MASC 151 FINAL REVIEW (Quizzes and Jeopardy)

For the most part, modernization and globalization have succeeded in producing the predicted economic and social change

False

It is thought that the Arab political system is only now developed enough to encompass truth.

False

The ITU expresses no concern for the growing gap between the "information rich" and "the information poor." There is no digital divide.

False

The Saudi royal family controls all Arab media outlets.

False

The U.S. is a peripheral nation.

False

The recent Qatar crisis bolstered Al Jazeera's standing in the Arab world and secured its future.

False

UK politician Boris Johnson changed his perspective about Brexit. Johnson is supporting closer ties with the European Union.

False

Vice President Mike Pence is being praised for his efforts to have diplomatic talks with North Korean officials at the Winter Olympic Games.

False

More than half the nations in the world still place some restrictions on journalists or media outlets.

True

One challenge of Brexit for the UK is that international banks could leave London and resettle in the EU.

True

Peripheral nations now constitute a majority in the ITU.

True

Saudi owned Al Arabiya is the main competition in the media wars.

True

Ted Turner lost a fortune when Time Warner merged with AOL.

True

The Bush administration did not like Al-Jazeera because they reported heavily on the civilian consequences of Afghanistan and Iraq.

True

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) aims to bring more digital inclusion and the expansion of broadband access. It leads discussions between the core and periphery nations.

True

The OECD is engaged in research to develop international economic and social policy.

True

The US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Syria conducted air and artillery strikes recently against pro-regime forces in Syria.

True

CNN's major competition is Al-Jazeera.

False

The ITU holds major global conferences which look at:

- Global technical standards - The assignment of worldwide frequencies from the electromagnetic spectrum - To review and amend international radio regulations

In 1996, Al Jazeera became the arabic region's first all-news satellite channel.

True

Decolonization and the expansion of the global communication industry resulted in an increase of access to non-Western culture across the world.

False

Washington's Voice of America [VOA], is prohibited from broadcasting within the United States under the ________ Act.

1948 Smith-Mundt

CNN changed the global format to:

24 hour news broadcasting

Despite a few disagreements, Western and developing world positions on NWICO were ultimately complementary and easily reconciled.

False

Increasing global interdependence since the 1990s is mainly the result of:

An expanding global economy

Before Al-Jazeera became the channel to hate by Western media and governments it was similarly disliked by

Arab regimes

The United Kingdom's major broadcasting network, which has been covering global events for decades is:

British Broadcasting Corporation

During the first Gulf War, CNN was the only global agency granted permission to broadcast live from Baghdad.

False

Latin American newspapers are still a substantially growing market.

True

The bulk of the benefits from aid and treaties tend to go to which of the following?

Core nations

Latin American media is characterized by the prevalence of:

Correct The Spanish language and telenovelas

One research tradition, structuralism, contends the central finding that an exporting corporation establishes ground rules in such a way that the peripheral nations are at a structural disadvantage from the start. Which of the following terms best fits this statement?

Cultural imperialism

What is the concept that attempts to deal with the needs, positive strengths and aspirations of journalistic endeavors in the peripheral regions?

Development journalism

During the 1950s and 1960s, the United States took an insular stance in regards to international communication.

FALSE

NWICO's ultimate goal was a restructured system of media and telecommunication priorities in order for Western nations to maintain influence over international media, information, economic, cultural, and political systems.

FALSE

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is likely to win the presidential election in Russia this year as incumbent Vladimir Putin cannot run again due to term limits prescribed by the Russian constitution.

FALSE

Al-Jazeera America has been able to establish a news channel with an Arab perspective in the United States.

False

Al-Jazeera refused to air Bin Laden's tapes because they were inflammatory to the Arab people.

False

Who is Carles Puigdemont?

Former Catalan President

Euronews is headquartered in _____ and broadcasts television news in eight languages.

France

Deutsche Welle, a major online and worldwide radio and television broadcaster, is stationed in:

Germany

In order to gain a more balanced flow of information, peripheral regions have called for

Government control of the media Licensing of reporters Limited reporter access to events ***All of the answers are correct.

Who is Viktor Orban?

Hungarian Prime Minister

______________ oversees the assignment of domain names and internet protocols.

ICANN

The primary global telecommunication agency is which of the following?

ITU

The success of the BBC is due to all but

Incredibly high price of advertising for a single minute

According to the book, the present era is known as the:

Information Age

The ITU's forerunner was the __________

International Telegraph Union

Which of these refers to the cultural, economic, political, social, and technical analysis of communication patterns and effects across and between nation-states?

International communication

Which of the following is not a characteristic of development journalism?

It is favored by core nations

Who did President Trump select as his new national security adviser?

