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This term describes the spread and influence of culture, ideas, and technology across borders.
What is cultural globalization?
These are the two main types of identities we have.
What is Individual and Collective identity?
This is an independent tribunal that regulates and supervises Canada's communications system.
What is the CRTC? (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)
The use of technology to integrate media together into a common platform.
What is Media Convergence?
This term refers to the economic idea where businesses are able to move production to countries with lower labor costs, creating a global division of labor.
What is outsourcing?
When the culture of the minority group is absorbed by the majority.
What is Assimilation?
This is one of our main modes of expression, and is how an individual absorbs the collective thought processes of a people.
What is language?
This is a Canadian broadcast network that provides programming created by or about Indigenous peoples
What is APTN? (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network)
The ownership of newspapers and other media in the hands of a few large corporations.
What is Media Concentration?
A company that is based in one country while developing and manufacturing its products, or delivering its goods and services, in more than one country.
What are transnational corporations?
This term refers to the cultural blending that occurs when two or more distinct cultural traditions interact and influence each other.
What is Hybridization?
A block of stores/restaurants in Bangladesh have been replaced by a McDonalds, an Apple store, and a Disney store.
What is Americanization?
This is a Canadian organization that advocates for First Nations people and communities.
What is the AFN? (Assembly of First Nations)
The gap that separates people who do — and do not — have access to up-to-date digital technology.
What is Digital Divide?
Canada has implemented these to protect artists, performers, songs, movies, and literature.
What are Culture Content Laws?
The process by which an individual or group adopts the practices and values of one culture while still retaining their own culture of origin.
What is Acculturation?
Promoting collective identity, representation, and celebrating diversity are examples of this.
What is affirming one's identity?
This is a human rights document that establishes minimum standards for the well-being of Indigenous peoples around the world
What is UNDRIP? (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)
Blue jeans, Soccer/Football, The Internet and English are all examples of this.
What is universalization?
This is a group of 88 states, member governments and observers that share French as a common language, as well as values in common.
What is La Francophonie?
This is a potential consequence of globalization, causing people to become more and more similar.
What is Homogenization?
This is when technology enables people to pursue their own interests, while also potentially reducing their sense of community.
What is Techno-isolationism?
This is an agency that promotes international cooperation in education, science, culture, and communication.
What is UNESCO? (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
This refers to the efforts aimed at preserving and reviving cultural practices, traditions, languages, and customs that are at risk of being lost or forgotten
What is Cultural Revitalization?
A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
What are tariffs?