Global Culture and Media

Question 1

Refers to the unified style of human knowledge, beliefs, and behavior from which people learn, and the ability to communicate knowledge to the next generations.

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

The development of culture has been mainly influenced by what?

Answer 2

Media

Question 3

This allowed humans to communicate and share information

Answer 3

Language

Question 4

Stages of Development of Media:

Language became the most important tool for exploring the world and the different cultures. It helped people move and settle down. This led to markets, trade, and cross-continental trade routes.

Answer 4

Oral Communication

Question 5

Stages of Development of Media:

This allowed humans to communicate over a larger space and for a much longer duration. It allowed the permanent codification of economic, cultural, religious, and political practice. Knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors were written and made available for transmission to the next generation and to other nations and cultures.

Answer 5

Script

Question 6

This has became a hindrance to oral communication

Answer 6

Distance

Question 7

Stages of Development of Media:

The introduction of the this invention allowed the continuous production, reproduction, and circulation of print materials. Written documents were mass produced which gave everyone access to information that was once available only to the rich, powerful, and religious.

Answer 7

Printing Press

Question 8

Stages of Development of Media:

This is characterized by its use of electricity. It includes the telegraph, telephone, radio, film, and television. The wide reach of these media continues to open up new perspectives in the economic, political, and cultural processes of globalization.

Answer 8

Electronic Media

Question 9

This was used as an avenue for global products to be advertised like Marlboro and Coca-Cola

Answer 9

Radio

Question 10

This was used so countries could watch the US presidential speeches and UN Security Council meetings

Answer 10

Television (analogue-type)

Question 11

T or F: Both radio and newspaper became mediums for people to observe international events

Answer 11

False (radio and television)

Question 12

Stages of Development of Media:

This relies on digital code. It can be created, modified, and stored in any digital electronic device. Digitalized content is transmitted over the internet and computer networks.

Answer 12

Digital Media

Question 13

This is a carrier of culture. It is a tool for the interaction of people with different cultures.

Answer 13

Media

Question 14

T or F: Real media refers to the internet

Answer 14

False (real media = real people)

Question 15

These kinds of people seek the world for cultural products

Answer 15

Marketing people

Question 16

These people facilitate interactions of culture for profit

Answer 16

Managers

Question 17

This term views cultural difference as immutable. As the West and non-Western civilizations interact or are brought in contact through globalization, clash of civilizations such as West and Islam logically follows

Answer 17

Cultural Differentialism

Question 18

This suggests that globalization engenders a growing sameness of cultures.

Answer 18

Cultural Convergence

Question 19

T or F: The culture of the powerful progressive countries does not become the dominant culture

Answer 19

False

Question 20

This suggests that globalization spawns an increasing and ongoing mixing of cultures

Answer 20

Cultural Hybridity

Question 21

Where is the Spanish-based creole language, Chabacano, being spoken in the Philippines?

Answer 21

Zamboanga and Cavite

Question 22

This is a rather new concept brought about by the increased frequency of contact among cultures. This reinforces the fact that local cultures are not weak, static, or fixed; they are built and understood anew each day in a globalized world

Answer 22

Glocalization

Question 23

T or F: Global cultures continue to accommodate and assimilate cultures of the world due to globalization

Answer 23

False (local)

Question 24

T or F: Increase in cultural interactions generated by media results in outcomes that exhibit the vigor of local cultures influenced by the global culture

Answer 24

True