John Bolton

Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of leader Kim Jong Un, met with President Moon Jae-in at South Korea's presidential palace.

True

The popularity of Arab blogs, 40,000 reported in 2009, is partially due to

Lack of media freedom

From 1985 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the USSR dominated discussions within UNESCO.

True

All Arab television stations and most radio stations are owned by

National Governments

The phenomenon in which large numbers of foreign correspondents descent by the planeload on international scenes of conflict or natural disasters is referred to as what?

Parachute journalism

Why did several countries recently expel Russian diplomats?

Skripal case

Pressure created by the CNN Effect forced US and British Administrations to respond to which international conflict?

Somalia Crisis

What are telenovelas?

Spanish soap operas

In 1978, M'Bow, Director-General of the General Assembly, announced the framework for UNESCO's future agenda. For many Western delegates, the issue boiled down to one of:

State control over the mass media

After World War II, it was assumed that as the gross national product increased, so too would the development of communication in peripheral and semiperipheral nations.

TRUE

During the 1980s, Modernization theory came under heavy fire with critics claiming that it had failed to produce positive economic results in the Third World

TRUE

Global broadcasting like CNN and the BBC could not exist without the global telecommunication system and without the international technical transmission infrastructure.

TRUE

Multination communications conglomerates and global advertisers are all based in core nations.

TRUE

Snapchat introduced new updates that separates the content from friends and the media. Snapchat's daily active users rose to 187 million from 178 million in the previous three months

TRUE

The Trump Administration has recently made the controversial move to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of IsraeL

TRUE

The economic growth model assumes development to be irreversible, like biological evolution.

TRUE

The real goal of the New International Economic Order was to shift international power from core nations to a loose coalition of peripheral regions, OPEC regions, non-aligned nations and socialist countries.

TRUE

Which of the following is not a reason why many media corporations based in Europe and North America have reduced the number of reporters in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Tension between the cultures

The first war correspondent emerged during:

The Crimean War

Arab media was the mouth piece of governments, tame political parties, or regime friends until ...

The Emir of Qatar fronted the money for an all Arab news station

From which of the following did the WTO originate?

The GATT

International Communication shifted dramatically with what historical events?

The fall of the Soviet Union and 9/11

Scholars have speculated that modernization will lead to what, where communication transports information as easily around the corner as around the world?

The global village

What best describes the lack of credibility to Arab journalism is

The priority is the safety and support of the home country

The Emir of Qatar launched Al-Jazeera for what reason?

To make Qatar a major player in the region

A defining characteristic of the peripheral zone is the agrarian nature of its economies.

True

Al-Jazeera's original news team was almost all veterans of the BBC's Arabic TV service.

True

All core nations have the latest in communication technologies, while peripheral nations have few computes, cable systems, or digital services.

True

BBC and CNN are the two global all news stations.

True

Before their Gulf War coverage, CNN was once lampooned by rivals as the "Chicken Noodle News."

True

CNN managed to make niche television a global phenomenon.

True

Core nations need to pay more attention to ITU issues and concerns.

True

Electronic colonialism is a theoretical construct that deals with the dependent relationship of poorer regions on post-industrial nations caused and established by the importation of communication hardware and foreign-produced software, along with engineers, technicians, and related information protocols

True

French President Emmanuel Macron told the world's business elite at a meeting in Switzerland that France was back as a European powerhouse under his reformist government.

True

The United States and North Korea have been holding secret talks to prepare for a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un.

True

The Western core-based press was against NWICO because it considered that it supported a non-free press philosophy and some type of government role.

True

The establishment of ground rules by exporting corporations in such a way that the peripheral nations are at a structural disadvantage from the start is a crucial process within world systems theory.

True

The global telecommunication system is the central nervous system of the global economy.

True

The popularity of Arab TV is because Arabs are tired of seeing their region from a Western point of view.

True

Western style journalism upsets Arab countries because it reports news the government/regimes would rather were not reported.

True

What stories CNN focuses on is called the CNN Effect or CNN Factor.

True

While once a power house, budget cuts and management changes have caused CNN's market share to fall behind Fox News.

True

A new pressure group emerged during the non-aligned movement. During a summit meeting in 1973, participating nations acknowledged their desire to develop a unique foreign-policy stance independent of both the United States and:

USSR

Which of these nations have at one time withdrawn from UNESCO?

United Kingdom

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was established immediately following __________.

WWII

What does Cambridge Analytica focus on?

elections consultancy

What theory states that global economic expansion takes place from a relatively small group of core-zone nation-states out to two other zones of nation-states, these being in the semi-peripheral and peripheral zones?

World System Theory

Who is the current president of China?

Xi Jinping

Fox News is successfully catering to the __________

right of center audience