Media & Identity
Any form in which communication occurs, from television to the Internet.
What is Media?
Government policies, like Canada's CRTC regulations, designed to preserve a country's culture.
What is Cultural Protectionism?
The idea that individuals have rights and responsibilities to the global society as a whole.
What is Global Citizenship?
The belief that ideas and technology should be free and accessible to all through sharing.
What is the Open Source Movement?
The basic rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled, based on inherent dignity.
What are Human Rights?
The gap between those who have easy access to communication technology and those who do not.
What is the Digital Divide?
These rules require private TV licenses to achieve specific levels of Canadian-made programming.
What are Canadian Content/Cancon Guidelines?
Using intentional action, such as protests or lobbying, to bring about social or political change.
What is Activism?
A famous online encyclopedia that is a prime example of the open source movement.
What is Wikipedia?
This UN convention established that children are individuals with rights, not possessions of parents.
What is the Convention on the Rights of the Child?
This metaphor compares globalization to a fictional race that forcibly assimilates other cultures.
What are the "United States of Borg"?
The belief that American popular culture is overwhelming other cultures worldwide.
What is Americanization?
An organized refusal to buy a product or deal with a company as a form of protest.
What is a Boycott?
Products of intelligence, like software or inventions, that have commercial value and legal protection.
What is Intellectual Property?
This group of five Alberta women fought in 1929 to have women legally declared "persons."
Who were the Famous Five?
The tendency of media to present information from a specific perspective, sometimes masking its true message.
What is Media Bias?
This term describes a society that celebrates differences as a way to enrich the "social fabric."
What is Pluralism?
The moral, legal, or social force that binds individuals to their obligations.
What is Responsibility?
This movement shows how design can solve humanitarian problems, like a bicycle ambulance in Malawi.
What is Massive Change?
A form of government where power is held by the people through participation and fair elections.
What is Democracy?
Media that is used to communicate with large numbers of people, usually at a national or global scale.
What is Mass Media?
A strategy where a minority culture makes small changes to fit in with the dominant culture while keeping its core beliefs.
What is Accommodation?
This movement believes that coffee producers in developing countries should receive equitable pay.
What is Fair Trade?
The belief that ideas belong only to the individuals who invented them and they should profit from them.
What is the opposite of the open source movement?
The permanent international court that investigates and prosecutes individuals for human rights abuses.
What is the International Criminal Court / ICC?