Media & Globalization
Systems used to communicate information and entertainment to large audiences.
What is media?
Participating in the larger society while maintaining important parts of your original cultural identity.
What is integration?
Pressure or policies that cause a group to give up its culture and adopt the dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
Protections allowing individuals or groups to use, learn, or receive services in a particular language.
What are linguistic rights?
The increasing interconnectedness and interdependence of people and countries around the world.
What is globalization?
Digital tools that allow people to communicate rapidly across great distances.
What is communication technology?
Adopting some elements of another culture through contact while continuing to maintain your own culture.
What is acculturation?
When a group is pushed toward the edges of society and has reduced access to opportunities, power, or participation.
What is marginalization?
Government rules regulating how particular languages are used, protected, or promoted.
What are language laws?
People from different cultures interact and share foods, music, traditions, ideas, and other cultural practices.
What is cultural exchange?
Marshall McLuhan's idea that communication technology makes the world seem smaller and increasingly interconnected.
What is the global village?
Changing policies, institutions, or practices so people with different identities can participate without abandoning important aspects of their identity.
What is accommodation?
Cultures becoming increasingly similar as the same products, entertainment, brands, and lifestyles spread internationally.
What is cultural homogenization?
Efforts to restore, strengthen, or renew cultural traditions and practices.
What is cultural revitalization?
A musician combines Punjabi bhangra with Western hip-hop to create a new musical style.
What is cultural hybridization?
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and similar platforms allow cultural trends to spread internationally within hours. What major force of globalization does this demonstrate?
What is a social media?
Publicly expressing, celebrating, or strengthening pride in one's identity.
What is affirmation of identity?
Local businesses and entertainment decline while the same international brands, music, movies, and fashion become increasingly common.
What is cultural homogenization?
Efforts specifically designed to restore or strengthen a language whose use has declined.
What is linguistic revitalization?
A student watches Korean television, follows American influencers, eats traditional foods from their family's culture, and listens to Canadian artists. What larger process helps explain these connections?
What is globalization?
A Canadian teenager regularly encounters American entertainment, Korean music, Japanese anime, and Indian creators through the same online platforms. Explain one way media is influencing identity.
It is exposing individuals to cultural ideas and influences from around the world that may become part of their identity.
A newcomer learns English, works in the community, participates in Canadian society, and continues speaking Punjabi and celebrating important family traditions.
What is integration?
Explain the key difference between assimilation and integration.
Assimilation involves giving up or losing important elements of one's original culture to fit into a dominant culture; integration allows participation in the larger society while maintaining important elements of one's original identity.
Rules requiring broadcasters or other media providers to feature a certain amount of domestically produced programming are an example of this.
What is cultural content legislation?
A community creates immersion programs, develops language-learning apps, records Elders speaking their ancestral language, and encourages young people to use the language. Identify the most specific concept.
What is linguistic revitalization?