This describes the clothing, beliefs, food, language, and religion that people have.
Culture
The blending of media and communications technologies resulting in new modes of expression and cross-cultural consumption.
Hybridization.
A type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people.
Slang or Jargon
Mergers of media transnationals result in a concentration of ownership.
Media Convergence
The dimension of life that concerns the production and exchange of goods, services, money, and resources.
Economics
An inclusive approach that allows religious or ethnic groups to maintain their distinctive cultures within mainstream society.
Accomodation
Clothes, especially fine or formal ones.
Attire
The amount of Canadian participation in Canada’s broadcasting.
CanCon/ Canadian Content
The dimension of life that concerns societal and cultural institutions.
Social
The absorption of a minority group by a dominant group.
Assimilation
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Stereotype
The action of making or becoming more varied.
Diversification
The dimension of life that concerns governments’ interactions with individuals, groups, and other government.
Politics
The pushing of a group to the ‘margins’ of society, where they hold little social, political, or economic power.
Marginalization
A process through which unique cultures regain a sense of identity, such as through promoting heritage languages or reviving traditions and customs.
Cultural Revitalization
An Aboriginal Canadian television network that produces programming by and for Indigenous peoples.
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network/ APTN
Corporations that operate in two or more countries; also people who are citizens of more than one country.
Transnational/ multinational
The trend toward uniformity, as with world popular culture as a result of globalization.
Homogenization
The production by media transnationals of the majority of television programs, films, magazines and so on that are consumed by a vast world audience.
Universalization