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World of Ideas Flashcards

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explores the relationship between the media, culture and globalization. The course approaches past and current challenges concerning international communication and explores and problematizes the power of media representation.

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Global Media Culture

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It is the process by which the world is becomingincreasingly interconnected as a result of massively increased trade and cultural exchange.

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Globalization

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provide an extensive transnational transmission of cultural product and they contribute to the formation of communicative networks and social structures

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Media

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Language allowed humans to communicate and share information.
Language became the most important tool for exploring the world and the different cultures.

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Oral communication

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It allowed humans to Communicate over a larger space and for a much longer duration.
It allowed the permanent codification of economic, cultural and political practice

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Script

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It allowed the continuous production, reproduction, and circulation of print materials.

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Printing press

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It includes the telegraph, and telephone, radio ,film and television.
The wide range of these media continue to open up new perspectives in economic, political, and cultural processes of globalization.

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Electronics media

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It allows the advertisement of products and online business transactions.

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Digital media

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The process with which the local market opens up to the global economy.
itcan involve the processes of product standardization and technology development centralization.

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global integration

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refers to the aspect of globalization that has brought industries in a number of societies as well as individuals with access to cell-phones that can be used to produce high quality videos to the fore in the entertainment and information dissemination industries.

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global cultural production

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process that produce change inside a group or system

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Dynamics

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– is dynamic and diffuse means its complex
– fluid rather than static

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Culture

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everything that we create and share as part of our lives in the place where we live or work.

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Local culture

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is a set of shared experiences, norm, symbols and ideas that unite people at global level

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Global culture

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creating new degrees of connectedness among economies and playing an ever-larger role in determining the fate of nations, companies, and individuals; to be unconnected is to fall behind

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Global flows

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The three perspectives on global cultural flows

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  1. Cultural differentialism
  2. Hybridization
  3. Convergence
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The spread and fragmentation of religion all over the world has continued through globalization, as religions have expanded from one place to another

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the relation of religion to globalization

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is a collection of cultural systems, beliefs systems, and world views that relate humanity to spirituality and to moral values?

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RELIGION

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serves as the source of globalization’s greatest resistance and as a haven for those standing in position to its ubiquitous yet often subtle power.

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Religion

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a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements

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Religion

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Religion Nowadays

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  1. It’s no longer a set of beliefs that people arrive by reflection.
  2. It’s a symbolic system which carries our identity.
  3. It marks crucial moments in the life cycle with rituals.
  4. It provides powerful mechanisms for psychological and social tension.
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Role of Religion Today

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  1. It gives meaning and purpose to life
  2. Guidance on how to live life
  3. Gives people hope, faith, and belief for a better future during hard times
  4. Motivate people to work for positive social change.
    5.Promoting morals and values in society
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Common Elements Religion

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Beliefs
Rituals
Organization
Sacred Objects
Symbolism

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a state or habit of mind in which trust, or confidence is placed in some person or thing

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BELIEFS

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All religions observes ceremonial practices

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RITUALS

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it use to represent ideas or qualities of Religion

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SYMBOLISM

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refers to a collection of people, who are involved in pursuing defined objectives, without it no religion can survive.

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ORGANIZATION

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Every religion has some objects which they believe most important or supernatural.

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SACRED OBJECTS

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